An Audiovisual Experience Controlled By 50,000 Honeybees

There’s a sort of ongoing symphony deep within London’s Kew Gardens. The pulsing music is at turns cheerful, thrilling, and ominous; its steady thrum soothing to the point of transcendence. Technically, it’s a virtual performance: While the show is broadcast through a giant aluminium structure, the real “musicians”—around 60,000 live honey bees—are in a wooden […]