Audio of crickets slowed down.

[The Wolf]

So there is an explanation in the audio clip, but basically a crickets life cycle is a certain percentage of a human life cycle. If you slow down the crickets song by that percentage, you'll be amazed at what you hear.

Click the link to hear
http://soundcloud.com/acornavi/robert-wilson-crickets-audio

[FD22]

:whoa that's pretty sweet!

[Mitchell3]

Its cool but its good they don't actually sound like that to us as that would have driven me insane by now. Could you imagine trying to sleep with that going on outside? :chuckle

[Cab0oze]

Seems like it might not be entirely legit, but interesting anyhow.


Nonetheless, even though the original recording may have featured nothing other than the sounds of crickets chirping, exactly what was done to those sounds to create the finished piece remains a subject of contention. Critics contend that Wilson didn't simply slow down a continuous recording of crickets chirping; they interpret his statement that he "slowed down this recording to various levels" and Bonnie Joe Hunt's reference to Wilson's "lowering the pitch" several times to mean that he used multiple recordings of crickets, each slowed down by a different amount to produce a specific pitch, and layered them to create a melodic effect sounding like a "well-trained church choir."
Honestly (since you can tell he already layered the slowed down version over normal chirping) it does seem like a pretty reasonable conclusion.

[The Wolf]

I saw that but snopes is not shy about throwing flags.

Even if it's fake (not confirmed either way, and the clip is years old), the harmonies exist without the melody.
Another interesting thought is that the clip is from 1992, which means it's almost certainly an analog recording. This makes pitch manipulation much more difficult.

Obviously I'm not defending it to the death haha, but it's not just as simple as pushing a slider on ProTools.

[peterm15]

There is for sure beautiful sounds that come from crix. But not to that extent.

How do I know. Between my old work and home I delbt with over a million a week. Slept with 10k of them in my room.

Also. It bothers me that the picture of the cricket isnt a cricket but a grasshopper.

Id also be interested to know which species was recorder. They all make different sounds.

[Jackal]

There is for sure beautiful sounds that come from crix. But not to that extent.

How do I know. Between my old work and home I delbt with over a million a week. Slept with 10k of them in my room.

Also. It bothers me that the picture of the cricket isnt a cricket but a grasshopper.

Id also be interested to know which species was recorder. They all make different sounds.

Bro you know your crickets. Impressed. Lol.
I agree with you that it's not to that extent. Some kind of layering and pitch manipulation but I do believe that it is the sound of crickets. But what do I know. Never slept with even one of them in my room or anywhere for that matter. (You should have also posted this information on that other thread.)

[peterm15]

There is no doubt that its crickets but I doubt that they are your typical brown/black house cricket. ( Acheta domestica)

The chirps actually sound to long and smooth to be your typical European cricket (I forget the Latin but they were heavily used as feeders a couple years back during the epidemic.)

I'm guessing these sounds come from one of the larger species. Some get larger the a beer bottle.

And yes. I know far to much about crickets.