This short documentary is a profile of Bioni Samp, an electronic musician and long-time beekeeper.
The video looks at the Samp’s passion for cross-pollination of electronic music and beekeeping. He uses DIY gear to record bee sounds, sample them and manipulate the sounds to create a unique style of electronic music.
In the video, Bioni Samp plays the following custom instruments:
Hive Synthesiser (6 oscillator prototype) Baby Bee Synth, The Bela Bee (with partial / samples taken from field recordings from two beehives) Binaural Beeframe EMF Detector, Electronic Beesmoker, Single Cell Synth, Hex Mixer, Ableton Max For Live, Beequencer, Honey Taster Resonance Detector, Beehive Field Recordings.
I think it’s great, really nice idea.
If you’re going to dance to it make sure you watch your step, lest your B-natural become a B-flat.
Way cool indeed
Looks like a midlife crisis.
Do you hear a buzzing sound? Could it bee a grounding issue?
Wasp are you talking about?
That’s sure a new take on found sounds! I’d love to hear what he could do with a decent hardware sampler that would fit his personal OS, like a Korg MicroSampler. No computer needed and a fair amount of stretching capabilities.
bees are not here for us to use for our own purposes. They are here for their own purposes.