{"id":13052,"date":"2014-04-14T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goetz-naleppa.de\/?p=13052"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:41:05","slug":"cantus-apium-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goetz-naleppa.de\/en\/cantus-apium-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Cantus Apium - 7 Variations on Virgil, for voice and 15 bees\"."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sound composition by G\u00f6tz Naleppa<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Recordings and composition: G\u00f6tz Naleppa, 2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Length: 40:12\"<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Text: Publius Vergilius Maro (\"Vergil\"), quotations from \"Georgica\", Book IV, German by Joh. Heinrich Vo\u00df<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to the beekeeper Christian Matthey, Westerwaldkreis<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The central theme of the composition is the famous Latin text by Virgil about bees from his \u201eGeorgica\u201c. The material consists of recordings of 15 bee colonies, from 7 a.m. to midday on a sunny May day in the Westerwald. The concept: text quotations (Latin and German) with non-manipulated bee sounds, chronologically over the course of the day: from early morning (few and scattered), later the lower frequencies when the drones fly, to midday (many and intense). In between, seven musical variations of \u201cbee song\u201d - i.e. bee sounds processed with extreme filters to make the \u201amusic\u2018, the song of the bees, audible. So everything you hear is generated from bee sounds, including the rhythm elements.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The main theme was \u201achaos and structure\u2018: I tried to find structures in the chaos of thousands of simultaneous sounds, to filter out frequencies, to discover rhythmic elements - to make patterns and \u201abeauty\u2018 audible. The whole piece has thus become one big crescendo - corresponding to the crescendo of the bee colonies from morning to midday: the beginning is calm and \u201aidyllic\u2018 in Virgil's sense and then increases very slowly until the bees\u201a \u2018war dances' and an end in the present time, which alludes to the worldwide endangerment of bees and thus also of mankind (G\u00f6tz Naleppa).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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GOLD AWARD<\/strong><\/a> at the New York Festivals 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

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