CAT013: "Sonifying the Sun" Patrick Quinn

Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical Cicadas, Volume 1   Patrick Quinn "Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical Cicadas, Volume 1" (CAT013) by Patrick Quinn "For this project, I used a variety of microphones and listening devices—an omnidirectional pair, geophones, hydrophones, contact microphones, and electromagnetic receivers—in an effort to listen to the cicadas and their surroundings in different ways. Periodical cicadas are amazing creatures that spend nearly their entire lives underground as immature insects; they come up for a few weeks once every either 13 or 17 years to molt into adults, bask in the sun, mate, lay eggs, and then die. In May and June 2024, trillions of cicadas belonging to Brood XIII (17-year cicada) and Brood XIX (13-year cicada) emerged from their underground burrows across the Midwest and South—a convergent phenomenon that occurs once every 221 years. In Illinois, Brood XIII (sometimes refe