Miya Masaoka is a musician and performance artist who has worked with insects in some of her sound pieces. From 1996 to 2001, Masaoka worked on The Bee Project. She created a score that instructed how the sound in the work would be manipulated by a mixer. The sound that she applied to the score, was the buzz of 3,000 live bees in a glass beehive on the stage of the performance space. Distorting the sound of the bees in real time and projecting the result back into the room showcased the immediate power of sound work and highlighted the contrast between the wild, natural bees and the calculated, synthetic remix.
Masaoka continued to work with bees and created a short video, Adventures of the Solitary Bee. In it, the sound of bees is overlaid with a musical score written by Masaoka and narration discussing the physical and philosophical life of bees.
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