Outtakes from rehearsals and live performance from Temple Music, recorded 28 March 2017.

Temple Music 4

Temple Music 3

Temple Music 2

Temple Music 1

Long recording of improvised session with Temple Bees. Temple Music is a collaboration between honeybees and humans that investigates the sounds bees make inside a colony, and how beekeeping practices (such as smoking the bees) can generate sounds that human musicians can improvise with. Dylan Martorell (engineer, recordings + effects), Jad Choucair (bağlama), Max Shannon (guitar + original compositions), Nic Dowse (bells + bee smoker) + Apis mellifera. See website for more.

Temple Music Performance Long Version

Bee recordings

Soundtrack to Temple Film by Max Shannon.

Max Shannon Temple Soundtrack

Image credits: 
Temple Flowers Janelle Low
Open Temple: Nic Dowse

Temple Music is a collaboration between honeybees and humans that investigates the sounds bees make inside a colony, and how beekeeping practices (such as smoking the bees) can generate sounds that human musicians can improvise with. Dylan Martorell (engineer, recordings + effects), Jad Choucair (bağlama), Max Shannon (guitar + original compositions), Nic Dowse (bells + bee smoker) + Apis mellifera. See website for more.