Les quatre musiciens de Little Big étaient installés à Saint-Pétersbourg. Depuis l'attaque de l'Ukraine par la Russie, deux sont exilés à Los Angeles (les leaders du groupe, Ilya "Ilich" Prusikin et Sonya Tayurskaya), les deux autres étant restés au pays, soutenant l'agression.
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« (traduction) C'est le moment crucial de la narration de L'essaim, lorsque les abeilles doivent décider en tant que groupe où elles construiront ensemble leur nouvelle maison. Les abeilles éclaireuses recherchent de nouveaux emplacements potentiels, comme des cylindres métalliques, des conduits de ventilation, des arbres creux et d'autres cavités que l'on trouve dans un environnement urbain. Elles retournent ensuite vers le groupe d'abeilles en attente et communiquent leurs découvertes à l'aide d'une séquence de mouvements, appelée "danse de l'agitation". Chaque abeille utilise la danse pour partager des informations sur l'emplacement et la qualité de chaque site. Les abeilles qui ont observé la danse partent ensuite enquêter, reviennent et partagent leurs découvertes. Les danses concurrentes se poursuivent jusqu'à ce qu'elles parviennent à un consensus sur le meilleur site, après quoi les abeilles se déplacent en masse vers le site gagnant. »
« (texte original) This is the pivotal moment within the narrative of The Swarm, when the bees have to decide as a group where they will build their new home together. Scout bees seek out potential new locations, like metal cylinders, ventilation shafts, hollow trees, and other cavities found in an urban environment. They then return to the waiting cluster of bees and communicate their findings using a sequence of movements, called a ‘waggle dance’. Each bee uses the dance to share information on the location and quality of each site with one another. Bees who have watched the dance then go to investigate, return and share their findings. The competing dances continue until they reach a consensus on the best site, at which point, the bees move en mass to the winning site. »
Cosmo Sheldrake : « Pliocene is a song about deep time and extinction. Many of the sounds that make up the tune are recordings of animals from endangered ecosystems. The beat is primarily made using recordings of fish that the American military made during the cold war. The kick drum is an Oyster toad fish, and the snare a Buck toothed Parrot fish, both fish that are commonly found in coral reefs. And the main melodic sound is a recording of a raven recorded by the soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause in Algonquin national park. Bernie Krause has spent the last fifty years recording sounds from all over the world, many of the inhabitants of the ecosystems he has recorded are now extinct or endangered. The bass is made of a recording of a pig from a city farm in London.
I am very grateful to have worked with Orban Wallace from Gallivant films who directed this video. We filmed it the morning after England were kicked out of the World Cup, which certainly changed the tone of our day. We watched the match in a strange truck stop on the side of the motorway on the outskirts of Igualada, where the balloon convention was happening, and an hour outside of Barcelona. We were due to arrive at the field that we were going to take off from at 6 am, and awoke at 5 a.m to a big thunder storm. By the time we arrived at the field and the sun had risen the worst of the storm had passed and we had to wait a couple of hours for the last of the ominous clouds to blow away. Eventually we were given the green light and began loading the gear into the balloon. From there on everything ran fairly smoothly apart from one of the camera men who was in a different balloon crash landing into some trees on his way down with a fairly young pilot at the helm. »
