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Gryllus Pennsylvanicus chirp. Slowed down 20x, transposed -4 octaves. Sound edited with audacity tools paulstretch and transposition. The spectrogram was recorded with Overtone Analyzer, www.oberton.or....
God's Chorus of Crickets by Jim Wilson was the reason to make this video. People doubted the authenticity of the sound. I think my example - probably a different cricket version - demonstrates satisfactory, that Jim Wilson's composition is not a hoax. His idea was to compare sound waves with the average life expectancy of species.
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My original idea here was simpler. I just wanted to land in the middle of the range of choral singing, around D4. But then it turned out to fit exactly with Jim Wilson's idea: 80 years of approximate human lifespan divided by 4 years of a cricket's gives a deceleration factor of 20.
You actually can compose a chorus by using different speeds (thus different pitches, different lifespans) of the same cricket sound and arrange them rhythmically. I tried it with the above sound and it sounds pretty amazing. This is presumably what Wilson did.
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