Performance

Wolfgang Buttress curates a site specific performance at Coventry Cathedral on Saturday 7th October 2017.  Music ensemble BE will perform a unique soundscape that features the live-streamed sound of 50,000 bees from a hive within the Cathedral grounds alongside an inclusive choir developed specifically for the evening.

BE will perform their critically acclaimed album ONE; a constantly changing and evolving multi-sensory symphony - a dialogue between bee and human. An integral part of the performance will be hosted by a bespoke community choir engineered by the Pod's Collective//Pod, an artist collective derived by members with lived experience of mental ill health.  The Pod is Coventry City Council's award winning mental health resource and creative hub.  

Acclaimed perfumers Haeckels have created a bespoke site-specific scent for the evening, which is derived from local botanicals and the essential oils from a newly installed bee hive in the Cathedral.

BE is the collective name for the musicians who recorded the soundscape for Wolfgang Buttress’s multi-award-winning sculpture The Hive which is currently sited at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Hive seeks to highlight the importance of the honey bee in our food chain and their plight as a species.

BE have created critically acclaimed sell-out performances at Glastonbury, Blue Dot, Caught by the River Thames, End of the Road festivals, St Mary’s Church in Nottingham and inside the Hive at Kew. Tim Jonze, The Guardian music editor, voted BE one of his top five gigs of last year. The soundscape ONE was voted as one of the best albums of 2016 by Rough Trade, The Guardian and The Quietus.

Images: Wolfgang Buttress

Performance date: 7th October 2017