Debunking God's Chorus of Crickets
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- The claims surrounding the recording God's Chorus of Crickets are sensational and point to a natural harmony that we as humans are unable to perceive. But do these claims stand up to reality? We take a deep dive to find out.
Original recording by Jim Wilson
Vector art courtesy of Vecteezy
Listen to the original here - • God's Cricket Chorus ...
Still sounds beautiful.
You can play about with speed etc but music is only beautiful to the appreciation of the ears it falls on, cricket song is surly a track of the makers chorus just like bird song Beethoven and wind In the trees, or it all could just be noise, your choice , unfortunately some people see nothing in a sunset and get annoyed with bird and cricket song etc, (spiritually unconscious) I wish a reading this well 🙂
I never believed this was a "real" unmodified sound of crickets. But as others have noted, it is a beautiful little piece of music even if it isn't a miracle.
debunking your image of "a cricket" : that is actually a grasshopper / locust
Golden! 😂
I was thinking it is a Katydid
I have experienced this myself while recording crickets and slowed it down on my iPhone. 1000% sounded like an angelic choir, so say what you want. Never shared this info with anyone before, so nothing to gain 🤷♀️
Sameeee I was absolutely amazed 🫶
How did you slow it down on your iphone?
Yes
And l have an ocean-front house for sale in Prague
🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
false. i've done it to. the program you used probably used reverb to smooth it out
@@ABCDEFGHFUhow much is it?
Admittedly the 14% pitch-varying version does sound a lot like human voices, but in a distinctly "uncanny valley" way.
"Distinctly uncanny valley" lol those expressions are in opposition to each other hehe
@@zerozerohero7189 They really are. It’s almost.... *uncanny*
@@laurel9629 lol i see what you did there
I wish he would have been honest that it is altered. Even so the unaltered sound of crickets still leaves me in awe of God’s creation. Beautiful none the less. All of creation reflects His glory
Yes you are absolutely right! I was meditating in my car with the windows opened and then I heard the crickets. Everything else in the background faded and all I heard was crickets. The more I relaxed the more I started to her a melody ring in my ear. It was so beautiful. Then I started to realize that the crickets were praising God! I remember it’s Friday evening… the SABBATH!!!! If it were any other day of the week they wouldn’t be singing so sweet. That made me realize that there is a God , a God of music.
@@UhLeeSeeJah Praise God glory to him and he made all things and it is good.
evolution for sure.
@@UhLeeSeeJah yes it is BEAUTIFUL. And the reason we know beauty is because there is a creator of it. We create evil from self. Self cause self will.
If they would have just said "Sampled crickets played on a keyboard" it would have been impressive enough.
Not really - it’s very common - it’s basic sampling and has been going on for many years at that point
I've always loved that song. It's a shame they couldn't have been honest with how they made it. Doesn't detract from it's beauty at all to learn they did more than slow down cricket chirps.
His second attempt at slowing down cricket sounds sound more like jazz than a godly chorus. Now I’m thinkin about crickets playing jazz :) 🎺🦗
did jim wilson ever actually claim this was completely unedited recordings or claim anything religious about it, or did he just title the album "god's chorus of crickets" cause it fits the music and then people for some reason just assumed it was actually proof of god?
I just listened to crickets at 800 * the speed slow down I guess you can say that and they sounded like they were singing and we're in chorus bro a person slowed it down from regular speed he did it increments to 50 5 then 100 times slow down and they were singing bro you can hear a little chorus in the background what are you talking about
Probably an atheist
Prove it.
It kinda sounds like Neon Genesis Evangelion when the Angels attack
Your reference made my day
Harley-Payj Leatherman that makes me happy to hear!🙂
please release your pitch alteration slowed down cricket chirping it's the most threatening thing I've ever heard and i love it
Ikr. Not only was it not angelic it turned out nature sounds demonic 😊😅
The original done by Jim Wilson, is set to the hymn “ How Great Thou Art” using crickets. Try a mashup.
Can I listen to a longer version of the audio at 2:09? It's so creepy and I want more of it
Awesome and logical debunking, my dude. Shame the guy couldn’t just be satisfied with making cool-sounding cricket music, he had to add some pseudo-spiritual nonsense to get extra views.
