[Fredslist] Insect Music

[Joel Chadabe]

Hello Gotham,

Here's a very special event about cicadas. It's a film/panel/concert produced by Ear to the Earth to celebrate the 17-year emergence of periodical cicadas.

Every 17 years periodical cicadas emerge from their underground lives among roots, shed their exoskeletons, and begin a brief adult life in trees looking for a mate. The songs cicadas sing are made mostly by the males who flex and unflex a muscle in their abdomens to make a clicking sound. The males sing, the females listen, they mate, produce eggs, and the young cicadas eventually fall to the ground and dig to live on roots for the next 17 years as did their parents.

The emergence is a major occasion. We've invited Dan Mozgai, cicada expert, to speak about the periodic cicadas' mating habits. We're hosting the world premiere of Richard Robinson’s 30-minute film Song of the Cicadas. We've invited a panel, moderated by Robert Krulwich, founder of Radiolab, to discuss the film.

And we've brought Pauline Oliveros, David Rothenberg, Timothy Hill, and Garth Stevenson together to perform with the sounds of insects.

Wednesday May 22 @ 7:30pm
Judson Church
55 Washington Square South
Manhattan

Here's a link for more information:

http://www.eartotheearth.org/insectmusic_overview.html


I hope to see you there!


Best,

Joel



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