Cicadas: Nature's Clock Divider?

[@EleniEliades_]

One of the most intellectually surreal videos I've watched/listened to by you concerning the idea of Time, Specificality of Space + Sound. Cicadas create the sound and emotion of warm Summer evenings. That ebb and flow of their Soundscape is at times quite shrill, then their song grows slowly quieter as if orchestrated, they all begin their song again together... I used to collect the shells of their beautiful bodies- so delicate as hundreds of them clung to all the Trees in our neighborhood. Fascinating singing/scratching Insects. Lovely video.🦎💥🙉🎵💡

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks for the reminiscence! The ‘87 brood is the first summer I vividly remember from childhood. I thought the shells were a feature of every summer. We had collections of them stuck to tree trunks and playsets 🎶

[@EleniEliades_]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC YES ! I taught my sister's boys when they were kids all about collecting Cicada body shells off the Trees and they were so excited running about collecting them and showing their Mom and Dad what "Achoo", their Aunt {me}, had shown them to do!!! My sister screamed "Throw those filthy things AWAY and go wash your hands!!!" It was hilarious. So the two boys came up to me sad + crying, & relayed what had happened. They wanted to bring them home SO much that I told them that's alright, let's go and collect some more! They were elated. Afterwards I put the Cicada Shells in separate zip-lock bags, gave each boy their collection and told them to just hide the bags from mom & dad, they'll never know! They were jumping up and down laughing saying Yay Achoo! Thank you!!!. Then I explained to them the strange LOUD sounds Cicadas make. Every time that sound was heard I'd tell them "That's the Cicadas singing...do you hear them all?" They were awe struck. Such good times we had~💡🌌👾

[@simoantere8738]

A strong Twin Peaks feel on this video, I love it! The owls, or in this video, cicadas, are not what they seem though.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

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[@Tofupancho]

🥧

[@adammccoy1062]

I was wondering if the table was Formica

[@robertsyrett1992]

Love the straight-up nature montage.

[@mauriciomandara5946]

Great video !!! Love the make noise building

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Me too!

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Love your videos; always thoughtful. But also, that bit of strangeness that pushes it subtly into magical realism. Keep making great stuff. Physical objects but also slightly dreamy smart & creative videos.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks! Very glad you are enjoying the videos ⚡️

[@wreqha]

If my 3 year old is considered part of the natural world, he is a pretty amazing random patch generator.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Mine too!

[@Jan-dB]

THIS is a fantastic outstanding video, thank you!

[@galenbaby]

Alright, it’s official. I’m a fan. Time to get some Make Noise bed sheets.

[@constantinflux]

Great video. Taking these to another level! Keep it up!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks! Glad you liked it ⚡️

[@tomrolando6115]

Great video, so creative. Makes me wish I was young again. Shush a great company to do business with!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it ⚡️

[@melter_rob]

Brilliant on many levels! Thank you for this!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it ⚡️

[@brianreilly6545]

An amazing man doing amazing things 🙌🏻

[@eikarumba429]

Super cool video guys! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks!

[@dakaybomb]

Ah, good to have you back. This was a fun one to watch. I’m unsure if you had erasure head in mind when producing, but it had a similar feeling.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

I often have Eraserhead in mind ✏️

[@broadpath_intermedia]

This was fun. Thank you. Now I want a Tempi. Hope the supply chain cycles are as perpetual.

[@TheSlickoify]

My math skills improved since I watch your channel.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Nice! ⚡️

[@cladinator]

That was very Lynchian. Felt like I was watching Twin Peaks: The Return for a minute.

[@marblelee]

Pretty sure that’s what he was going for.

[@BRNTmodularmusic]

So the hairstyle was a hint?🤔🤔🤔😜

[@shane_l8085]

Came to say the same thing ha

[@benjaminwirsching]

I have been diligently gathering the cicada choirs in the mornings before they start to sound all "crikety" in the afternoons. Fun fact. Every sample I have of them is naturally either spot on or very very close to an E/E#. Totally baffled by this. Cheers.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Interesting observation! Perhaps there's a geometric reason for this? Something to look into, thanks for sharing!