Yeah, getting extra views wasn't really a thing back in the 90s.
True!
Thank you for this video. I had the feeling that the sound was not actually real
Always loved the original piece without the woo woo implications that made it viral.
Why didn’t he also slow down the original speed audio in addition to speeding up the slowed down version? I would also like to hear the regular speed slowed down just to see how much different it was…how much manipulation did it require.
I agree and it's too bad all we've heard from the OP in response (in over a year) is, nothing but... crickets.
(I couldn't resist)
Oh man I appreciate this more than the original recording. Thank you for bringing the world back to reality.
The debunked process is very clear. Congratulations. Still is possible to find the music without those manipulations. - Slowing process also, from what is available to public, still have some artifacts that can destroy the natural dynamics and harmonies by treating the sound in more agreable concepted form no most of Humans. One important info/question, or focus is exactly what we have to learn to hear, and what we have to use to be able to record the other sounds that our hears may, or can not listen. Hey! great piece of work , Congratulations
Point is . Don't fully believe everything on the internet lol. Especially now with AI
Seems a bit strange to me that because the less adulterated recording (slowed) sounds less pleasing, meaningful, less familiar and less devine to many of us that some would be dissatisfied. Considering we are not the centre of the universe- and the crickets have evolved this as to compliment mating, territory, communication about what crickets care about- whether we appreciate it for what it is or feel the need to manipulate is of no concern to them.
The whole perception of time vs lifespan is a comforting way to avoid the existential nagging that so many seem to feel when faced with a seemingly simple being with such a tiny lifespan. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Different species can have different time perceptions- but it doesn't necessarily mean that a shorter lived species will view it's life from a proportional perspective to human decades. And for a species so different to us in form and behaviour- does that even matter? Certainly it doesn't matter to them.
We could imagine a star gaining sentence observing the earth; it might see our lives as pointless and less so because humans live only for less than a century while stars can 'live' for hundreds of millions to billions of years (or depending on the star maybe much longer). That imagined star would of course be incorrect. Within human terms our lives are meaningful. Thats the same for crickets- to a cricket it's life is as meaningful as it can be to it- and it won't be comparing itself with humans.
wow nice work here.. i'm learning to use the power of my skepticism as well as watching the rigour of investigation! thank you
Interesting. Does not take into account the possibility maybe not all crickets are singing all the time, but only certain occasions. Also debunkers crickets sounded in very different frequency from those in original video. Could account for their not showing up much in low register when slowed down to that degree. Different species, time of year, recording equipment, amplification, and acoustics of the surrounding environment could all play in. Could be a scam like he said, but could still also be genuine given the possibilities for variation.
Thanks for this explanation. I recorded young frogs that appeared to be singing in a chorus and then another group chirped in yet another key! It sounded angelic.
Makes me think about a song by Paul McCartney
Is this audio on RUclips?
Your audio, I mean
@@mver6262 not yet. I'd have to boost the volume etc first.
@@bluntsafety hope to hear it , soon
Does it matter if it has human voices included. That just strengthens the beautiful link with humans and nature, whatever it is, it’s beautiful.
Could you post the full Wilson track with the normal-speed crickets removed?
Strange how the channel owner never repsonds to really goodfollow up comments, or requests.
There is one aspect of all this that everyone misses, yet it is very obvious. Not one cricket "note" would be possible, nor would the "note" from a bird, or any other creature that choraled, chortled, chirped, cheeped or trilled without the one entity that made it all possible - God
that’s an assumption you make, it is not necessarily a fact
"God has been thoroughly debunked as well." ~ God
Why is everyone a liar and scammer these days?
The musician who made he oiginal recording of crickets isn't really a "liar and scammer" as the piece of music is out there for FREE, but he should not have said that it was not "manipulated." Don't know why someone woud say that when it's not true. But it's still a beautiful "song of the universe."
You say that like people haven't been lying since we evolved speech back when we were living as hunter gatherers in Africa. Get out of here with that "back in my day" bullshit lmao
because it's profitable
The original was created nearly 30 years ago
These days?
On the right summer night when it's not too hot and not too cold, you can hear their chorus if youre lucky and listen. 😉
Shit!! I just listened and was in awe. Shame it’s not legit! I wonder how the process to create the song went for the musician. It’s still an amazing piece of art.
