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comment by rrrrr

It is not clear that the tonal harmony you hear was created by the crickets themselves; many people are saying that the composer slowed down the crickets but then created the harmonies himself out of the sound (e.g. playing the samples on a keyboard). The blurb does not make clear what happened, but let's not get too excited about crickets having a sense of harmony and musical structure until we test this by slowing down some field recordings of crickets ourselves.





user-inactivated  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah a lot of the (appalling) comments make it unclear whether we're being misled here. If we aren't this is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.