Someone recorded crickets, slowed down the track, & it sounds like humans

[Lisa Guliani]

Someone Recorded Crickets then Slowed Down the Track, And It Sounds Like Humans Singing


Composer Jim Wilson has recorded the sound of crickets and then slowed down the recording, revealing something so amazing. The crickets sound like they are singing the most angelic chorus in perfect harmony. Though it sounds like human voices, everything you hear in the recording is the crickets themselves.

http://enpundit.com/someone-recorded-crickets-slowed-track-sounds-like-humans-singing/

Wow.

 

[l apprenti de forgeron]

If this is really what the description says, is really wonderful! Thanks for sharing, Lisa.

 

[Stoneboss]

It's absolutely amazing! Thanks for posting this Lisa.

 

[Psalehesost]

Unfortunately, though, it's fake. In a comment, a genuine slowdown with comments was linked: https://soundcloud.com/darangatang/dawkins_chorus_of_crickets

 

[Lisa Guliani]

Awww. Well, lesson learned. Still sounded neat though.

 

[Mark7]

Fake yes, but it made me think of the part in ISOTM (In Search of the Miraculous), That talks about levels of time, presumably across 1st 2nd and 3rd densities :)

 

[griffin]

Unfortunately, though, it's fake. In a comment, a genuine slowdown with comments was linked: https://soundcloud.com/darangatang/dawkins_chorus_of_crickets

Yes, someone actually took a critical look at the claims made in the original presentation, and debunked it as a fraud. A lovely, spiritual and inspiring fraud perhaps, but a fraud nontheless.

So what special insight enabled him to expose this fraud? Simply applying some mathematics.

Just saying....

 

[Laura]

Unfortunately, though, it's fake. In a comment, a genuine slowdown with comments was linked: https://soundcloud.com/darangatang/dawkins_chorus_of_crickets

Yes, someone actually took a critical look at the claims made in the original presentation, and debunked it as a fraud. A lovely, spiritual and inspiring fraud perhaps, but a fraud nontheless.

So what special insight enabled him to expose this fraud? Simply applying some mathematics.

Just saying....

Yes. There is so much "warm and fuzzy" stuff put out there designed to take us in and keep us asleep or make us feel all cozy when we need most to be awake, alert, aware and on guard.

 

[whitecoast]

Really beautiful singing... I sure hope Mister Jim Wilson comes clean and releases the name of the actual choir group responsible.

It's pretty disgusting when you think about it, how this person decided to take the voices of the singers, turn them into animals, and then use them to accrue the credit the original singers deserved. I know I should be used to this sort of thing by now... but I still wish I could hope for more from fellow humans. Perhaps visualizing the guy and imagining the type of suffering he's probably undergone to feel the need to receive love from strangers will help soften the contempt...

 

[Mal7]

I've been browsing comments and googling for more information on this cricket track.

The recording made by Jim Wilson was also used on this track, "Twisted Hair" by Robbie Robertson:

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61ytg60AwOE&feature=youtu.be

Jim Wilson himself was involved in producing the above track for musician Robbie Robertson, using slowed down cricket sounds, (i.e. Wilson didn't just grab a track from a previously released recording and say it was slowed-down crickets).

After initially thinking it was a simple fake or hoax with nothing to do with crickets, I now think this comment by "Audio Guy" is probably the most likely solution:

Comment by: Audio Guy. November 23, 2013

The crickets are slowed down, but he didn’t just slow the sound down once. He did it several times, each time reaching a specific pitch. Then he faded those pitches in and out to make music. The crickets are not singing melodies.

Here is his [Wilson's] quote:
The sound you hear on this recording began as an actual live recording of crickets singing in the night. “I discovered that when I slowed down this recording to various levels, this simple familiar sound began to morph into something very mystic and complex……..almost human.” – Jim Wilson All of nature sings in Praise. An extraordinary sound “like a symphony of angels!”

The key words being “to various levels”
It’s like he sampled a slowed cricket sound and played it on a keyboard.

- _http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/10/13/weekend-diversion-is-this-an-amazing-chorus-of-slowed-down-crickets/

Here is a quote from an interview with musician Tom Waits talking about Jim Wilson's cricket recordings for Robbie Robertson:

Q: Most interesting recording you own?

A: It’s a mysteriously beautiful recording from, I am told, Robbie Robertson‘s label. It’s of crickets. That’s right, crickets, the first time I heard it… I swore I was listening to the Vienna Boys Choir, or the Mormon Tabernacle choir. It has a four-part harmony it is a swaying choral panorama. Then a voice comes in on the tape and says, “What you are listening to is the sound of crickets. The only thing that has been manipulated is that they slowed down the tape.” No effects have been added of any kind except that they changed the speed of the tape. The sound is so haunting. I played it for Charlie Musselwhite and he looked at me as if I pulled a Leprechaun out of my pocket.

MP3: “God’s Cricket Chrous” (sample) from God’s Cricket Chrous, an extended digitally remixed and mastered version taken from the original 1992 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.

- _http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023815586

 

[Joe]

After initially thinking it was a simple fake or hoax with nothing to do with crickets, I now think this comment by "Audio Guy" is probably the most likely solution:

Comment by: Audio Guy. November 23, 2013

The crickets are slowed down, but he didn’t just slow the sound down once. He did it several times, each time reaching a specific pitch. Then he faded those pitches in and out to make music. The crickets are not singing melodies.

Here is his [Wilson's] quote:
The sound you hear on this recording began as an actual live recording of crickets singing in the night. “I discovered that when I slowed down this recording to various levels, this simple familiar sound began to morph into something very mystic and complex……..almost human.” – Jim Wilson All of nature sings in Praise. An extraordinary sound “like a symphony of angels!”

The key words being “to various levels”
It’s like he sampled a slowed cricket sound and played it on a keyboard.

In other words, he could have any taken any high pitched periodic tone and done the same thing. A computer beeping for example or an alarm clock. Would it have produced the same interest from people if it had been introduced as:

"Composer Jim Wilson has recorded the sound of a digital alarm clock beeping and then slowed down the recording, revealing something so amazing. The alarm clock sounds like it is singing the most angelic chorus in perfect harmony. Though it sounds like human voices, everything you hear in the recording is the alarm clock beeping"