THANK YOU !!!!! This was driving me nuts when a friend recently introduced it to me. I understood the concept, but it just couldn't be so harmonic and choral sounding. However, I big enough not to throw this in my friends face......it makes him happy, and the truth would just remove this for him...Still a gorgeous piece of work. again thx.
God only creates beauty and he always uses sound - He “spoke” to create everything, goes back to sound frequency - and we as humans do not hear 👂 all the countless sounds until we start paying attention as to how to truly listen. 👉 Psalm 148: 7-10 … Praise the LORD … all creeping things of the earth (song of praise)
Crickets do sound slightly different in different climates. I have only heard tree crickets sound like the ones in your recording samples, ground crickets where I live sound like the one in Jim's recording. Interesting how many variables there can be to night sounds.
I heard the Original made in 1920's. You can't debunk this.
Very interesting... how about a link so we know exactly what you are referring to(!)
The original was 1992? Yeah do you have a reference for this?
Additionally, the slowed down version of a bunch of crickets did have the same tonality as the original recording. Slowing down a whole bunch of crickets could never give the detail of a melody of one cricket. So when he slowed it down, it created the exact result that you would expect, when one cricket creates a melody.
It would have been nice if it was real. It would have been beautiful. The music is beautiful. But it would be a beautiful concept of the crickets had done that themselves.
Very interesting and well done. We need such rational debunking because fake doesn’t help the cause. Two observations: first of all, when you really slow down the original sound to the actual difference of life span, it’s almost inaudible for the human ear. That is not a problem though as it would be legitimate to rise the frequency by sonification. The higher octaves still reflect the same quality of the original sound as well as eventual harmony. So, it would be legitimate to rise the frequency to make the sound audible while keeping the slowed down speed. Second, whether there’s harmony in this would still have to be analyzed with single animals. I don’t know anything about crickets and their sounds and maybe this has already been done. However, this universe exists on an underlying harmony reflecting order vs chaos. Even the planets move with “harmonics”, as already shown by Johannes Kepler. We have harmonics in sound and colors, and in biology (i.e. Phi or the so called “Golden Ratio”). This means that there’s necessarily harmony in everything until its decay.
Yes!! These are my thoughts as well.
Do you know about slowing down bird singing?
They are compliete tenor arias
the Flower Duet was done by finches
finding this video while high was a delightful experience
So how about the low rumble of elephants that can hear each other miles apart? Is that fake too?
It's making the rounds again, and my goodness, but people are gullible! Thanks for debunking this. How cheap these ploys are. They cheapen people's spiritual leanings and, in the case of "God's Chorus of Crickets," cheapen our understanding of insects and their inherent complexity. ThanksForPosting!
But the sound of nature is harmonious no matter. Besides we don't know what the sounds in the heaven realm really sounds like. I love the sounds at night..crickets , katydids, Cicadas etc..just beautiful
I agree it still sounds beautiful even if it’s not as melodic as gods chorus.. def angels singing!
well he made a great job 'cause It sounds beatifully
Is there a big, big reason why you slowed down the first sample to 10% and the second sample to 14%? I like that human cricket lifespan part, I couldn't do the math that fast, but it disproved the claim he makes on his video.
That's a good Qs, I wonder if he'll ever respond(?)
My first impression seeing the other patterns was actually that it must have been birds "corrupting" the audio, since the file of the crickets played back was very noisy and cluttered. But I havent listened to the full video (I actually find the audio creepy and not soothing) so youd know more than me about whether the audio pattern matches up to musical notes on a synthesizer.
Strongly dislike the existence of God being thrown into a viral audio sample though.
Well thanks for ruining it for me.
Yeah, thanks, dk
nice work here sound med , for myself I wasn't all that impressed with the recording. I've got an air conditioner that sounds like a forest full of crickets.
You're completly missng the point... air conditioners are man made objects, while crickets are not. To go deeper into the point... while (most) science is helpful/good, the actually reality is, science can only "reverse engineer" what's already here. So make no mistake, try as they might, science/sceintists still cannot create a living breathing cricket out of thin air, or create any other type of biological life out of thin air.