[@bodoelsel]

I have a dream that one day I will fly from Frankfurt/Germany to JFK airport, rent a car and drive to the Make Noise factory/office just to say hello and have a tea with you 😀

[@milztempelrowski9281]

say when your ready im in :D

[@CinematicLaboratory]

Me too! No not 'me too' me too, but me also.

[@Paintopia_VR]

It should be a mushroom tea :)

[@Somnambule]

This is a super great inspiration and idea! Genius!🖖☺️

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 😀

[@leomatura1333]

When will you all make more Tempi?

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

ASAP!

[@jeromegr70]

Absolutly love it ! I wonder if there are circadas in my shared system which always seems to play its own Way.

[@zacwhyte]

Speaking of tempi, where are they? I’ve had one on order since November 2020.

[@joeljones8127]

Me too! Wish they would get to work and stop fooling around out there in North Carolina.

[@edgeof60]

Interesting rhythmic application here, but with the cicadas themselves it's all about the drone. Here in the mid-Atlantic they're in full emergence now, singing during the daylight hours and they are LOUD. I've been sampling them for various uses (sound-wise, not food-wise) but their unadulterated drone is amazing; steady hum with oscillating waves of sharp buzzing and overtones. Humans can make some amazing sounds but nature will always have us beat.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Right now I’m trying to decide whether I’m going to need to make a pilgrimage

[@edgeof60]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC DC area is ground zero. Probably a couple more good weeks to go There are direct flights from Ashville to BWI.

[@danikoenig]

thanks david

[@jamoore84]

Make Noise: The Return

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

😉

[@joeljones8127]

Clock,.......?? You mean like Tempi?? I payed for one around six months ago, and it has been on back order ever since. Are you guys ever going to make any more of these modules?? I would love to play with one,............but it never seems to arrive. Seems you have time for lots else.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

I promise you there is nothing we will love more than to get our instruments into your hands. We're working hard to get everything back in stock as fast as we can. We apologize for the delays.

[@winglad7473]

🤣 Glorious, Walker 👍🏼 No cicadas here, but a guy who sells potatoes and blurts into a megaphone to do so. I have sampled him 🤪

[@jonbrouwer4300]

Prime number clocks?! I love it. Sometimes I have an LFO on the clock rate of a burst generator that fires events somewhere. This is in reference to the day/night cycles of pedestrian numbers in a city.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Interesting patch! So when the LFO goes positive it is "daytime" and negative "nighttime?"

[@jonbrouwer4300]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC Exactly : )

[@damnsavage]

If Walker did every advertisement I would be capitalism's greatest defender. Perhaps Makenoise could trial a brand of crisps?

[@dreamdealer]

this is so good.

[@fasterdetail]

I wonder what the 2014 shared system cv bus would look like in the background perched on a make noise stand..reminds me of the Roland Juno 6.. Not by function or sound but by silence regarding importance of synthesis and vintage aesthetic ..low key

[@christopherjohnson2380]

A little too far North for cicadas here but I'm still looking forward to field recording some katydids

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

i'm hoping we're not too far south! Might have to make a road trip

[@benjaminwirsching]

I have plenty of samples of the cicada choirs from up in ohio. I'm happy to email them to anyone that wants them. all raw and untouched.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

@@benjaminwirsching i am interested, especially as i plan to do some field recordings if possible around here and could be fun to compare. walker at makenoisemusic dot com

[@citizenbxtr883]

@@benjaminwirsching that would be appreciated if you are offering. Thanks for your generosity. Citizenbxtr at gmail dot com

[@noidsch2129]

I' am wandering how cicades and The Wogglebug will interact with each other?

[@CinematicLaboratory]

Uncertain the future is (yoda). Maybe the wogglebug made them emerge after 17 years.

[@robertsyrett1992]

Man, are we about to go full breadtube video essay? I'm down with it.

[@djformalin]

Funny....I have a huge and loudly cicada-consert outside my jungle studio just now... and a Strega + O Controll in my studio...I also have a chair and some books..... life is beautiful 🎼

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Sounds lovely! Happy patching ⚡️

[@iamsushi1056]

Please tell me that there’s a module planned based on this

[@richarquis]

This is completely fucking brilliant! Goddamn! I'm hoping to order Tempi and Morphagene at the end of July (please make some more stock!) and this video is giving me all sorts of ideas!

