Nature reserve’s moths help composer make new music

Music that explores declining biodiversity has been created using the activity of 80 species of moth during an evening at a nature reserve.

Scientists at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology collected data on the moths at Parsonage Down Nature Reserve, near Salisbury, in Wiltshire, and shared it with professional musician Ellie Wilson.

“I assigned sounds to the individual species of moth,” explained Ms Wilson, from London. “As that moth appeared that evening, you hear a sound.”

Premieres of the 12-minute piece, called Moth x Human and which is…