
25 May 2023. I am currating a night at Ikletcik Art Lab London called Electronic Pilgrimage… ALL WELCOME…

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.
Photos: #Artbomb22
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.
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…
13/09/2020 @STADTWERKSTATT #STWST48X6 Linz Austria during #ArsElectronica20 bkeepr1 aka bioni samp – ZOO – M – EARTH – …Gespräche mit der Natur… 2020 STWST48x6 MORE LESS 48 Hours Distributing Less #moreless #DIYsynth #BeeFrequencyFarming
bkeepr1 aka bioni samp – ZOO – M – EARTH – A series of conversations with nature….
LESS: As an artist I have had to start again. bkeepr1 is a new alias for Bioni Samp in the CV age. Due to my health conditions I’m deemed vunerable to CV infections, so in the UK, I’m ‘on lockdown inside’ for a initial 12 weeks. This is my live performance, ‘diary’ of how I escaped mentally by going into the past by editing my old video and audio memories of ‘the outside’. Videos of being in remote nature spaces.
MORE: While I was editing these memories. I started to hear birds in the trees, my for the first time ever outside my London home. I also noticed that I did’nt have to take my asthma inhauler as soon as I got up. Or smell the sooty pollution coming in the open window every morning. Bees and other insects would fly in unexpectedly, not scared away by traffic noise. Nature it seemed was having a holiday in urban spaces. I discovered that it was happening all over the world due to CV. Nature it seemed was getting a pause on human encrochment. Or so i thought. But now I hear CV is being used to cover up deforestisation and resource extraction (mining) in protected areas all over the world. This is also my live performance, ‘diary’ of how I came back down to earth (after watching two ‘Super Moons’ during Lockdown). I’ve incorporate these changes into my videos and added this too. This live performance was to be streamed live but was pre-recorded due to personal reasons. Enjoy… Shown on the Main Stage at Stadwerkstatt at 11pm – Midnight.
bkeepr1 aka Bioni Samp – artist, musician, inventor, beekeeper. http://www.bionisamp.org
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, Single Cell Synth, Hex Mixer, Ableton Max For Live, Beequencer, Honey Taster Resonance Detector, Beehive Field Recordings. + My whole home studio…
Notes: In this recording the ‘Bioni Samp – Log Hive Synthesiser / Bee Canon 2020’ is modified from a synthesier which was made during an artist resdidency onboard the Eleneora, Linz harbour. Also contains field recordings and underwater recordings made around Linz harbour. During Bioni Samp BEE FREQUENCY FARMING Residency: Stadwerkstatt infoDETOX MS Eleonore, Linz Austria 2015. https://bionisamp.wordpress.com/insta… All music by Bioni Samp (c)
– beekeepr1 – ZOO-M-EARTH @beespace this was originally going to performed in #Bermonsey square #London https://www.vitrinegallery.com/exhibitions/sounding-off-2-0
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, Single Cell Synth, Hex Mixer, Ableton Max For Live, Beequencer, Honey Taster Resonance Detector, Beehive Field Recordings.
All music by Bioni Samp (c)
Special Thanks to… Video Credits: ZoominTV Holland.
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