tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67865919929213035312024-02-20T18:18:27.791-08:00Flowers for Disappearing Beeslet's make music for them togethersubtlebeinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17767040731526579233noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786591992921303531.post-87962859442819987472013-01-18T11:57:00.001-08:002013-01-18T11:57:17.459-08:00New Blogs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Please come visit my new blogs:<br />
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<a href="http://ammasdaughter.com/">http://ammasdaughter.com</a> - blissful and learning experiences with Amma<br />
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<a href="http://subtlebeing.com/">http://subtlebeing.com</a> - experiences of epilepsy through art and music</div>subtlebeinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17767040731526579233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786591992921303531.post-39176806275059143752012-09-18T13:46:00.003-07:002012-09-18T13:47:15.985-07:00i'm alivei'm here! i promise. i've been quiet lately because in the spring learned i have to go for brain surgery. hopefully it will cure my epilepsy. i'm going in october 15th.<br />
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in the meantime, i'm still listening. :) bee stories, please! the music is underway....subtlebeinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17767040731526579233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786591992921303531.post-28415318221233114072012-04-25T16:56:00.000-07:002012-04-25T16:56:09.931-07:00Death of a Colony<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What happens when bees and all other stinging insects are weirdly attracted to you? Marie tells us about her husband's plight! Share your bee stories too and they may end up in a track for our honey-making friends: <a href="http://subtlebeing.blogspot.ca/2012/03/call-for-voices.html">call for voices</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Running around with bees in the clover, trying to copy their actions.... Natasha remembers playing with them as a child. What's your story? <a href="http://subtlebeing.blogspot.ca/2012/03/call-for-voices.html">Tell us</a> :)</span><br />
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The first story about bees to arrive in the subtlebeing inbox comes from the amazing and talented Mr. Rahul Nair in Pickering, Ontario. I hope you'll tell us your tale about bees too. Find out how <a href="http://subtlebeing.blogspot.com/2012/03/call-for-voices.html">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><i>Bee Friend.</i> This bee landed on my chest one afternoon and stayed there for about twenty minutes while we were tending the hives at the <a href="http://amritabees.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Amma Canada Centre</a>.</td></tr>
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I hope you’ll help me with my music project for the bees! It’s
going to combine my pursuits as a radio documentary maker, an audio artist and
a beekeeper. I want to make electronic music that tells their story.</div>
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We have known for a while now that bees around the world are
mysteriously disappearing. In March 2011, the United Nations issued an <a href="http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=664&ArticleID=6923" target="_blank">official warning</a>.
Honey is not the only thing that will go with them. Bees and other pollinators
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In Victorian times, flowers had different meanings and they
weren’t all love and beauty. A red columbine stood for anxiety. A yellow
carnation was disappointment and rejection. A pink camellia represented
longing. A red daisy indicated that the beauty was unknown to the possessor
(that one is my favourite). Each song will select one flower and its meaning
and tell that aspect of the bees’ story.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">This is where you come in.</b> I want to mix in human voices
speaking to the bees. I’m hoping you will email me short audio files (mp3, wav,
aiff, aac (.m4a), mpeg-4) that contain different messages for and about the
bees. Video files are fine too, i.e. quick ones recorded with a smart phone.</div>
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Here are some questions you could answer:</div>
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do you personally feel about bees? It’s okay if you’re afraid of them or don’t
like them….</li>
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you ever had a closeup encounter with a bee or bees?</li>
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do you think it would be like to see the world through a bee’s eyes?</li>
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The address is <b>subtlebeing
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Thank you for your help. I look forward to hearing what you
have to say. In the meantime, I’m taking singing lessons. :D</div>
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I lay this project at the feet of my beloved Guru, <a href="http://www.amma.org/" target="_blank">Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi</a>.<br />
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Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu. Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu. Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu. (May all beings everywhere be happy.)</div>subtlebeinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17767040731526579233noreply@blogger.com0