The Insect Musicians

Includes a 12 pages A4 booklet about insect sounds and sampling technologies used for the recordings.
Thanks to the BBC and the British Wildlife Sounds for recordings.

Created from:
A1 - Indonesian cicada, meadow grasshopper, Death's Head hawkmoth, African cicada.
A2 - Tse tse fly, giant woodwasp, Bog Bush cricket, rufous grasshopper, wood cricket.
A3 - Gnats (courtship swarm), hawkmoth, hornet, Oakleaf miner, giant woodwasp.
A4 - Screech beetle, African cicada, field cricket, wood boring beetle, conehead grasshopper, hive bees (worker & disturbed swarm).
A5 - red wasp, Indian cicada, field cricket.
B1 - house cricket, European cicada, wood boring beetle, African cicada, hornet, queen bee (laying).
B2 - field cricket, wood cricket, Indonesian cicada, Deathwatch beetle, Death's Head hawkmoth.
B3 - drone fly, field cricket, Australian cicada, queen bee.
B4 - hive bees (disturbed), wood boring beetle, queen bee, European cicada, Death's Head hawkmoth.
B5 - hive bees, house cricket, queen bee, Oakleaf miner, worker bee.

Text and design for Musique Brut, 1986.
Made in England