{"id":94607,"date":"2017-07-24T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=94607"},"modified":"2017-07-24T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T11:14:41","slug":"cricket-sound-slowed-down-20-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/07\/cricket-sound-slowed-down-20-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Sound Slowed Down 20 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This is something you have to listen to. In 1992 Jim Wilson got the idea to slow down a recording of chirping crickets. The revealed sound simply was called &#8220;Gods cricket chorus&#8221;. The hidden beauty of nature is astonishing, and we are all part of it!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;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 &#8211; probably a different cricket version &#8211; demonstrates satisfactory, that Jim Wilson&#8217;s composition is not a hoax:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/of90IEoE-IM\" >http:\/\/youtu.be\/of90IEoE-IM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You actually can compose a chorus by using different speeds (thus different pitches) 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.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uanB6Qn8v5M<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gryllus Pennsylvanicus chirp. Slowed down 20x, transposed -4 octaves. Sound edited with audacity tools paulstretch and transposition. The spectrogram was recorded with Overtone Analyzer. Credits: Original sound file by Thatcher (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Field_cricket_Gryllus_pennsylvanicus.ogg\" >http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Fil&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something you have to listen to. In 1992 Jim Wilson got the idea to slow down a recording of chirping crickets. The revealed sound simply was called &#8220;Gods cricket chorus&#8221;. The hidden beauty of nature is astonishing, and we are all part of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}