Hear performances from the insect community, in collaborative music commissioned by Golden Hornet and featuring composers/performers Susie Ibarra, Jeffrey Zeigler, and Graham Reynolds, bug music by naturalist and clarinetist David Rothenberg, and music titled for the oak treehopper by electric violist Martha Mooke. There's music for flies, locusts, mosquitos, beetle larvae, and army ants in Insectum, a collaboration between three musicians, composer-musicians Susie Ibarra, Jeffrey Zeigler, and Graham Reynolds, and two entomologists, Alex Wild and Jo-anne Holley at the University of Texas at Austin. The work is “a sonic exploration of the resilience and beauty of the world’s oldest living multicellular creatures: arthropods.” It’s also “a cautionary tale about how their current threatened status poses dangers for the entire global ecosystem, (Golden Hornet). Also, listen to music featuring performances from the insect community by author, naturalist and clarinetist David Rothenberg, whose book, Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise, happens to also be the title of this show. In a 2013 interview with John Schaefer, Rothenberg observes that “The background of perhaps all music in nature is the hum of these millions of species of creatures, where each one is like a tiny intelligence”, (Soundcheck, 2013). Hear a sample of his Bug Music, and a compendium of night insects from a collection called Buzz: Music in Harmony with Nature. Hear a collaborative soundscape by composer Paula Matthusen and visual and textile artist Olivia Valentine, featuring the highly-processed sounds of bobbins used during lace-making and insects captured from their Georgia location, plus live electronic music. Then, there’s music inspired by the oak treehopper by composer Martha Mooke, and her nine layers of electric viola. Plus, there's a symphony of underwater sounds, featuring tiny aquatic insect sounds, recorded in Africa and North America in a sound collage by David Dunn. - Caryn Havlik Program #4850, Bug Music (First aired 2/23/2024) ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Melolonthinae Larvae [1:00]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Fly Buzzing [3:14]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Water Strider [2:06]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Melolonthinae Larvae [2:52]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum ARTIST: David RothenbergWORK: What Makes Them Dance [6:51]RECORDING: Bug MusicSOURCE: Gruenrekorder and Terra Nova MusicINFO: http://www.davidrothenberg.net ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Giant Snail Devours Earthworm [3:19]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum ARTIST: Paula Matthusen and Olivia ValentineWORK: I 07_12_16, 4_00 pm, Rabun Gap, GA (real-time [insects, summer breeze, bobbins, feedback]) [6:51]RECORDING: Between Systems and GroundsSOURCE: paulamatthusenandoliviavalentine.bandcamp.comINFO: betweensystemsandgrounds.com ARTIST: Martha Mooke / Superfam Membracoidea CollectiveWORK: Platycotis IX [4:34]RECORDING: Buzz: Music in Harmony with NatureSOURCE/INFO: https://superfam.bandcamp.com/album/buzz-music-in-harmony-with-nature ARTIST: David DunnWORK: Chaos & The Emergent Mind of the Pond [3:33]RECORDING: Angels and InsectsSOURCE/INFO: https://daviddunn.bandcamp.com/album/angels-insects ARTIST: David Rothenberg / Superfam Membracoidea CollectiveWORK: Night Backyard Second to Last [6:37]RECORDING: Buzz: Music in Harmony with NatureSOURCE/INFO: https://superfam.bandcamp.com/album/buzz-music-in-harmony-with-nature ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Night Insects [1:13]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum
Hear performances from the insect community, in collaborative music commissioned by Golden Hornet and featuring composers/performers Susie Ibarra, Jeffrey Zeigler, and Graham Reynolds, bug music by naturalist and clarinetist David Rothenberg, and music titled for the oak treehopper by electric violist Martha Mooke.
There's music for flies, locusts, mosquitos, beetle larvae, and army ants in Insectum, a collaboration between three musicians, composer-musicians Susie Ibarra, Jeffrey Zeigler, and Graham Reynolds, and two entomologists, Alex Wild and Jo-anne Holley at the University of Texas at Austin. The work is “a sonic exploration of the resilience and beauty of the world’s oldest living multicellular creatures: arthropods.” It’s also “a cautionary tale about how their current threatened status poses dangers for the entire global ecosystem, (Golden Hornet).
Also, listen to music featuring performances from the insect community by author, naturalist and clarinetist David Rothenberg, whose book, Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise, happens to also be the title of this show. In a 2013 interview with John Schaefer, Rothenberg observes that “The background of perhaps all music in nature is the hum of these millions of species of creatures, where each one is like a tiny intelligence”, (Soundcheck, 2013). Hear a sample of his Bug Music, and a compendium of night insects from a collection called Buzz: Music in Harmony with Nature.
Hear a collaborative soundscape by composer Paula Matthusen and visual and textile artist Olivia Valentine, featuring the highly-processed sounds of bobbins used during lace-making and insects captured from their Georgia location, plus live electronic music. Then, there’s music inspired by the oak treehopper by composer Martha Mooke, and her nine layers of electric viola. Plus, there's a symphony of underwater sounds, featuring tiny aquatic insect sounds, recorded in Africa and North America in a sound collage by David Dunn. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4850, Bug Music (First aired 2/23/2024)
ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Melolonthinae Larvae [1:00]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum
ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Fly Buzzing [3:14]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum
ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Water Strider [2:06]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum
ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Melolonthinae Larvae [2:52]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum
ARTIST: David RothenbergWORK: What Makes Them Dance [6:51]RECORDING: Bug MusicSOURCE: Gruenrekorder and Terra Nova MusicINFO: http://www.davidrothenberg.net
ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Giant Snail Devours Earthworm [3:19]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum
ARTIST: Paula Matthusen and Olivia ValentineWORK: I 07_12_16, 4_00 pm, Rabun Gap, GA (real-time [insects, summer breeze, bobbins, feedback]) [6:51]RECORDING: Between Systems and GroundsSOURCE: paulamatthusenandoliviavalentine.bandcamp.comINFO: betweensystemsandgrounds.com
ARTIST: Martha Mooke / Superfam Membracoidea CollectiveWORK: Platycotis IX [4:34]RECORDING: Buzz: Music in Harmony with NatureSOURCE/INFO: https://superfam.bandcamp.com/album/buzz-music-in-harmony-with-nature
ARTIST: David DunnWORK: Chaos & The Emergent Mind of the Pond [3:33]RECORDING: Angels and InsectsSOURCE/INFO: https://daviddunn.bandcamp.com/album/angels-insects
ARTIST: David Rothenberg / Superfam Membracoidea CollectiveWORK: Night Backyard Second to Last [6:37]RECORDING: Buzz: Music in Harmony with NatureSOURCE/INFO: https://superfam.bandcamp.com/album/buzz-music-in-harmony-with-nature
ARTIST: Graham Reynolds, Jeffrey Zeigler, Susie IbarraWORK: Night Insects [1:13]RECORDING: InsectumSOURCE: Golden Hornet RecordsINFO: https://www.goldenhornet.org/insectum