Tap the side of a hive and tens of thousands of bees lift their wings at once. The disturbance travels across the comb as a wave, crests, and settles into all-clear. Beekeepers call it shimmering.
Fifteen seconds of each track. Somewhere quiet, if you can. There is no hurry.
Eight tracks · 38 minutes. Previews are 15-second excerpts. All recordings © MQRI, Itoshima.
Arousal to calm, built artificially. Here, the bees completed the curve themselves. We measured the intervals and kept them.
We put microphones next to our hives in Itoshima and recorded — for months, at every hour. The waves were not the same at every hour. At dawn they came about every four seconds. Near midnight they stopped altogether.
Eight tracks follow that day.
One apiary. One subspecies.Apis cerana japonica, the native Japanese honeybee. You can name the place this sound came from. ◎ measured
Every track lists its wave interval and the frequencies used, with our reasoning. Nothing hidden. ◎ measured
We do not tell you this will heal you, or help you sleep. Solfeggio frequencies appear in the work as an intention, not as a proven effect — and we label them that way. △ intended
What we can say for certain is narrow, and true: this is a real sound, from a specific place, made by specific bees.
Each line is sixty seconds of the track, drawn from our production data. Tap a title to listen.
The interval of the wave becomes the interval of your breath. That is the whole idea.
A private page, made for you by name. Open it and one tap plays. No app. No account. No login.