So effectively, the sound in and of itself can exist in the “melody” pitch given all the sample of crickets and their variability. And because he used a keyboard, you suggest this is a false claim. I think this is a perspective issue. I believe the deeper claim he was trying to make was; if nature exalts God, all around the world, with all the crickets that’s exist, with all the variability in cricket sounds they make, (G)od in fact could hear his own symphony. One cricket in America could be singing in sync with another cricket across the world, yet still, to (G)od it is one masterpiece. And to your lifespan point, that wasn’t the main driving force of his video, it was the curiosity that got him close to the adjustment of audio that produced the beautiful sound. It does not detract anything from the big picture point that was trying to be made. Your video proves your prospective and the method to achieving the audio famously known, however, it does not disprove “God’s cricket choir”. I suggest a title change.
Yes I totally agree. I think it would produce the harmonic result if different regions of crickets were used in one recording.
Thats a great example of a fantastic , abstract thinking!
If my Auntie had a beard she Could be my Uncle.
jam1966ful Close, but no Cigar. A cricket will always be a cricket, and a cricket noise will always be a cricket noise.
I tested this years ago in my own garden with a high sample rate recording. I got a result like the original. Heavenly chorus.
The slowed down cricket sound sounded like a choir to me it sounded near the chorus , there are over 900 species of crickets and they also make different sounds during different times , a disturbed cricket wont sound as relaxed crickets when thex are just chilling. Bit the one slowed down cricket sound you sjowed sounds chorus to me already.
Wow! How does this not have more views? Your content is amazing! Subscribed! 😄
"Debunking God's Chorus of Crickets" - Reality check: no real harmonics & has been manipulated, but it still sounds great!
If the crickets in the original recording were singing a harmonious tune, then of course it would look like music notes when translated into a spectrogram. The recording you played that you said was "light-years away" from Wilson's actually sounds pretty similar in my opinion. It just sounds like a different song... I'm not saying Wilson's recording wasn't manipulated, or that all of his claims surrounding the recording are factual, but I don't think you disproved anything here.
Highly disagree. As an audio engineer and musician, the methods used here were sound (no pun intended)
Crickets? That sounded like more than only crickets you recorded. Crickets chirp. And with more deliberate breaks and patterns. Not just a blur of noises from the woods at night. Not saying your discovery doesn't have truth in it, because it was clearly some sort of combination crickets with an instrument of some sort. But, let's hear actual crickets, like outside someone's window or in their garage, and then slow those down. This could get interesting, I think.
I'm with what this guy says here about the crickets singing! From the beginning of the video and me thinking...I can do the very same thing with my 4 track recorder! Splice " here and there" and rearrange the chirping and then transfer onto a c.d. or Mp3 ..... The sounds of crickets slowed way way down is very weird and eerie, but there's no chorus style singing.....lol.....
I gotta hand it to Jim though, that was dang clever
Nature played together, let alone human intervention has a melody.
Though one more chaotic like jazz
Was the original recording recorded on tape? If so, seems like wow and flutter would play a part in the slowed down version. But I’m guessing you didn’t consider that.
It’s a nice example of Musique concrète. Taking existing non musical sounds and manipulating them into musical sounds.
When you do it for real, it sounds like 2001.
Perhaps if we collect all the crickets together, they will take us through the universe at faster than light speeds until we die and become a space baby?
😂😂😂👏🏽👏🏽
Sounds like a bee hive. Or the music played in “2001 a Space Odyssey” when the monolith was featured
What program are you using?
The sound you call crickets sounds more like cicadas.
My understanding is it's a specific song, a mating call. Any thoughts on that?
Tik Tok?
From the account, conornoburst?!!?
As the Nerd Crew would say: Veeeeeeery coooool :D Thanks! Still a great piece of sound though.
That's better than the other one. Just slowed down it sounds amazing. They both are beautiful to hear, though.
One big problem with your 'debunking'. Your recording of crickets was a continuous chirping with no rests - no beats. Jim Wilson's was one of pulsing - chirps followed by brief silences, like we very often hear. So you debunked yours, not his, as they were two very different things.
What you should have done, was slow HIS down - you seem to have been able to isolate it and remove it, so you should have slowed that one down. THAT would have been proof. You did not do that, however.