[@ammarm5000]

I just love the fact that your watch counts in "weeks"

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

🕰

[@ianwedegartner3920]

"#9 #9 #9 #9..." - the Beetles

[@TriangleWaveRecords]

It makes me think a little bit of the Conway's Game of Life :-)

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

I can see it!

[@yalivec]

Niiice! David Lynch should be proud of this :)

[@Autotross]

This is so great. 🐛🐛🐛

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks!

[@kabood777]

that's it, let's set this video to half speed, and send it over to David Lynch, I think he will be proud of us 😊💖👌

[@andrewmavor4737]

This video is exactly why the internet exists.

[@Mrpsblobsoflowendmung]

Ok has David Lynch Secretly moved to NC? Great stuff folks 😂😂😂👏👏👏👏

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Glad you enjoyed ⚡️

[@brthrm1511]

That's EXACTLY what I thought! Totally had a Lynch vibe and absolutely LOVED it!

[@shahruzmoshtael]

Please make a video featuring that Oberheim Xpander!

[@gay_milhouse1160]

Incredible video Walker. Really feels like a synth tutorial video that would exist in the Twin Peaks The Return universe? Really enjoy when y'all get weird with it lmao

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thank you, Sherilynn Fenn, if that really is you 😁

[@everettbonczek7959]

Do I spy “Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music” in the book case? Not surprised!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Yes, good eye! Books on the bookcase discussed here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKunhYCtbNOthck

[@everettbonczek7959]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC Thanks so much! Hadn’t seen that video and it is RIGHT up my alley

[@krisamadhi]

Hello 👋

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Hi Kri!

[@chaich1421]

I do get ideas from the natural world but hardly ever go down the rabbit hole like Walker does. Me doing cicadas would sound be analogs of what they sound like to my shallow ears: thousands of short shrill phrases over lapping (conversing?)

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

That sounds pretty great too ⚡️

[@treblegrey]

You are sitting in a room different from the one I am in now!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Resonant frequencies 🎶

[@precarious333music]

Who doesn't like a good solid stool?

[@23hangingtrees]

Alright Alvin Lucier 😊

[@StpSqncr]

Haiku!

[@FastRCToys]

Impossible to get something from you in Europe 🥲

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

We apologize for the delays! We are working hard to restock everywhere as fast as we can. ⚡️

[@monariver66]

😋👍

[@monariver66]

♥️

[@minimalismuss]

I thought with "Cicadas" a new Module would be introduced :D :D :D

[@Frozen_Smoke1972]

O O F ! O O F ! O O F !

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Mission accomplished 😉

[@charlesbronson2806]

Looking for an optomix. They're sold out everywhere.

[@franknada6427]

Cabin fever has set in , all work something something dull boy ....

[@debaserNYC]

Anyone else hearing You Better You Bet by The Who at the beginning?

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

I don’t know that one but I’m gonna check it out ⚡️

[@waynegreenhaw3344]

Ok...who put LSD in Walker's coffee 😏

[@walrtbstudios5430]

I recall being told that there are three species of long-period cicada, and that each of them has an 11-, 13- and 17-year sub-species. Insects in the UK are seriously dull by comparison…

[@MichaelDowComposer]

We also have cicadas in the UK although they're extremely rare. Stag beetles are pretty cool though!

[@CarlsbadSGP2007]

Cicada

[@wonkothesane2288]

Good job I never took those mind altering drugs. Otherwise I’d be freaking out right now...

[@danieltx7066]

Cool video, but boy, do I dislike cicadas! I’ll take crickets instead. Birds! Birds are great! I didn’t grow up in the south, but do live there now, so cicadas are not a childhood memory for me. .Good idea to use nature as inspiration, though.

[@pinchopaxtonsgreatestminds9591]

Reminds me of Eraserhead.

[@MarkoDeLaVoota]

funny...good , we need more fun !

[@psilo761]

ACID

[@dktr2380]

Maybe you try Fibonacci, Walker. 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 ....

[@mrcwalker33]

David Lynch directed this video!

[@tschimoler]

it quite freaked me out when Walker revealed that Make Noise HQ is above a "convenience store"!