speaking of music…

Posted on Saturday 12 October 2013


reckon this is real?

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    October 12, 2013 | 7:16 PM
     

    I do think this is real, but the credits for it are obscure. Jim Wilson and David Carson made the track for Carson’s 1992 album “Medicine Songs.” There are 2 tracks, 1 cricket chorus at normal speed, and 2 the recording slowed down. The speed is a lifetime of a cricket scaled to the lifetime of a human being.

    What’s going on is explained well by a commenter on a Youtube video here:

    snappydoodad 2 days ago
    The sped up tape wouldn’t sound right, as you’d have crickets chirping at normal speed with sped-up crickets layered? on top. Track A is crickets normal speed, track B is the slowed down crickets, mixed together.
    So what’s the effect you are hearing?
    It’s a phenomena of oscillation and phase-cancellation between the waves of each track; the resulting sound is the modulation of these two sounds together.
    You’d never hear this in the real world, as the other track doesn’t exist.

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