He literally manipulated the original "God's Chorus" recording and it's clearly different from the normal-speed recording. There's no point in slowing down the normal speed part because the claim is already proven to be false, it is not a match and clearly manipulated
still sounds amazing. the sound is vibration of earth either way.
Yeah, but by that standard, every sound is a “vibration of the earth”, isn’t it? The human voice is as natural as the cricket’s chirp. And the crickets’ chirp was modulated to sound melodious, just like the human voice in a church choir.
@@MadHatter42 pretty much!
What incredible video
That portrays how dangerous theism is.
Good video but it would have been so much better if "sound meditation" would have collaborated with the original content creator and asked how, when and where he created the original piece. This way we would have a more accurate representation of all the the circumstances and facts involved.
No keyboard in 1920s. This recording is screwed up. I might have the original. It is REAL.
😂 say what you want- His creation praises Him and groans for His return. His word says if we don’t praise His name then the rocks and hills will cry out- if He says things cry out and sing I’ll believe Him over you.😊
Psalm 66:4
Psalm 150:6
Revelation 5:13
Isaiah 55:12
Job 12:7-10
Nice analysis, except for that grasshopper-looking human hand at the end.
Keep in mind there's analog slowing down with the accompanying pitch drop, then there's digital "slowing down" which is just stretching (and filling). e.g. trololooowwww ruclips.net/video/2HZAReul9IQ/видео.html or the youtube speed setting.
Beautiful explanation.
What difference does it make, if you like the music, and it makes you feel great? Why do people have to tear things up that have a positive flavor to it?
Because its being said its 100% real. Would you rather just be lied to about everything all the time?
I’ve believed this shiz my whole life! Kinda heartbreaking now knowing the truth! 😢
Even without the piano harmony added in, there's still some pretty cool natural musical undertones being produced by the crickets
Thank you for this work. It is people like you that allow us to live in a reality instead of a fantasy.
These are the only crickets left for you, they have been rubbing themselves together for millions of years and are Gods among locusts. YOU WILL KNOW THEY'RE SONG
Some of it sounds like a György Ligeti choral work.
This is haunting, to me it sounds my hellish
Why would you spoil this for everyone!
nice video man thanks
2:10 I'm getting flashbacks to that seen in 2001 a space Odyssey
My thoughts exactly. The monolith.
And it isn't even that far from the claims, when you speed it up it's like just a chord of crickets and the layered cricket sound, nothing else
excellent analysis - but the grasshopper at the end instead of a cricket lol *facepalm*
@2:09 is still pretty amazing
Thanks for ruining this for me!!
But also, the full speed recording of crickets in his piece is very different from the 2 that you used.
But I get the point... damn I wanted this to be real!
it's true i'm not totally convinced, but definately presented some good hypothesis as to your debunking theory.. i liked your use and knowledge of the spectrum-graph and how to read harmonics etc.. very logical
I also really liked how your simply debunking the claim it was a claim to be unmanipulated... you did it with class, with style, respect, and care..
@@highercallingmusic9240 I know it's not easy to grasp immediately, above all for those who are not familiar with sound and acoustics. I'm a professional in this field, and I can confirm everything from this video. it's a hand made audio track very well created by a skilled technician to trick naive religious people. and unfortunately he reached his goal.
You can't deny or debunk God ever.
But however, it still sounds nice.
Why we need a video or proof that "God is real"... Lord look around at all his creation. He made us in his image and creation was to edify ourselves and him. We give back by taking care of his art work. I am certain there are many sounds we cannot hear but He can. Something's are beyond human understanding or reason and thus we dismiss them. To the ones listening and can hear.. that is a gift.
Still kind of sounds like music but really cool.
Oh. QI on BBC television is not going to be happy abiut this.
Your prejudice and censorship will only bring despair
does sound unlike crickets i've heard once you speed up the song but how is that proving its modified? just saying its obvious doesn't make it a proof does it? i mean what if someone comes out with a video debunking your debunking and when they speed up the cricket song it sounds normal and they say "see obviously he modified the file cause it doesn't sounds like this". anyways leaning toward what you said just saying for people who haven't explored it themselves just be open to it for now.