Apple Music to provide musical curation for the 2016 Met exhibition

At the pinnacle of creativity and fashion stands the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will receive musical curation from Apple Music for the upcoming exhibition 'Manus x Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology'. With support from Anna Wintour and Met art director Thomas Campbell, the tech conglomerate has chosen Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports' as the soundtrack for the presentation to celebrate the fusion of machinery and digital development in design and the fashion world.

The May 5 to August 14 exhibition will showcase over 100 pieces from the last 135 years and explore the evolution of clothing and textile design in parallel to the emergence of technology and the possibility of mass production.

Electronic advancements like wearable tech, 3D printing and even the modern sewing machine have allowed the fashion realm to grow exponentially. The 'Manus x Machina' exhibition will face topics that intertwine between technology, fashion and culture on the larger scale.

'Music for Airports' has been dubbed the perfect complement to the exhibition with its analog and electronic components working in tandem with head curator Andrew Bolton's strictly selected series. The ambient album was one of the first ever to be highlighted on Apple's Beats 1 Radio and was also played during Zane Lowe's debut mix for the brand's radio series.

The calming track list will play entirely throughout the Met's highly anticipated range -- a powerful companion to the presentation's endless display of embroidery, feather-work, lacework, embellishments, structural piecing, laser cuts, perforation and more. Apple Music will be sponsoring this year's famed Met Gala.

Learn more about the Met's 'Manus x Machine: Fashion in the Age of Technology' here.

[Via: Mashable]

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