mobugs (m4v video)
Summer bugs by the crick at the Martha Lafite Thompson Nature Sanctuary.
Tag: crickets
My Name is not Alvin
When I first heard of Alvin Lucier‘s “I Am Sitting in a Room” I thought it would be interesting to attempt a recreation with the tools I had on hand. Rather than shuffling tapes around, I recorded on my iPod Touch, and then e-mailed the file to my laptop to play back. I repeated this sixteen times. This is what I ended up with: my name is not alvin [mp3].
I’m pretty sure all I ended up recording was the hard drive and the backlight on my MacBook. By the final iteration, the cricket-like chirping is centred pretty close to 5400 and 16000 Hz.
november crickets
I’m at our windfarm – and the crickets are singing!
reminder of summer: field recording
A nice frog I saw when I was working in Lowbanks a couple of weeks ago.
About the same time, and in the same field, I made a recording of crickets: Lowbanks Crickets, 15 Sep 02004. In the depths of winter, I’ll really need this sound as a reminder of what it can be like.