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the buzz on b. use and electronic music. welcome to arts and culture german artist joe hart says he's completed the last major project of his life and if that's true it is a pretty grand farewell the 88 year old whose works rank among the most valuable in contemporary art donated a new set of abstract stained glass windows to germany's oldest abbey. it's a monumental gift of in estimable value light shines through an original work by care hard to ishtar abstract art gothic church architecture but it's not the biblical scene which is depicted. i think it's incredibly important we

don't give in to the temptation to depict god as an old man with a bushy beard and white. when gary hart was asked to create the windows he agreed immediately. the artist was not present at the opening but let it be known he is very happy with the result the artwork is based on an abstract painting from 1990 which richter processed digitally. split it up on the computer and mirrored it then marit the image over and over again here and the middle we have the progression he used as a model for the towline being the. log of poli. turning into glass is a process of translation from canvas into a very special

a tiriel the windows were created here in the studios of the whole class or have found 3 in munich various techniques were used details from the canvas version have. very different effect. but that's because we have lights a canvas image isn't backlit with glass you have a situation with different lighting conditions morning afternoon evening with the sun shining through. had already designed a church window in 2007 he made one for the cologne cathedral now there's a counterpart in total despite the fact that richter actually left the church. as this promise of eternal being present for centuries in a church so that's a different appeal than having pictures in

a museum. germany's oldest abbey in the small village of todai is now also a place of pilgrimage for lovers. and from one of the best known names in art to an artist whose real name remains unknown and it looks like for once banksy is anonymity is working against him the european union's trademark office has thrown out banks his application to register this mural of a protester throwing flowers they said if the artist wants to stop merchandisers from copying has no teeth he'll have to use copyright law like other artists banks he's avoided copyright lawsuits because they would require him to reveal his identity he's even said copyright is for losers. because the 1000 pandemic and the economic crunch are forcing fashion houses to get even more creative burberry has already switched some of its production from trench coats to

protective medical wear and now for the london fashion week the british label took to the countryside trading in their traditional runway for forest trails and an online audience designer ricardo to shoot live streams in st where heavy spring summer collection and a show choreographed by acclaimed performance artist i met him. and another designer at london fashion week isn't doing any kind of runway at all not even a hike through the woods but gareth pugh is showing his new collection at christie's auction house it's a multimedia exhibition combining fashion music and film has been called an architect and sculptor of fashion even before we meet a fashion here he is in his own words.

you'd like to see challenge that with things that don't we don't necessarily like to see down the soviets in the us drone so to speak so it's kind of like. doing something in a in a in an alternate formats than just a stand it fashion show which i sometimes equate to a tennis match to open and it's you know we need to evolve from nothing basically with the collection we've we've done a very small collection it's that in looks that we've had with 13 different trucks kind of like a visual album. so so yeah i mean it was it was super nice to be back at the stage and after the down. i realize you know working from home doesn't quite cut it so in back of the studio and happens in the folk. that's really important i made a little model and i started making this model in the studio just before because the studio down to the last. minute was stuck.

it was stuck to a mirror tile but it it's not all anymore you know that the genesis of the idea was to create something dark slaughtered on the point you know we will look in bach at the mystics all we have made and i'm not just talking about one thing in particular but think the time of reckoning for everybody where you're looking bach to walk has gone before and you're looking forwards to a time when those wrongs can be made right. this year has been so incredibly to motorists there's been so many things going on whether it's the protests in hong kong whether it's been mine in spain toned down whether it's the pandemic it's an election year in america it is it feels like the plates of the earth a kind of shifting and nobody really knows where it's going to end so yeah this project i guess is

a reaction to have enough going on around us and it's hopefully. going to leave people with a sense of hope and optimism. because we all need to bed. now if insects can be fashionable then be user totally on trend they've been featured in a gucci collection the venom is a hit in high end cosmetics and new studies show that honey actually does have some medicinal properties some musicians are also turning to be used for inspiration welcome to the world of d.j. and beekeeper b. only sam. keeping bees and working as a d.j. are normally activities that most people would see as related in any way but not for be at least his music comes from the buzzing of bees produces cool beats with

it and has a message for his listeners as being hosley of loss of a set during. or once a child by a performance rodeo piece a state could get some success speak for themselves people connect to break through the silence. the only sense of studied art and design and jam his experimental music while he was still a student he calls it insect tech just. c c uses a special software to isolate the different frequencies of the bees a mate. there are 3 types of being a high this is the queen. is the draw in the charge of their own frequency right. so the crate has a high pitch piping sound homeworkers economy midrange sound

drunk by all being asked to produce paintings so. he uses a scanner to record the sounds made by the police the frame he built is fitted with microphone use a digital recorder which can capture hours of buzzing in the be hived. being nice always tinkering with new instruments for his music once he's filled the recorders memory and the london fog me simply takes it home to his studio he analyzes the bee sounds and arranges them through various synthesizers to create a track and when you put sounds all of this they become kind of a last trick so he can mimic clue. the interface for this synthesizer is to be flying into the flower.

it's moved. around in the next the sound would. be any samples taken his sound installations all over the world for example to the author alectryon like a festival invents austria and the media ought to be an ally in fatfat poland. always takes to the stage in a beekeeper suit he wants to remain anonymous he wants the listeners to concentrate solely on the music. but this year his performance as a concert. during lockdown of luckily being able to come appear to my be is inches meditates and you know regardless of the pandemic in lockdown i receive the bees just carry on as normal and that she they're happy that

there's not as much pollution. this year. if his bees are happy being any semblance to his sounds or hopes especially with young audiences at the same time they raise awareness of the worldwide decline of the populations. the author of the novel forrest gump has died at age 77 winston groom wrote several books but he's best known for his story turned into a film by robertson backus. my mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. you never know what you're going to get the 19 line before movie forrest gump 16 oscars with tom hanks and the title we're all as a slow thinking optimist or becomes a star athlete. well that's it for this edition of arts and culture all leave you

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