Music Made With Bees That's Sweet Like Honey

The first 90 seconds of this song are made entirely out of bee noises. Turns out there's a whole lot of beauty lurking behind the buzz. Here's how they did it.

The Bee Project comes from Tonehammer, who recorded lots of bee sounds and modified them with tools like timefreezers, delays, filters, and glitch modules. The key is that a bee's wings flap about 200-230 times per second, giving off rich, pliable tones. Throw in a few orchestra and choral effects, and you've got one enchanting honeybee melody. [Tonehammer, Via: b3ta], Via: Gizmodo, Via: Youtube

Honey bees plot to kill a hornet

Nature at it's best. LINK: Youtube

30 vs 30,000

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A few years ago, Alex ran a post on the Japanese hornet, a particularly large and “mean flying machine.” As pointed out, the hornets prey on smaller honeybees, but can often be baked alive by a swarm. Interesting, but that’s not what happens here as 30 hornets lay waste to a colony of 30,000 bees.

Via: Digg, Via: Neatorama

Un-Bee-lieveable Artwork

This is some incredible artwork by Hilary Berseth, and a few thousand helpers…

Artists from Rodin to Warhol to Mark Kostabi have outsourced the construction of their work. Hilary Berseth goes them one better: He constructs basic frameworks of wire and wax, then lets teams of tiny yellow-and-black art fabricators finish the job. “I knew they were ordered and regimented,” the Pennsylvania artist says about his honeybees, which built the three otherworldly sculptures on view at Eleven Rivington. “I had an intuition that I’d be able to organize that, architecturally.”

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Aganetha Dyck Works With Bees To Make Art

Canadian Born Aganetha Dyck has shown her work extensively in over 30 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions across Canada and internationally since 1975. Perhaps best known for her collaborative work with live honeybees, Aganetha’s most recent practise has concentrated on placing ordinary household objects in beehives, allowing the bees to become her artistic partners by adding wax sculptures to the objects. The image to your right is part of a collaboration between Canadian artist Richard Dyck and Agnetha involving a flatbed scanner inside a beehive. Apparently the bees paint as they move relative to the scan head over the scanner bed, their images compressing and smearing anfractuously. Incidentally, sunlight is controlled with the lid of the beehive. LINK