- Composer / Sound Artist
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Fugue in B-Flat

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Fugue in B-Flat

by Jessica Segall and 30,000 bees

The exhibition Zu Summen is based on Fugue on B Flat which started as an interspecies sculpture.

In 2016, Jessica Segall was commissioned to make a sculpture for the 30th anniversary of Socrates Sculpture Park. Celebrating the recent legalization of beekeeping in New York City, Segall colonized a grand piano with honeybees. A piezo mic both amplified the sounds of the hive for visitors in the park and recorded the sounds transcribed in the scores for performance in this exhibition. The sounds you will hear are a combination of a natural system of logic and survival within a man-made system or order and harmony. A single piano will attempt to reinterpret the bee's audible lives in a score written for piano by 30,000 honeybees.

Fugue in B-Flat premiered by Yiannis Loukos in Scope BLN , on May 2023. The piece in based on the written score of Jessica Segall. Record in UDK studios, Berlin, May 2023