Hive has taken place, and I enjoyed it.  A profound experience.

While nothing will be quite like listening to the piece live in the Dome itself, you can still hear the whole of the piece as streamed at Mixlr by clicking here.

Well, almost all of it - the generator ran out of juice 15 minutes before 11am on Sunday, and refilling it and then resetting the computer and interface took quite a while, so I missed the one minute silence on Remembrance Sunday.  It was quite fitting in a way for the broadcast to be silent just then.  Strange how these things work.  

Click here to hear from 11am to 2pm - this recording starts with the bugler at the Cenotaph.  The Mixlr recordings are scrollable, so you can be impatient and go straight to the top of the hours to see how the multiplied news sounds, and check how different it feels at different times of day and night.  Some hours felt very impatient to me, others like the radios just weren't bothering.  Always shifting though.  Some of the audio overlaps were astonishing.

I had a backup recorder running, so hopefully I'll be able to post up the actual 11am silence moment at some point.  Of course not all the radios were silent, but the mood changed instantly.  I have recorded all of the 24 hours of Hive at higher resolution for use in a further representations of the piece.

I was very pleased with the response to the installation.  Thanks to everyone who came by in person, particularly those that made the long trip to the North Norfolk coast, and to everyone who listened live and communicated with me while it happened.  Thanks to Sound and Music for their support with Hive, and to Henry Labouchere for giving me my personal flypast in his 1930 biplane, such a thrill I almost dropped my iPhone.  Thanks once again to Bevis Bowden for another 24 hours.  And most of all many thanks to Patrick Allen, the Friends of Langham Dome and the North Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust for making me so welcome and permitting me to install Hive in their remarkable building.