A thirty-second field recording of crickets and cicadas plays forwards five seconds, reverse four seconds, forwards five seconds, etc, slowly winding through the full thirty seconds of data.  Every noise is repeated numerous times in symmetry.  Because of the ambient, complex nature of the sounds recorded, forwards and reverse have no perceptible difference from one another, and the piece sounds at first to be one extended, unedited field recording.  Closer listening reveals the pops, skips, or repetitions inherent in a poorly edited sound-sample. 

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