Live with Bioni Samp

Bioni Samp is an artist, producer / DJ and video maker. He creates experimental electronic music, live and on recordings. He also seasonally works with bees. When not beekeeping, he makes custom audio software and hardware, which he uses in creating his music and performance.

'My performance 'Hive Synthesis' attempts to create a symbiotic frequency relationship, like pollination and nectar exchanges, beekeeper and bees.

The idea is to create an audio journey which explores the sounds and frequencies inside the honey bee’s home, the beehive.

In each honey bee colony there are three types of bee. The drone, worker and queen bees, each of these have their own individual frequencies in the ranges of; low-200Hz or less, mid – 200-400 Hz and high–400+Hz, just like the earth has its own special frequency of approximately 7-9 Hz.

As an electronic music producer and seasonal beekeeper. I was inspired to learn more about bee frequencies and make a creative work that incorporated these bee frequencies in the hope of raising awareness about bees and their increasingly fragile ecology system.