My name is Dickon Stone. I am a British artist based in Berlin.
Whilst using moths to sequence beats in the early stages of another project (http://www.bugboxdrummachine.com), I found myself so inspired by the process of working in collaboration with insects that I decided it might be fascinating to enlist their involvement in the making of a melodic element to stand alongside the moth-led rhythms.
This blog recounts the journey I undertook in attempting to do so. From teaming up with the Berlin Summt biodiversity initiative and a portion of Berlin's bee keeping community, to learning to keep bees myself and customising a traditional Indian sitar to accommodate them and take recordings.
Saturday 16 January 2016
A TRAGEDY OF MY OWN
Quite tragically, during a weekend in June 2011, vandals broke into the space where the sitar (and the bees that lived within it) were kept and destroyed the project apparatus before recording was finalised. Below is a video documenting my return to the site.
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