“We built a recording studio for bees. A sensitive microphone, placed at the center of a wooden box, recorded the flight and activities of each bee entering the mini-studio. We recorded over 600 bees.”
– French sound artist and audio engineer
Félix Blume, on the creation of
Swarm (2021), a sound installation composed of 250 small speakers, each reproducing the sound of a flying bee [quote edited for brevity]