RE: [cm] A Chord of Nature

THAT is the f@#$ing coolest thing I have heard in a long time! Hats off!

Dante

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jacky_ligon@... [mailto:jacky_ligon@...]
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 11:31 PM
> To: crazy_music@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [cm] A Chord of Nature
>
>
> This evening I realized that the crickets and other insects were
> singing in a cluster at approximately around an F@ 2793.825 (concert
> pitch).
>
> So I decided to do an FFT analysis, and I found that they were
> singing the following prominent frequencies:
>
> 2806.3545
> 3695.1309
> 4939.9463
> 6855.2959
> 7479.1787
>
> Slightly sharp of concert pitch.
>
> In cents this would be the following tuning:
>
> 476.314
> 978.958
> 1546.226
> 1697.019
>
> I then wanted to hear what this would sound like in a composition, so
> I created a little piece called "Cricket Orchestra", which I have
> uploaded to the files section for your review.
>
> This is a composition where the tuning is matched to the timbre.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacky Ligon
>
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> From: <jacky_ligon@...>
> To: <crazy_music@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 8:30 PM
> Subject: [cm] A Chord of Nature
>
>
> This evening I realized that the crickets and other insects were
> singing in a cluster at approximately around an F@ 2793.825 (concert
> pitch).
>
> So I decided to do an FFT analysis, and I found that they were
> singing the following prominent frequencies:
>
> 2806.3545
> 3695.1309
> 4939.9463
> 6855.2959
> 7479.1787

Hi Jacky,

I agree with Dante that your piece based on this is cool!

I had a remarkable similar experience years ago, which I've
written about before:
/tuning/topicId_15128.html#15153

There's no way for me to be sure that the sound I heard was
coming from crickets... in fact, it was a unique sound I'd
never heard before, so I'm sure it *wasn't* the species of
crickets I've come to know and love thruout my life. But my
point is that they may not have even been insects: there was
another time when I thought I was hearing crickets and they
turned out to be frogs.

While I can remember with great clarity what that experience
in Delaware sounded like, I've tried to recreate it as a
musical fragment, but with only very limited success. If I
find my attempts at recreating it, I'll make mp3s and post them.

BTW, when we humans refer to crickets "singing", the activity
we're actually describing is the cricket rubbing its wings together.
From this interesting article
<http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0025/00482560_A.html#P5>:

>> Crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids are among the noisiest
>> and most musical of the insects. The chirp of crickets has
>> even been considered a blessing in Europe and America.
>> In his story 'The Cricket on the Hearth', Charles Dickens
>> wrote about a cricket that sings when things are going
>> smoothly and is silent in times of trouble. The Chinese,
>> who consider the cricket a creature of good omen, predict
>> good luck for the house with many crickets.
>>
>> These insects produce sound by rubbing particular parts of
>> the body against one another. In most species, only the males
>> make sound, primarily as a means of attracting mates or as
>> identification to other males. The cricket's song is produced
>> when males scrape the rough surfaces of the wing covers together.
>> Katydids and grasshoppers also use their wings to make a
>> chirruping noise. Like crickets, katydids rub their wings
>> against one another. Grasshoppers, however, usually rub a leg
>> in a sawing motion across a wing to create the sound.

Also, note this interesting synchronicity:

Just yesterday I posted a message about the Italian contrabassist
Fernando Grillo:

> From: monz <joemonz@...>
> To: <crazy_music@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 4:25 AM
> Subject: [cm] Fernando Grillo, microtonal contrabassist

His last name is the Italian word for "cricket".

:)

love / peace / harmony ...

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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Not to be outdone by Jacky's crickets, NASA releases a cut of electrons
singing:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/08/17/earth.song/index.html

--- In crazy_music@y..., "Rosati" <dante.interport@r...> wrote:

/crazy_music/topicId_898.html#1047

> Not to be outdone by Jacky's crickets, NASA releases a cut of
electrons
> singing:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/08/17/earth.song/index.html

I have never heard electrons "chirp" like this before...

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