A phenomenon that seems to have escaped the attention of many researchers is how insects in the area of Cambridge, UK, deal with heat waves - maybe because of the relative rarity of heat waves in that part of the UK until recently. Whan dealing with rising temperatures, local insects tend to swarm together and organise their vocalisations into regular patterns that follow a progression not unlike that of cellular automata. Surprisingly, different kinds and geni of insects tend to join in and lock into the pattern together, suggesting a kind of inter-species communication that has also escaped our scrutiny

In fact, in an unpublished article, Martin Gardner has ventured the hypothesis that the late John H. Conway might have been influenced by the sounds of insects while working on his particular version of cellular automata - what we nowadays know as Conway's Game of Life...


...Of course, I'm making things up again. "Insect Automata Swarm" is my contribution to this week's Disquiet Junto project #0503: "Global Swarming". For this project, I used no less than 39 of the available insect sounds, and structured the "swarm" by using four out-of-phase cellular automata objects in Pure Data. The result is a slightly cacofonous, part-machinic and part-organic, but always organised rumble and noise.

Sound sampled here proceed from two previous Disquiet Junto projects: 

Disquiet Junto #0494: "Insect Menagerie": 

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0494

and Disquiet Junto #0498: "Sonic Entomologist"

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0498

Samples include work by @analoc, @ausgesuchtestenohren, Bbob Drake, Bee Kind, Bick Brannigan III, Breanna Johnston, Caustic Gates, @creaturesonce, Fake Genius, Gary Barwin, Gerard Paresys, Karmic Resonance, K. Joule, Krakenkraft, Lewlaufer, @Losanch, Michael Ash, @Net, @morgulbee, Parallel Tool, Paul Beaudoin, Piney Boy, Radio Hummingbird, Richard Fichera, Scott Boone, @seramind, @wasabicube, @zedkah, @Zounzabar, et al.

More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

Disquiet Junto #0502: Global Swarming

Insect Automata Swarm (disquiet0502)

For Disquiet Junto Project 0502: Global Swarming I remixed https://soundcloud.com/seramind/insect-2-disquiet0494?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0494 with https://soundcloud.com/user-130801280/clicker-fly-disquiet0494?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0494 in order to create a swarm of imaginary insects.

More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by David Hoffman, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/aePCyj

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Swarm Hybridization [disquiet0502]

Participation in the "Disquiet Junto" project led by Marc Weidenbaum: Global Swarming.
The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects.
https://disquiet.com/0502/
from the insect: Cimex Resonare by acoustic_mirror
https://soundcloud.com/acoustic_mirror/cimex-resonare-disquiet0494

With a Pure Data patch and edition with Audacity.

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Participation au projet "Disquiet Junto" de Marc Weidenbaum: Un essaim global.
Créer un essaim d'insectes imaginaires.

Avec un patch Pure Data, édition avec Audacity.

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Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:
https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: 
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: 
https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: 
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

Image by David Hoffman:
https://flic.kr/p/aePCyj
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

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