Listening To The Crickets' Song
Perfectly synchronized with the setting sun, the first cricket sounds forth, like the first-violin concertmaster of a symphony orchestra draws his bow across the strings, establishing tonality, and soon another cricket, then another joins in, as the day dims, creating the appropriate ambience for the nocturnal chorale, distinct parts audible to a discerning ear, perhaps a variant of the pentatonic system found cross-culturally, and possibly cross-species, the cricket song being the sound-scape for a mating ritual ensuring that connoisseurs will continue to be enraptured by the pulsating, throbbing call-&-response swelling into an all-night-steady-state oratorio, serenading every blessed summer, in perpetuity, world without end, amen 5,027KB Credits: HT/song/voc/guitar, Holly Haebig/magic flute |