Thanks so much for posting this again. Here is an interesting article about the cricket music.Posted by RunningDeer (here)
Journeyman, I look forward to listening to the plants and trees. Your post reminded me of the "Choir of Crickets".Posted by Journeyman (here)
I'm listening to the work of Jason Singh on the BBC six music Cerys Matthews show (16/5/)
He's been working with Kew Gardens to create an Audio installation translating the electric fields generated by plants within the gardens into sound. He doesn't add any notes, just uses the electric readings to generate midi notes which he then attaches to a synthesiser.
He's played a series of wonderful soundscapes taken from different plants and trees. Should be available to listen online for next 30 days. Bbc sounds should allow you to select the relevant section.
Or alternatively at Kew Gardens if you can make it there.
Highly recommended and seemed to fit in nicely with this inspiring thread. I'm not lucky enough to sense the trees in the way some of you can, but everyone could listen to Jason's recordings.
"Choir of Crickets"Created by Jim Wilson, this enchanting recording contains two tracks: the natural sounds of chirping crickets, and the crickets played several octaves lower.
Though it may sound like a synthesizer or a chorus singing; it's the crickets themselves slowed way down, creating the effect of a choir of human voices. The sound created is a simple diatonic 7-note scale chord progression and melody with a multi-layered structure.
(continued below)The recording can be played continuously in the background to create a natural soothing atmosphere for peace, serenity, and healing direct from Mother Nature.
The current version is an extended digitally remixed and mastered version taken from the original recording entitled "Ballad of the Twisted Hair" from the album "Medicine Songs" by David Carson and Little Wolf Band produced by Jim Wilson and released on Raven Records. © Jim Wilson & David Carson, God's Cricket Chorus 1992
Here is the long version I have
https://soundcloud.com/acornavi/jim-...crickets-audio
This is an article and mentions human accompaniment. I found out that this was on only one version
Weekend Diversion: Is this an amazing chorus of slowed-down crickets? October 13, 2013.However, a version of “Twisted Hair” also appeared the album Music for Native Americans by Robbie Robertson and The Red Road Ensemble, and that version featured additional overdubbing by Native American opera singer Bonnie Jo Hunt, who explained in a 2004 interview with NPR how she was approached by Robertson to overdub her voice onto the track