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Condo Living

by Sarah Peebles

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    This audio is from "Resonating Bodies", a series of art and community outreach projects which focus on the biodiversity of bees and other pollinators indigenous to the ecosystems of Canada and beyond (details below).
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Wild, native bees create nests within grooved blocks of wood. These condo dwellers are the last of the year's leaf cutters and other stem and cavity-nesting solitary bees to create their linear rows of brood cells. They've chosen routed blocks put out by researcher Peter Hallett at The Toronto Zoo off-site area, where they nest side by side and work alone (ah, the condo life!). A vibrational sensor and custom-made amplifier convey their nesting activities as they place leaves, mud, plant resins and pebbles (nest materials), and pollen (nest provisions). An ASMR listening experience for those who prefer their sounds quiet, subtle and crisp!

Macro videos with micro sound - Odes to Solitary Bees: resonatingbodies.wordpress.com/art/odes/.

Resonating Bodies projects, bee biology, videos: resonatingbodies.wordpress.com

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released December 28, 2020
"Condo Living" is published on by MusicWorks issue #111 with the article "Visions of Sounds: Sarah Peebles' Audio Bee Booth". Thanks to Stephen Humphrey, recording assistance, Rob Cruickshank, electronics design and fabrication, Peter Hallett and Tom Mason at the Toronto Zoo.
www.musicworks.ca/listen/musicworks-magazine-recording/musicworks-111-cd

Photo: Audio Bee Cabinet tunnel 23 at Access Alliance rooftop garden, Toronto, by Susan Frye (2017).
©2010 Sarah Peebles. All rights reserved. Peebles SOCAN for Canada / ASCAP for the World except Canada.

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Sarah Peebles Toronto, Ontario

Sarah Peebles is an installation artist, composer and music improvisor in Toronto. Her installation art with native bees is catalogued at Resonating Bodies (below). More music & sound-art:
www.sarahpeebles.net/recordings.htm

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