Cricket Sound Slowed Down 20x

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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[@kyokono6465]

Beautiful and yet chilling. Sounds like a sound they'd base a horror sound effect on.

[@DenesCanTellYou]

It's not a good way of slowing it down. (Actually 4 octaves = 16x but that doesn't matter) If you want to really slow it down you should use a lot higher sampling frequency during recording and then play it back as normal. Interpolation errors that distort this one would be gone - in other words, instead of "stretching time" and finding out what happened between the points, you would be able to use 16x more data to resample from. The results would be quite accurate.

[@overtonesinging]

+Denes Kellner, you're right, higher resolution would be better from a scientific point of view. Can you provide high resolution recordings? For my purpose open source recordings where better, because I wanted people to be able to easily reproduce my results. And I am not sure if the composer of "God's Chorus" used better recordings. In the end the sound result counts for the musician.

[@DenesCanTellYou]

+overtonesinging I'll try to find something, maybe a hi res recording app?, I don't know, but yes, your approach gave the relative best results considering time and efforts. Right now I can't think of anyone who has a portable high frequency recorder.

[@overtonesinging]

With paulstretch you can change time stretching independent from pitch. I chose -4 octaves because the resulting pitch lies in the middle range of the human voice.

[@SophiaBrouchoud-se1ht]

I was thinking th same thing. I have noi experiance withslowing down things but I did not think that a piano would do it very well.

[@kimchigerbil7437]

Lovely! Wish it as longer as i almost was asleep. Soothing.

[@yoco93cro]

how did some people get angelic choir sound of crickets?

[@overtonesinging]

I added the answer to your question to the description. yoco93cro, these angelic choir sounds where the reason I made the video. I wanted to find out if they where real.

[@yoco93cro]

overtonesinging okay, but why did you transpose it -4 octaves

[@overtonesinging]

yoco93cro The -4 octaves I have chosen because the resulting pitch D#4 is in the middle of all four groups of voices of a choir. It can be sung by both bass and soprano. You could choose any pitch. Jim Wilson chose pitches related to the average life span of crickets compared to humans, as is told. I don't know the life span of a cricktet. If it would be around 4 years, his idea and my choice would give a similar result.

[@yoco93cro]

cricket live as larvae 3 years and than as bugs one year, or one summer

[@CTimmerman]

Using a good quality recording of a 1 second chirp, sampled at 48000 Hz, divided by the number of seconds in a single year (60 * 60 * 24 * 365), leaves you with at most 0.0015 Hz. Human hearing starts at 20 Hz.

[@yootoob1958]

Very cool! I'm a musician and sound engineer I love what sound can do!

[@LEEOC]

this is great. i googled this coz playing with vocals on fl studio i speeded up by accident so that it sounded like crickets or something, then thought i wonder what it sounds like slowed down ha. other creatures might hear and communicate 1000x of times faster than we can comprehend.

[@dominotr]

They're actually chanting OM. Incredible!

[@overtonesinging]

That's the fascinating thing about Jim Wilson's idea: if we put ourselves in the biological clock of crickets, then it's the cricket's OM.

[@IncubusOfDeath]

Like ancient winds howling on an extraterrestrial planet......

[@overtonesinging]

Mako 44, somehow the sound tells us about some general basic rules how the universe works. It is a natural product after all.

[@x0thorn0x]

Makes you wonder about speeding up solar wind noise, now, doesn’t it?

[@SvenSon44]

That is creepy as hell

[@levipartridge2790]

yeah ik...its fascinating. Creepy, but fascinating. ps ur profile picture is kinda more creepy btw - just someones iris and pupil...

[@MsAussie83]

Kind of reminds me of something you might hear in a spaceship. Or perhaps in a cave under the depths of the ocean.

[@daftnord4957]

i feel like any sounds in the world can be modified to sound pleasant

[@Saxyct]

If you just slow it down, you completely modify its spectral content, changing the main chirping frequency (which in your case is around 5kHz) and its modulation frequency. If this is done on purpose, that's fine, but that's one of the reasons why the "crickets' choir" is only a fake audio created on purpose to fool naive people.

[@overtonesinging]

😀Maybe it was made to make music and people fool themselfs by interpreting more into it.

[@WesleyEllisEsquire]

Unfortunately - this would have to be done analog and then pitch shifted digitally to get the same effect. If you just slow down a digital track, you slow the inherent digital gaps down as well.

[@liberalguilt]

Just as slowed down birdsong demonstrates music is deep within our evolutionary history.

[@Puma5]

+skoodle um skoo Right... or maybe it shows indeed that all of creation really does sing praises to their God who created them.

