Acid Springfield & Honey Fingers: Soft Vibrations - Bee Music

Soft Vibrations album is out Friday 1st December 2023.
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 music will reflect this and be more stable and placid. When the colony is lively, so too is the music, constantly mutating and shifting.
The result is an ever evolving piece that directly correlates to the daily life of the hive; Human-Honeybee symbiosis via sound experimentation.
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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 and Apis Mellifera Superorganism
Videography: Sarah Pannell & Ivan Mašić
Editing: Sarah Pannell
Recording & Mixing: Ben Mackie
Voiceover: Nic Dowse & Ben Mackie
Mastering: Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering, New York
Color: Chiara Cope
Design: Gemma Mahoney
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.