Mental. Love that.

Well, I did read in to it a bit and it’s not quite as it seems. Wasn’t going to mention it unless someone else called it but:

It seems it’s individual samples of crickets, slowed and pitched to harmonize when played together. Hence the chorus sound. It’s still crickets though. Just not quite as natural as it’s made out to be.

on “the secret life of the cat” they demonstrated how a cat modulates a purr with a meow so the meow is shifted into higher frequencies, some even beyond 20 Khz but the sub harmonics are still heard, and humans feed the cat or give it attention – whereas if it just meowed it would be ejected from the bedroom for making a racket (my cat did this too, as if he barged open my door at 05:00 and meowed in my ear I’d give a long deep meow back to him (to warn him this was not on) and he’d either realise it was too early and sleep at the foot of my bed until I awoke, or try and wake my sister up, but he later would just start off with a loud purr which seemed to have more “urgency” than a normal one..

the scientist did redline her Marantz PMD430 (which shows how loud the cat was) but it didn’t sound too rough on playback, so those must have a good limiter just like the analogue cassette versions did (it actually served as a good demonstration of the recorder in operational use)

@cheeseweasel 558920 wrote:

Sorry. Perhaps this video of some bloke playing trumpet at a donkey will restore your faith in the natural beauty of Mother Earth’s sonic landscapes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C1x71fSt2s

Omg thats great!

well just to try and revitalise some hysteria without actually making the effort to import the clip etc, but using some musical knowledge…; there is something called ‘the harmonic series’ that are a set of maths ratios. when there is a vibration, say for example a string vibrates; at first the whole string will vibrate, then it will split in the middle and both sides will vibrate, then into 3, into 4, into 5 into infinity or until vibration ceases. represented as ratios these are 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 1/5 etc. if the vibration is audible, you hear a incredibly fast sequence of sounds. they happen so fast that it is impossible to hear them as separate in real time. it begins with the initial vibration which in music is called a ‘fundamental.’ so as we’re in music land, think of an instrument where the vibration is visible such as a stringed instrument. when it is plucked or bowed (or toothed; or whatever; fuck you [s.p]) the fundamental can be heard; more commonly known as a ‘note.’ as the note decays, each ratio can be heard. in music land they are called ‘partials.’ each partial has a pitch. the first is an octave above the fundamental (e.g. C2-C3), the following partial is exactly half an octave above the previous partial (C3-G3), then a fifth again (G3-D3), and so on into infinity or cease in vibration. each partial is weaker than the last so commonly the human ear will only hear the first few. the amount of partials heard and their relative amplitude (volume) make up whats called an instrument’s (or non-instrument) ‘resonance.’ bowed orchestral instruments are considered to be highly resonant as many partials can be heard with each fundamental. anyway wtf am i babbling about at 6.40am ?… oh yeh fucking crickets wtf… (apologies, a censored edition can be made available if requested when im not coming off a series of drugs… anyhow crickets, yes… no hang on; cello first yes (sorry im suddenly losing the will to live)… so all musical instruments conform to the principles of the harmonic series as it is physics, and as most things with regard to physics they tend to conform. and actually just to be a smart arse, the whole of history of western music can be understood as a gradual discourse through the harmonic series and can be understood as the development of ‘harmony;’ beginning with hildegard von bingen (gregorian chant) whose harmonies were in octaves only (cos she was a bit scared to use a 5th as a harmony note in case it invoked the wrath of god, who might punish instrumentalists by exploding one of their self combusting instruments) and then through large passages of time more notes from the harmonic series were introduced as what we call ‘consonances’ and this went on slowly expanding the series to whenever we stopped giving a fuck about classical music, (roughly around the time the germans started trying to kill everyone, and everyone went ‘you know what, fuck the germans and their discourse up through the harmonic series unto the gods’ i’m gona do something different, such as atonal, series counterpoint etc, which didn’t really work because the harmonic series is based on physics and so any departure from that was always gona be audibly less stable and regarded as artsy fartsy noise up until boulez who arguably put classical music in its grave by making it inaccessible to everyone except from a very small minority who enjoyed listening to dissonant chaos (the latter end of the harmonic series with some twists), and then came elvis and well game over. so err yeh crickets: every organic sound has what in music land is called a complex tone, meaning the harmonic series is formed. every single sound you make, the harmonic series is occuring; its just that western musical intruments isolate specific fundamentals and are designed to be highly resonant where as me button bashing at 6.50 is not, so i cant hear them, but they are there, just like the mega beetles that circulate the earth so high no one has found them yet… anyhow im not saying the slowed down track are crickets, but if you consider that every every organic sound (as in, not synthesised) will will produce a complex tone (a series of sound partials). im no going to say why cos i cant find my benzos and i’ve got no idea why im writing all this really, but what in the track you can hear are ‘major triads’ that could be formed by the lower partials of the harmonic series, and if slowed down enough one strike, pluck, scrape, if its a relatively clean tone, you would hear the harmonic series… which brings me thankfully, conclusively back to the cello. if anyone knows the tuning of a cello, each string is an interval of a 5th when played in open position (the whole string [and so is also the harmonic series]). can you imagine (youtube) the sound of a cello being tuned? sound similar to the fawkin crickets does it (in terms of the pitching) ? now where the fuck are my benzos, i’ve got a massive headache after that. i could have just imported the sound, sped it up and plastered it here, would have been quicker :rolleyes:

paragraphs? :O

well tbf, i probably wouldn’t bother to read all that. fortunately i already know what it says since my memory chip was updated, feel like i have a past again… which i know there’s no past and yesterday i was actually a czech guy on the outskirts of prague. I know this cos they arrived late and i was semi conscious during the switchover. they’re so lackadaisical. i think they still think i don’t notice. a bit like the government

@know_hope 558971 wrote:

just for you partyvibe. i wouldnt have bothered anywhere else… found my benzos 🙂 … i wonder if they make them yellow so wreckheads like me can find them easier…

there are blue ones as well and white, the colours do not necessarily correspond to the dose strength across all manufacturers. Where I work sturdy plastic or metal trays are available for those patients who are capable of taking their meds indepdently but due to dexterity problems and/or confusion might mislay them or drop them on the floor by accident. Unfortunately I cannot add an extra one to the order without raising suspicion.

As for crickets, they generate their noises mechanically (very similar to how tone generators on the old automatic telephone exchanges once did). This creates a signal rich in harmonics, so it would not be unusual for natural scientists to record them and slow them down to work out what the higher frequencies are.