BOUGENE is a sound journey in five acts — a ritual told almost without words, through noise, timbre, and the breath of space.
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L I S T E N
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F E E L
From the corpse of a bull, a swarm of bees; from silence, a symphony. BOUGENE is a sonic ritual that cultivates life from decay, weaving a mythos of transformation through resonance and the charged stillness between vibrations.
The work reimagines the ancient Bugonia myth, as told by the Roman poet Virgil in the fourth book of the Georgics — the miraculous birth of bees from the decaying flesh of sacrificed bulls. This grotesque yet radiant image of regeneration through death became the conceptual heart of the project.
R E A D
A 24-page handcrafted booklet was designed as a tactile companion — containing illustrations, diagrams, and fragments from the Georgics. Alongside these visual and textual elements, it includes annotations and symbolic graphics that expand the project’s intricate narrative framework.
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W A T C H
Five tracks. Five sigils. Five diagrams
BOUGENE is a digital-age Gesamtkunstwerk — five sonic invocations, each with its own composition, sigil, and diagram. This fusion of sound design, illustration, and performative gesture forms the prototype and aesthetic nucleus of an experimental game in development for A MAZE Festival 2026 — a ritual in audiovisual form, exploring sound as a medium of metamorphosis and rebirth.
P A R T • I
Praxis A • Prologos / Parodos • Lament after Sacrilege / Invocation of the Nymphs (Miasmos)
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P A R T • II
Praxis B • Epeisodion • Consecration of the Four Altars (Suovetaurilia)
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P A R T • III
Praxis Γ • Kathodos • Katabasis into the Underworld (Taurobolium)
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P A R T • IV
Praxis Δ • Anagnorisis • The Capture and Unveiling of Proteus (Hecatomb)
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P A R T • V
Praxis E • Exodos • Regeneration and Sacrifice (Bugonia)
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I M M E R S E
The complete 11-minute piece is available to listen to on YouTube:
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E M E R G E
Download EP and Booklet on Itch.Io
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In its echoes, BOUGENE leaves an open door — toward the game yet to come, and the world still forming beyond the hum of sound.
The ritual is not over — more will unfold soon.
