[Trombone-l] Cicada Sounds

[Raymond Horton]

I'd heard that they had surfaced up that way this year.  We had them 
about three years ago in the Ohio Valley.   One school campus, situated 
in a large valley, was so inundated that multiple cicadas would jump in 
your shirt as you walked from a parking lot a few steps to a building. 


I'm guessing they're thinking "Hey! You a girl cicada?  How _you_ doin?"


Ray Horton
Louisville



Bill Dinwiddie wrote:
> Want to hear the cicadas? Perhaps you've already heard enough of them. If 
> you live where I do, you haven't heard any cicadas yet. Cicadas are the big 
> thing in Chicago this year. The 17-year variety have emerged from the ground 
> and are humming up a storm. Some places in the Chicago area are experiencing 
> very loud levels of the little guys' mating calls. Other areas, like where I 
> live, are not experiencing any sound at all. I have yet to hear or see one 
> of these creatures. Thankfully, Peter Gena of Glenview, IL has made a 
> digital, real time audio stream of the little beasties and it is available 
> for you to listen if you so desire.
>
> Go to this site:
>
> http://www.nujus.net/~locusonus/site/streams/mapcreacast.php
>
> You will see a blurry world map. Click on the lowest box by Chicago. It will 
> be colored orange if the audio stream is on. (Have patience: it takes a 
> while for this stuff to load on your computer, even if you have cable). The 
> male cicadas only vibrate their tiny internal drums between roughtly 6 AM 
> and 6 PM, and usually only on warm days. When the new box appears, click 
> start. (Actually, the sound just started up without this step on my 
> computer.) Have your volume turned down a little as the sound is actually 
> quite loud. You can turn it up later.
>
> Peter Gena says: "The sound begins each morning with this incredible din of 
> thousands of insect bodies vibrating all at once. It's like a warble and a 
> rumble all at the same time, like nothing you've ever heard. Then you hear 
> the sounds closer by, filled with these wonderful subtleties of beats, 
> volume, all kinds of acoustical phenomena. If it weren't so loud - it's 
> getting close to deafening by now - it would be music suitable for 
> meditation."
>
> Thanks to John Van Rhein's Tribune article for the details.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Bill Dinwiddie
> billdin at comcast.net
>
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