This work is based on excerpts from Canadian poet Di Brandt’s poem, Interspecies Communication. The poem celebrates the life of bees with its lyrical language while pointing to the dangers pesticides pose to their survival. The musical setting of the poem emphasizes a playful and sensuous quality of the poem, both for voice and violin and the electronic evocation of swarms and honey-making.

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