17-year cicadas recorded 9/16/2008 along the bank of the East Fork of the Little Miami River north of Williamsburg Ohio off Blue Sky Park Road. Begins with cicadas and aquatic textures from the river. At 0:48, an automobile passes by. At 1:40, a distant piston-powered aircraft flies by. At 2:19 another auto. At 2:29, a distant dog's bark softly echoes. At 3:15, a distant jet plane passes. At 4:10, a fly obsessively examines the windscreen, makes numerous passes. h4 AT825 FMX-32 mic muff

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  j__f__c__ 2 years, 3 months ago

  very nice and flangey! thanks
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  hammerklavier 4 years, 5 months ago

  well, fellow midwesterner, you know the locusts too! A nice constant din with some great interruptions, I'm glad you stuck around long enough to capture life going on as usual in the background. When I told people about the 17 year locusts, they thought I was on drugs (either that or I was some Bible freak intent on the End of Days)...When I was a kid and concrete hadn't yet taken over Chicago, you saw these buggers everywhere, and they were big & glitzy and fell on you and covered the frickin' ground like a carpet & never shut the f__k up! (Little shits!) Day & night...And you saw the larvae & shells the spring before (everywhere), and they left the place a mess after they died. (Never cleaned up, never left a "thank you" note, nothin'). Glad you caught them so the rest of the world knows they really exist here in the sticks. Great to revisit your gallery again! (Well, sound gallery!)
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  ERH 4 years, 11 months ago

  My ear to your good earth. A fly!