Composer Ellie Wilson creates a music project titled "Moth X Human" that centers around moths, acknowledging their underappreciated contributions. Collaborating with scientists from the U.K. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, she utilized data on moth movements recorded at a nature reserve. Each of the 80 identified species was given distinct musical sounds, with notable examples like the elephant hawk-moth receiving a prominent synth sound. The piece unfolds as an interspecies dialogue between the melodies created by moths and human musicians.
I really wanted to make something that was partly created by the insects themselves. That was really important to me.
The scientists shared their data with the composer, who then assigned each species its own distinct musical sound.
So the elephant hawk-moth, for example, is a beautiful pink and brown moth. I gave that a nice big kind of synth-y sound that's very prominent in the piece.
So it ends up being a kind of interspecies dialogue to a certain degree, where we're actually sort of batting these little melodies back and forth between what the moths have created and what the humans have created as well.
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