‘Tiny melodies’: musician uses moths’ flight data to compose piece about their decline | Insects

They are vibrants who went out at night, but now the mites appeared in the light of the bright day as participating founders of a new piece of music-composed using insect aviation data.

Elie Wilson author X human moth In a reserved habitat on anger in Salisbury, Wittish. She appointed each of the 80 different votes of moth, running when she landed on her screen.

About the automated melody created by the mites, it composed music for live violins, chilo, romonn, piano and combinations. An interview with Wilson and the performance of the piece will be held twice, at the South Bank Center in London on July 5 as part of every two years of music.

“I wanted to make a piece of partially created music by the insects themselves,” Wilson said. “The moths randomly created these small small melodies – small fragments and shapes that are used to composing the rest of the piece, including clicking on the body of Chilo to imitate the sound of the moth that was besieged in a lamp.”

The moth groups suffer from severe decreases all over the world due to the loss of habitats, pesticides, and the climate crisis. This has a harmful effect on the ecosystem because mites are an important nutritional source for bats, owls and birds-but also because the mites DecisiveAnd if it is still completely understood.

“Many of us do not see the moth numbers decrease because they go out at night, but they are vital to our ecosystem such as bees and butterflies,” Wilson said.

Wilson created work with the support of contemporary music in Oxford and with biological diversity scientists at the Center for Environment and Hydrology in the United Kingdom. The piece highlights the impact of the decline in UK moth groups by completing data from a different region: unilateral agricultural land cultivation with only 19 species of mites.

Wilson said: “I wanted the difference in moth groups heard,” Wilson said. “There is a lot of sound at the beginning of the piece. In the end, there is very little.”

Wilson said that the scientists who cooperated with them were excited to take their work into music. “They were trying to deliver a message about the decrease in the catastrophic mites, but they could not get traction using numbers and data,” she said. “Music is a way to reach people to understand the disaster that is revealed.”

Wilson is not the only British musician who uses nature to attract attention to climate collapse: Cosmo Sheldrake appeals to his rejection His legal attempt In order for the Ecuador Forest to be identified as a co -created song for a song written.

“The nature of the environmental crisis is rapid, striking, completely and completely urges – and natural sounds have a lot of charisma and strength – to the extent that nature -based music can reveal and communicate with the natural world more effectively and strong than that of science,” Shieldrak said.

“A lot of listening to ecosystems can be revealed,” he added. “Removing a single tree destroys the sound bar, although the forest may not look different.”

Lento Radio It recently celebrated the fifth anniversary of its founding, and the “calmness” poured from 105 locations in 26 provinces in the United Kingdom. And the UK -based design and architecture company Hydroke Studio An uninhabited island in Seoul, South Korea, converts a public park, which includes musical performances based on sound waves created by mountain terrain.

But Finland took things a step forward, and it became the first country in the world to create The official sound bar.