Chorus of crickets slowed down to sound like angels (my personal experiment)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Truth or fiction? If a recording of crickets chirping is slowed down enough, it sounds like a chorus of angelic voices. You've all probably heard the ethereal and enchanting recording by composer Jim Wilson which is purportedly just the sound of crickets chirping, slowed down several orders of magnitude. It's amazing. But it's also circumspect, right? I mean, could that really true? So, I had to know for myself, and I downloaded some recordings of crickets and played around in Audacity for about 10 minutes and came up with my own rendition. Listen to Jim's excellent work first (bit.ly/1gzlZp7), if you haven't already, and then listen to my cheap knockoff (in this video). I can attest that mine consists of nothing but a recording of crickets, but I will say that the track required a bit more sound mixing magic than simply slowing it down. Curious? Write me in the comments...
![A cricket's chirping sounds quite different in slow motion! [Snippet]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YAaAZdVeoRU/mqdefault.jpg)
I want this on continuous play!!!! :(
Thanks :)
This is the best one of these I’ve heard yet, should play for 2 hours 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️
Beautiful ❤
Thank you!
I really appreciate you attempting this experiment. It seems that your technique as you described to @carvehard works wonderfully. I moved each layer of audio as you described and it creates a harmonious echo effect. Love this rather strange stuff. I recently played around with a recording of Saturns rings and they sound really interesting at 44%
Do you have a link to that recording? Sounds interesting. :)
So angelic
Thanks!
Going to make a tape loop out of this.
Omg can you post it here? 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🦋
Maybe you should make a longer version of that.
it's wicked! it's the best!! could you maybe, by any chance, umm, please, make an hour loop??
Sounds neat. Maybe suiting for a slow dubstep or ambient type of song
EXACTLY
It does sound more authentic than Mr. Wilson's version. What is your "mixing magic"?
+S. Elliot Perez Thanks for asking. :) I started with a simple background track consisting of a chorus of many crickets chirping to give the piece an ambience. For the effect, I took a sample of a single cricket chirping and slowed it down 85 percent (adjusting to keep the pitch constant). It was really boring though; just a single quivering tone. So this is where the creativity came in... I took two more copies of the single cricket sample and adjusted the pitch so that tonally they were the perfect 4th and perfect 5th of the root pitch from the original. (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_fourth and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_fifth) A little bit of delay (about 500 milliseconds) between the three tracks creates the melody: da - da - da, 5 - 4 - 1.
it barely looks like Jim's experiment, but it's cool aswell!
What speed is this
I described the full process to S. Elliot Perez above. :)
This one is way better.
where did u download them? do they have a hight sample rate?
Hmm. Nothing especially high, if I recall correctly.
Is this one cricket ?
The original sample is essentially one cricket.
You just dubbed over the same cricket in a duplicate track at a different pitch. Anyone with a home studio can do this. Not going to drink the coolaid.
Yes! No special equipment here, just creative use of basic PC tools. I even described the process below in reply to someone else's comment. I'd love to see what others come up with inspired by this. If one judged art only by the "complexity" of the media used, the Monet Lisa would be just another boring oil paint on canvas. I guess there's something else involved in creative works. ;)
And actually, that's exactly how it would sound if it was multiple crickets. Every cricket has it's own "voice" just like any other living being that makes sound.