Digital Audio AlbumHive / Peggy Polias.
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Work | Composer | Performers | Duration | |
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Hive (2016) — trios: clarinet, piano, viola with pre-recorded sound | Peggy Polias | The Nano Symphony | 37 mins, 49 sec. |
Product details
Hive takes a tour around a beehive and honeybee colony to explore
some of the behaviours and activities of bees. The question is
not so much "What do bees do all day?" but "What can we find in
the activities of bees to learn more about ourselves?"
In recent years I found myself stumbling upon news of Colony
Collapse Disorder, an eerie and initially inexplicable phenomenon
that kept haunting my feed as a reminder that the environment is
very fragile, and the loss of something so small as bees could
have huge and devastating effects on food supply for people. I
started to read a little about bees, and while I'm just
scratching the surface, the information I discovered about roles
and social structures in the colony, gender and genetics, and
about activities such as "dances" and the building of honeycomb,
were fascinating and profoundly inspiring.
The theme wove itself organically into the activities around it:
chatting with Neil and Catherine about the amazing properties of
honey from the Greek island of Ikaria; the chance to finally
collaborate with my husband Kieren Paynter, an artist (oil
painter) who has been painting bees for many years, and who has
created the cover image for this album recording; watching TED
videos with our four-year-old daughter who learnt about the
lifecycle of the bee at daycare.
Hive is in 13 movements, including solos and duos as well as
electronics only, and each movement hones in on an aspect of the
colony or the hive, but also departing from this core to reflect
on migration, heritage and lineage, community, socioeconomic
class, geometry, serialism and the classical tradition of the
cl/vla/pno trio format.
Duration: 38 min.
1. Honeycomb I -- 2. Queen Bee -- 3. Drone Bees -- 4. Worker Bees -- 5. ElectroSwarm I -- 6. Melissa -- 7. Colony -- 8. Buzzing -- 9. ElectroSwarm II -- 10. Drones and Workers -- 11. Queen and Drones -- 12. Queen and Workers -- 13.Honeycomb II.
Related products
Parts: Hive : for clarinet, viola, piano & electronics / Peggy Polias.
Score: Hive : for clarinet, viola, piano & electronics / Peggy Polias.
Score [ePDF]: Hive : for clarinet, viola, piano & electronics [eScore] / Peggy Polias.
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