Soft Vibrations
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Ambient music evokes a feeling of endlessness. As if the piece has been playing for an unknowable period of time before the song begins and will continue on into the ether once it fades out of our speakers.
This same feeling occurs when you peek into a hive and see the inner workings of a honeybee colony. You’re witnessing a moment, a snapshot of something much larger unfolding around us all the time; literally keeping life as we know it in balance.
The Soft Vibrations experiment bridges the expanding gap between man and nature by capturing a tiny segment of each of these endlessnesses occurring at once, as one.
By equipping a hive with pressure sensors that communicate the movements and vibrations of the colony to a custom-built device; Acid Springfield’s Model B modulator, we’ve enabled the bees themselves to compose extremely intricate ambient soundscapes or complex pieces of musique concrète.
Once assigned to modulate a range of sources on a synthesizer, you will quickly hear the signal path become quite involved; often to an uncontrollable point. This is because every function becomes completely interlaced with the movements of the bees rather than dependent on human control. When the colony is calm, the... more
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Originally released December 1, 2023
Soft Vibrations was compiled from a series of experiments performed live on Honey Fingers’ rooftop apiary in Ngár-Go, Naarm between February & March, 2022.
All music performed by Acid Springfield & Apis Mellifera Superorganism
Poetry Nicholas Dowse
Readings Nicholas Dowse (Vibration 1) & Despina Isopoulou (Vibration 3)
Recording & Mixing Ben Mackie
Produced by Ben Mackie & Erica Stevens
Mastering Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering, New York
Artwork Gemma Mahoney
Photography Phillip Huynh & Sarah Pannell
Soft Vibrations acknowledges the traditional owners of the land and places we live, perform and work on; the Wurundjeri People and the Boon Wurrung People. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
This same feeling occurs when you peek into a hive and see the inner workings of a honeybee colony. You’re witnessing a moment, a snapshot of something much larger unfolding around us all the time; literally keeping life as we know it in balance.
The Soft Vibrations experiment bridges the expanding gap between man and nature by capturing a tiny segment of each of these endlessnesses occurring at once, as one.
By equipping a hive with pressure sensors that communicate the movements and vibrations of the colony to a custom-built device; Acid Springfield’s Model B modulator, we’ve enabled the bees themselves to compose extremely intricate ambient soundscapes or complex pieces of musique concrète.
Once assigned to modulate a range of sources on a synthesizer, you will quickly hear the signal path become quite involved; often to an uncontrollable point. This is because every function becomes completely interlaced with the movements of the bees rather than dependent on human control. When the colony is calm, the... more
credits
Originally released December 1, 2023
Soft Vibrations was compiled from a series of experiments performed live on Honey Fingers’ rooftop apiary in Ngár-Go, Naarm between February & March, 2022.
All music performed by Acid Springfield & Apis Mellifera Superorganism
Poetry Nicholas Dowse
Readings Nicholas Dowse (Vibration 1) & Despina Isopoulou (Vibration 3)
Recording & Mixing Ben Mackie
Produced by Ben Mackie & Erica Stevens
Mastering Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering, New York
Artwork Gemma Mahoney
Photography Phillip Huynh & Sarah Pannell
Soft Vibrations acknowledges the traditional owners of the land and places we live, perform and work on; the Wurundjeri People and the Boon Wurrung People. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