[@lambdawg2198]

god doesn't exist

[@jaredlapierre1304]

'sing praise to creation'. Animals communicate with each other, it happens to sound pleasant to us. Or, rather, animal communication that sounds pleasant to us happens to be able to be called singing. Keep cherry picking and looking at reality through those foggy religious lenses, your loss.

[@dcesano1]

That is one cricket.. Try a couple?

[@gzuzsavz]

It's cricket season! This is pretty cool, thanks. I have heard cricket chirps help plants grow. It dovetails in with something else I heard..that classical music help plants & flowers grow, as well p.s. Why do so many youtube thumbnails show a grasshopper? Lol.

[@adonbavure1454]

sounds like super metroid, when you're in the rain

[@edyallreadygalaxy717]

Great!

[@Parasaurolophus433]

It's like a sea monster

[@kong1626]

Petition for this to be the new cave sound for the Caves and Cliffs update

[@yaserjarufe]

Es hermoso... Y desconocido...

[@otruong351]

Will you make a whole track of this itself? It would be fantastic meditation music.

[@overtonesinging]

Good idea. I'll see what I can do.

[@100mnts]

there are people on youtube saying that this is a natural phenomenon. what youve just proved is that it is a hoax since your cricket sound is not changing in pitch at all. as anyone would expect. theres nothing about god in changing the pitch of crickets to create a song, which is what he did.

[@overtonesinging]

I would rather call it a composition. But what people make of it is quite esoteric.

[@amthemushroom3238]

Are you mad that perhaps everything in Fact does praise God? “Let everything that has breath praise God” Psalm 150:6

[@juliangoulette7600]

Dt (D quatertone sharp)

[@mariannet534]

Thank you

[@sanzeepapa981]

I feel like i am siting on the NOSTROMO in the Alien movie!

[@rutujaparab3728]

Me who's hearing it at 2x still couldn't make any difference

[@tailalmn]

Hello Bro this is a good job. Can I use these sounds Please without any money pay for it?

[@overtonesinging]

Yes, it's free of charge under cc-by-sa license as described in the text, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

[@dragonclaner]

Horror game/movie music

[@RDani223]

it sounds like something from a really old horror game

[@gact9929]

Wowowowo

[@Ziplock9000]

This isn't just slowed down and pitch shifted though. A huge amount of data is being added here that never existed.

[@overtonesinging]

+John Michael Stock , thanks for your comment. I didn't add anything. The resources are freely accessible and given above including instructions. I would suggest you to try it yourself, it's fun. I don't know much about Jim Wilsons composition, just wanted to demonstrate that his sounds actually can be reproduced by slowing down real cricket chirps.

[@saintgermain9098]

+overtonesinging well said

[@saintgermain9098]

ahah never existed, can't believe his eyes so makes theories and goes for (his) conclusion witjout testing it out himself talk about "the torch race" plato the republic. you got to do kt yourself to believe it.

[@BortPlate]

+Saint Germain I _think_ what John meant, was that to slow sown sampled audio, you have to _add_ samples that weren't there. Otherwise, there would be huge gaps of silence in between. The software does this for you. A parallel would be: Stretching an image to make it larger. It becomes "blurred", and pixels are added in between that weren't there before. Otherwise, you'd have blank pixels in between. You can find other people saying a similar thing in the comments below, such as by "Wes Ellis".

[@Ziplock9000]

Bort Plate Yes basically this. Another example is upsampling which use algorithms to add noise or extra data in between the sample points that were never there in the original data. With this being slowed down 20x.. Only 1 data point in 20 is actually from the original data, 19 of 20 is just made up algorithmically.

[@thegreatestislove8604]

Could you do other bugs and possibly frogs slowed down based on the lifespan idea?

[@overtonesinging]

Good idea.

[@trenaebowers1968]

Like how bugs perceive time in slow motion?

[@BrooklynZCooper]

I think the sound scared my cat

[@ToddyPoddy-fy5dc]

Sounds like Om but the hmm part

[@0773W]

Like valley of the wind cause weird coincidence dude

[@overtonesinging]

There is so much we don't understand about sound. Why, for example, nature has developed an organ in humans to aesthetically perceive one of the cosmic primal laws of the universe as music and at the same time an organ that produces a reflection of this primal law as sound in a complex way that is not yet fully understood.

[@trenaebowers1968]

The Crickets slowed down don't sound very Musical and crickets use this sound to attract mates I don't know how the lady crickets find this attractive Especially considering insects probably including crickets experience time in slow motion so again I wonder what's attractive about the sound for the lady crickets

[@overtonesinging]

😜 Understand the females...

[@RisoArt]

Ohm

[@rusca8]

Actually it probably demonstrates it is.

[@_XY_]

Lol

[@lordseafood]

that sounds like a demon or something

[@awsome5ful]

o.o

[@axelpearl3318]

fucking nightmarish

[@jayybeauchamp7850]

WACK