[Pollinator] Fwd: stingless bees and music

[Droege, Sam]

For those looking for Bee Centric Holiday Gifts...sam


*Stingless bees and music:*

*Delicate Paths - Music for Shô* |  *たおやかな 歩 み 笙 の 音*
Sarah Peebles with Evan Parker, Nilan Perera, Suba Sankaran  *Out Now!
<http://unsounds.com/shop/delicate-paths>unsounds 42U
<http://unsounds.com/shop/delicate-paths>*

Sarah Peebles' recent explorations of the Japanese mouth-organ, the shō,
delve into the instrument's connections to ancient Asia: it's history,
evolution and present-day connections to people, habitat, animals and
culture - including connections to tropical stingless bees. The foreword
(online at unsounds 42U <http://unsounds.com/shop/delicate-paths>)
includes images
of tropical stingless bees and their resinous nests alongside the
instrument's interiour mechanism and its resinous materials.

Contemporary compositions and improvisation have become a part of The shô
repertoire since the 1960s, and its arresting pipe-organ sound has drawn
fans from around the world. The music of ‘Delicate Paths’ features acoustic
shô solos and group improvisations with Evan Parker, Nilan Perera and Suba
Sankaran, electroacoustic music and highlights unusual approaches to
recording the shô. The intimate, dry sound reflects the instrument in its
most exposed context. This release also features “Arborrations”, a short
online video by guests film makers John Creson and Adam Rosen (at
www.unsounds.com/shop/delicate-paths)

Sarah Peebles is a Toronto-based American composer, improviser and
installation artist whose distinctive approaches to sound-based art include
integrated media works involving native bees, wasps and pollination
ecology, acoustic and amplified improvisation on the shō (笙, the Japanese
mouth-organ used in gagaku), and digitally manipulated found sound,
composition and performance. Details at sarahpeebles.net and Resonating
Bodies (resonatingbodies.wordpress.com).

Distribution: Subterranean (NL) Metamkine (FR) Mandai (BE)
Goodfellas/Soundohm (IT) Shellshock (UK) Squid Co (USA) CDbaby (USA)
Canadian Music Centre (Canada). Available from www.unsounds.com

Photos: Giorgio Venturieri (bees), Rob Cruickshank (mouth-organ).



-- 
*Bees are Not Optional*

*Apes sunt et non liberum*
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