Biernes Geometri by Casper Hernández Cordes

The album Biernes Geometri (Bees’ Geometry) is a live recording of a performance by composer Casper Hernández Cordes. The event took place in August 2025 as part of the outdoor art exhibition I et landskab ("In a Landscape").

The Concept: Why "Bees" and "Geometry"?
The exhibition featured eighteen unique sculptures and artworks, each with its own narrative and aesthetic identity. This performance was conceived as a "musical commentary" on the intricate details of those works.

The primary inspiration came from the sculpture Absorbed Landscape, by Morten Plesner, which housed a live beehive. In nature, bees communicate the location of resources through a "waggle dance"—a rhythmic, geometric movement that directs the hive toward pollen.

The Performance
Adopting this natural phenomenon as a guiding principle for improvisation, the music acts as a clarinettist’s "waggle dance." Through sound, the performer indicates the direction and essence of the artworks, treating them as if they were flowers—a source of "mental nutrition" for the listener.

Each track on the album serves as a dedicated tribute or reflection on a specific work from the exhibition.

The clarinet acts as a sonic compass needle
The "Promenades" (a nod to Mussorgsky) between the 'work commentaries' are 'sonifications' of the physical movement of the clarinet, 'panning' from one sculpture to the next. Technically, I had a motion tracking device attached to the clarinet, that send a stream of numbers to the computer, reacting to the compass position of my clarinet.

When the clarinet points directly at a work, it unlocks that sculpture’s unique 'Sound Architecture'—a digital environment, based on the artwork’s proportions, materials, and geometry, which I can 'explore' using the clarinet as a controller, resulting in ever changing always unique synth sonorities and textures.

At the same time, of course, I play the clarinet, improvising my response to the soundscapes I - simultaneously - make the analog synth create..

Artistic research by Casper Hernández Cordes composing (with) human and non-human energies through electroacoustic improvisation, happenings, and scores. Based in Sorø, Denmark.

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