Insect recordings

[l.b.]

http://invertabit.bandcamp.com/music

[Zeno Marx]

Francisco López is interesting in this context, a scientist in the field of biology as he is. Jungle/insect sounds recorded during his research trips to various places in South and Central America permeat several of his albums, La Selva being perhaps the best example.

I really dig his bio-acoustics approach.

Jeph Jerman has played with this on his Harvester Ants recording, though it isn't one of his better releases.
http://www.discogs.com/Jeph-Jerman-Harvester-Ants-March-24th-2001/release/924019

JGrzinich was a bit more successful with a similar idea.  Check the video.  The guy is a master craftsman.
http://maaheli.ee/main/archives/3054

and this QR Ghazala release:
http://www.discogs.com/Q-R-Ghazala-Threnody-To-The-New-Victims-Of-Hiroshima/release/260495

[pentd]

argh cant remember the name of the guy who also did some kinda biosonix thing bout insect life............... and plants too for that matter..

haha that insect musicians album by graeme revell was awesome when i was young, i got it on tape from a local goth guy who was older than me... now it sounds kinda cheezy but still its a great wierdfolk trip...

anthill noise anyone? upcomin summer madness!!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

The sound of crickets slowed down to 'human speed'. The speed determined by matching the average life-span of a cricket to that of a human. Quite amazing things in there.

https://soundcloud.com/acornavi/robert-wilson-crickets-audio

Got this link from friend. Was very impressed. Thought about linking it here, but it was already here. For fans of locusts & choral music - recommended.

[THE RITA HN]

Christian Nicolay's mic'd house fly with a clip and a pickup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGOzVfgjNK0

[pentd]

took me a while but i found what i meant a while a go: michael prime "fructification" !! not insect music but kinda related, and by listening to the bzzzzz hrrrrrrrr scapes one can easily say it's in the same field.. like so:

http://www.discogs.com/Michael-Prime-Fructification/release/582796

[Marko-V]

While visiting my parents' summer cottage in Lapland I cought a bee in the glass bottle and inserted a small microphone there. Some interesting results when the bee walked on the mic capsule. When listened through headphones, it sounds like something is scraping your eardrums. Anybody who has visited Lapland in summer knows the most annoying aspect of Laplandish summer: mosquitoes. They are usually quite silent but they have this habit of coming very close to your ears so you can hear that high squeling sound. I put some binaurals in my ears and recorded the whole mess. It gave me some hard time being immobile for the whole two or three minutes while being bitten all over. I haven't used those recordings anywhere... so far.
While visiting Asia the most audible thing beyond chaotic urban noise is/are the cascades and crickets which can be LOUD! Just as you hear in the "Brokenhearted dragonflies" -cd. I have used them in couple of tracks, like "Shizen no uta" (http://ikuinen-kaamos.blogspot.fi/2008/09/kahden-kulttuurin-ni.html) and "Field recording from Thailand" ...unaltered recording from our hotel room balcony early in the morning (https://archive.org/details/SalakapakkaSoundSystem-LaMusiqueConcrtePart2). There are usually very loud frogs too.