Re: [microsound] I N S E C T M U S I C

[a dontigny <a_dontigny@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "teardropb ." <boygothic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> can some one give me links to artists making
> music/soundscapes with insect 
> recordings or synthetic emulations of insect sounds.

Hildegard Westercamp has a wonderful piece called "Criket
Voice" (1987) on her album "Transformations" (IMED 9631).

Here's a exerpt from the liner notes:

"Cricket Voice is a musical exploration of a cricket, whose
song I recorded in the stillness of a Mexican desert region
called the Zone of Silence. The quiet of the desert allowed
for such acoustic clarity that this cricket?s night
song?sung coincidentally very near my microphone?became the
ideal ?sound object? for this tape composition. Slowed
down, it sounds like the heartbeat of the desert, in its
original speed it sings of the stars.

The quiet of the desert also encouraged soundmaking. The
percussive sounds in Cricket Voice were created by
?playing? on desert plants: on the spikes of various cacti,
on dried up roots and palm leaves, and by exploring the
resonances in the ruins of an old water reservoir."

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