The purpose of the circuit is to imitate the chirping of the cricket for use as gadgets for amusement and props while being powered by 5V to 12V batteries. The purpose of the circuit is to imitate the ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - Jiminy Crickets. It sounds like fall out there. Like clockwork, the sound of crickets began to creep into my summer evenings during the first week in August, just when summer ...

Many listeners have been fascinated by a recording that was supposedly produced from slowed-down tapes of crickets chirping, producing something that sounds remarkably like a human chorus: Composer ...

SAN ANTONIO — One of the most famous and controversial American musical compositions is John Cage's 1952 “silent work” titled “4'33”” in which the score instructs the musicians not to play their ...

To make this familiar summer sound, the male cricket holds his nerve and “stridulates” – rubbing his back legs together in order to entice a female. He knows this makes him vulnerable. What a female ...

Through the years I have admonished readers to “Slow down and take a closer look.” This time around I would like to suggest that you “Close your eyes and listen.” That’s right: just listen. The wind ...

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For the past 14 years, visitors to the mothballed Lower Saucon Elementary School on Wassergass Road have found it deserted. If they return this fall, they’ll still hear crickets, but this time it ...