HIVE Choir

14/02/2026

14/02/2026

Listen to your heart 🫀👂 Happy Valentines from HIVE 💖 come hear our hearts at our next concert at …

HIVE Choir : Experimental Medicine x Experimental Music 🦠🎶

Thu 19 Feb 7.30pm

HIVE Choir return to Northern Ireland Science Festival this February! This year the vocal ensemble exploring cutting-edge medical research through avant-garde song.

In collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast’s Wellcome-Wolfson Institute of Experimental Medicine, HIVE will perform brand new music inspired by trailblazing research in immunology, infection, respiratory, vision, and vascular medicine.

Experience their improvised, electronic-enhanced songs in the immersive Sonic Lab audio theatre for a unique learning experience.

🎟️ Book at NISF website

13/02/2026

Limited run of A3 posters for next Thursday’s concert ♥️

HIVE Choir : Experimental Medicine x Experimental Music 🦠🎶

Thu 26 Feb 7.30pm

HIVE Choir return to Northern Ireland Science Festival this February! This year the vocal ensemble exploring cutting-edge medical research through avant-garde song.

In collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast’s Wellcome-Wolfson Institute of Experimental Medicine, HIVE will perform brand new music inspired by trailblazing research in immunology, infection, respiratory, vision, and vascular medicine.

Experience their improvised, electronic-enhanced songs in the immersive Sonic Lab audio theatre for a unique learning experience.

🎟️ Book at NISF website

🔬 Also check out other events by Wellcome-Wolfson Institute at the NISF website, including tours of their facilities

06/02/2026

HIVE Choir : Experimental Medicine x Experimental Music 🦠🎶

HIVE Choir return to Northern Ireland Science Festival this February! This year the vocal ensemble exploring cutting-edge medical research through avant-garde song.

In collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast’s Wellcome-Wolfson Institute of Experimental Medicine, HIVE will perform brand new music inspired by trailblazing research in immunology, infection, respiratory, vision, and vascular medicine.

Experience their improvised, electronic-enhanced songs in the immersive Sonic Lab audio theatre for a unique learning experience.

🎟️ Book at NISF website

🔬 Also check out other events by Wellcome-Wolfson Institute at the NISF website, including tours of their facilities

16/05/2025

HIVE reunion at Rhubarb Cottage 🏡

31/03/2025

HIVE perform live and premiere new film at REACH 25 - April 2 🎶

Swipe for rehearsal pics and directions to the venue 👉

‘Éacht Loch nEathach - Lough Neagh Lament’ 🦢

📆 Wed 2 Apr 1pm - 2:15pm
📍CaptureLab, University Square Mews, Belfast
🎟️ Free - link in bio

‘Éacht Loch nEathach - Lough Neagh Lament’ is an immersive audiovisual piece that documents HIVE Choir’s site-specific performance at Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles and a site of recent ecological controversy.

The lake, once a source of cleansing and renewal in Celtic mythology, is now in need of intervention.  Decades of industrialisation have led to toxic pollutants spreading across and below the surface.  

HIVE Choir lament the lough, performing cleansing rituals and improvised songs that draw on traditional Irish melodies, folklore and pagan practices. Their actions and voices are dispersed around the immersive screen and spatial audio soundscape mixed with natural soundscapes in a hallucinatory mediation of the lake’s past, present and future. HIVE Choir is an experimental vocal ensemble based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast. 

The performance will be followed by a panel discussion titled, ‘Lough Neagh - what to do?’





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28/03/2025

HIVE perform live and premiere new film at REACH 25 - April 2 🎶

‘Éacht Loch nEathach - Lough Neagh Lament’ 🦢

📆 Wed 2 Apr 1pm - 2:15pm
📍CaptureLab, University Square Mews, Belfast
🎟️ Free - link in bio

‘Éacht Loch nEathach - Lough Neagh Lament’ is an immersive audiovisual piece that documents HIVE Choir’s site-specific performance at Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles and a site of recent ecological controversy.

The lake, once a source of cleansing and renewal in Celtic mythology, is now in need of intervention.  Decades of industrialisation have led to toxic pollutants spreading across and below the surface.  

HIVE Choir lament the lough, performing cleansing rituals and improvised songs that draw on traditional Irish melodies, folklore and pagan practices. Their actions and voices are dispersed around the immersive screen and spatial audio soundscape mixed with natural soundscapes in a hallucinatory mediation of the lake’s past, present and future. HIVE Choir is an experimental vocal ensemble based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast. 

The performance will be followed by a panel discussion titled, ‘Lough Neagh - what to do?’

23/02/2025

HIVE Choir at Seamus Heaney Homeplace for NI Science Festival 2025

HIVE premiered ‘The Bog’ a concert of original songs about boglands responding to scientific research and literature about bogs 💚

Featuring collaborations with .gooch .leahy & as well as responses to Seamus Heaney poems ‘Boglands’ and ‘The Bog Queen’.







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08/02/2025

Hive Choir presents: ‘The Bog!’
20th February 2025 8pm

In association with the NI Science Festival

HIVE Choir will kick off a special weekend of events at HomePlace with our annual ‘HIVEsplaining’ concert, where we explain a scientific topic through song. In previous years, we have ‘hivesplained’ audiology, ornithology, oceanography, and human growth. This year we take on the Bog!

The concert will premiere a slew of new original songs about Irish boglands. Together, we will navigate the morass of historical and mythological interpretations of bogs and peatlands, as well as the latest scientific findings that reveal the ecological importance of bogs.

Book your tickets at NI Science Festival or HomePlace website

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01/10/2024

HIVE have been thrilled to welcome Robbie Blake as conductor and performer for our choral AI performances. Robbie leads Tonnta and does amazing music and movement work across Ireland and beyond 🎶 ( )

HIVE are one of fifteen choirs train a new choral AI model for ‘The Call’ exhibition by Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Serpentine Galleries London (Oct ‘24-Feb ‘25).

📸Here’s some pics from our session recording the AI hymnals at the Harty Room, Queen’s University Belfast.

🗣️ HIVE perform at the exhibition launch 3 October 2024

HIVE recording features .wright .artist

Big thanks to for getting us involved in the project and coming to Belfast to record us 💚

01/10/2024

One of our wildest recording setups yet 🤯 Ambisonic microphone, four spaced room mics plus eight headset mics for soloists 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

HIVE are one of fifteen choirs train a new choral AI model for ‘The Call’ exhibition by Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Serpentine Galleries London (Oct ‘24-Feb ‘25).

📸Here’s some pics from our session recording the AI hymnals at the Harty Room, Queen’s University Belfast.

🗣️ HIVE perform at the exhibition launch 3 October 2024

HIVE recording features .wright .artist

Big thanks to for getting us involved in the project and coming to Belfast to record us 💚