1. Let Those Bugs Sing
The Essay celebrates the musicality and noise of our insect singers. 1. Let Those Bugs Sing. Writer and musician David Rothenberg wonders what the insect singers have taught us.
The Essay celebrates the musicality and noise of our insect singers. 1. Let Those Bugs Sing.
Long before the first birds took to the sky, katydids and crickets filled the air with their sonorous stridulations. The sound of summer and autumn is one of vibrating tymbals, chirps, trills, xits, tsips and kreeeeeaks! Katydids, Crickets, Cicadas. Now we can listen very carefully to a blade of grass and enter a near-secret world of vibrating treehoppers. Writer and musician David Rothenberg has long been fascinated our relationship with all this noise and explores how insects taught us to love rhythm.
'This is the music of the world, going back millions of years. We evolved in the midst of these sounds and that counts for something'
Producer Mark Burman
All Music by David Rothenberg and insect companions. Bug music 2013, Secret Songs of Ponds 2024
Insect recordings courtesy of Wil Hershberger, Charlie Woodrow and Rex Cocroft
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