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Bioni Samp – Live at Digital Gardens – Amespace Huddersfield 2023

Bioni Samp played the following instruments: Hive Synthesiser (6 oscillator prototype) Baby Bee Synth, The Bela Bee (with partial / samples taken from field recordings from two beehives) Binaural Beeframe EMF Detector, Electronic Beesmoker, Honey Viscosity Synth, Single Cell Synth, Ableton Live, Allen and Heath mixer, Beequencer, Honey Taster Resonance Detector, Beehive Field Recordings, PO 33 with beehive samples. Special Thanks to Ame for organising a great weekend at Dai Hall. And good times in Huddersfield with the Amespace artists and crew….
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Will be showing a rough edit of Henry & Moor 2023 with live electronics soundtrack on Thursday 9th Nov, London. All welcome…#noisecorruption7

I’ve been making a video / installation about Henry Moor, combining, sound sculptures and video processing. It’s an immersive experience which has a live soundtrack performed next to the screen. The video has a soundtrack with VO by my cousin, field recordings from Castleford, binaural recording / processing with improvised electronic synth / bass textures.

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I am performing on the 2nd Sept.at Digital Gardens 1st-3rd Sept Huddersfield 2023

Bioni Samp – Hive Synthesis (performance, 30 minutes)
Hive Synthesis attempts to create a symbiotic frequency relationship, like pollination and nectar exchanges, beekeeper and bees. I was inspired to learn more about bee frequencies and create a work that raised awareness about bees and their increasingly fragile ecology system.


Bioni Samp – Hive Synthesis (Artist Talk)
I will explain my early beginnings with beekeeping. How I was inspired by the landscapes, wildlife and punk / electronic music in Yorkshire to become a sound artist and how I started recording bees in their hives with a specially modified beeframe with built in microphones. Originally recording bees overnight, using digital audio tape, not for creative purposes but in the hope of predicting swarming, a natural occurrence in the life cycle of bees. These beehive recordings set me off on a creative sound art journey of performance and music / video, as I filtered and processed the sounds of the beehive. Performing on stage beekeeping practices, all related to sound. I used audio software (Max MSP, Ableton etc) to process field recordings and create emulations of bee frequencies. Using partials on a open source hardware platform. I made a ‘Bela Bee Synth’ along with a ‘Beeframe EMF’ detector / recorder and a ‘Honey Viscosity Synth’ which uses honey as a organic resistor in a electrical circuit, emulating the three frequencies of each type of bee in the hive, queen, workers, and drones.

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Bioni Samp – Live at Noisemas 2022 – Iklectik Art Lab London

Bioni Samp played the following instruments: The Bela Bee (with partial / samples taken from field recordings from two beehives) Honey Taster Resonance Detector, Beehive Field Recordings via Elektron Model:Samples and PO 33. Soundcraft Mixer. Thanks to: Photographer Matt Favero / @liminalwarp Isa for great binaral engineering and everyone else from the Noisenass and Iklectik teams, other performers and the audience for their support. @iklectikartlab This event was broadcast live on Resonance Extra: https://extra.resonance.fm/ Bioni also has a track on the ‘NOISEMAS 2022’ cassette release. https://iklectik.myshopify.com/ All profits from this event and release will also be donated to BAPAM. BAPAM (the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine) provides specialist support for mental and physical health problems, working with healthcare experts who understand the unique challenges in this community. Many of the BAPAM team have a background in performance themselves. Over the past two years, the number of people seeking BAPAM’s help with mental health concerns has more than doubled. In partnership with organisations including Help Musicians, Equity, The Musicians’ Union, PPL, PRS Members’ Fund and Dance Professionals Fund, BAPAM provide essential services, including free clinical advice, counselling and psychotherapy, plus free healthy practice training and peer support to share knowledge to improve health and enjoy sustainable creative careers.

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Bee Bass Sculpture

Over a year in the making. Carved out of green Oak. Inspired by Henry Moore sculptures. Stage 1. Now completed sculpture. Stage 2. Add pickups resonators and pizos. Stage 3. Add Bela hardware / software for built in effects with sensor strips.

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bkeepr1 – ZOO M EARTH series 2020

3 Videos from lockdown streaming clips & home studio audio meditations. Made with ‘Hive Synthesiser’, OBS, binaural ambisonic recordings, PO33, MFB drums, RME, Ableton +

bkeepr1 – ZOO M EARTHx1 – Vitrine Gallery London UK & Basel Switzerland – Lockdown pressure cooker.

bkeepr1 – ZOO M EARTHx2 – STWST48X6 / ARS Electronica Linz Austria – LESS / MORE – A series of conversations with nature.

bkeepr1 – ZOO M EARTHx3 – Piksel Bergen Norway – WELLBEEING Beehouse Audio Meditations.

bkeepr1 – ZOO-M-EARTH
Lockdown pressure cooker.
Covid diary days begin with home excercise.
Followed by home cooking.
Bioni’s slow burner Haggis mix.
Birds in the trees.
The parallel world of bees.
Missing the bees.
Wild earth animals missing.
Face masks in the communal space.
I put honey in the home recipies.
RIP streetcatbob.
Tele-communication. Video phone home. Group chat.
Clear skies. Clear air. Clear roads.
Group bee stream.
How are these days bothering you?
Dancing with my self on video conferencing.

The emptiness of after streaming…