{"id":3811,"date":"2013-05-23T20:51:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T03:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2014-03-23T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T20:58:40","slug":"are-you-a-musician-do-a-duet-with-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/are-you-a-musician-do-a-duet-with-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a musician? Do a duet with cicadas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Here is the show that featured the finished cicada songs: <a href=\"http:\/\/wfmu.org\/playlists\/shows\/51182\">http:\/\/wfmu.org\/playlists\/shows\/51182<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are you a musician? Would you go out in the field ( or your yard ) and jam with some cicadas? <em>WFMU DJ <a href=\"http:\/\/wfmu.org\/playlists\/KU\">Kurt Gottschalk<\/a><\/em> wants you to send him your duets with cicadas!<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/spearmintmusic.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/send-me-your-insect-duets-wfmu-17-year.html?m=1\">Send Me Your Insect Duets! WFMU 17-Year Itch Special Forthcoming!<\/a> to learn more about Kurt&#8217;s appeal to musicians. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI want to hear you sing with the cicadas! They&#8217;re out in DC and starting to emerge in Jersey. From what I&#8217;ve been able to discern there&#8217;s little agreement about where they&#8217;ll be in NYC.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My friends form the band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blithedoll.com\/bio.html\">Blithe Doll<\/a> are already planning on contributing their cicada collaboration. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of musicians who have jammed with cicadas, here is David Rothenberg jamming with some 17 year cicadas:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oCxDxHttvl4?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David also has a new album called Bug Music featuring his collaborations with insects!<\/p>\n<p>Last night at the Judson Church in NYC I opened David&#8217;s &#8220;Richard Robinson: Song of the Cicada (World Premiere), Insect Music, based on the calls, chirps and clicks of various insects&#8221; event with a presentation about the 17 Year cicadas. David&#8217;s film and music were extraordinary. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concertonet.com\/scripts\/review.php?ID_review=9183\">a review of the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8796946198_c5d75ffebb.jpg\" alt=\"Cicada Event\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8796946198_c5d75ffebb.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8796946198_c5d75ffebb-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8796946198_c5d75ffebb-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8786366903_6a85a63621.jpg\" alt=\"cicadas in Washington Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8786366903_6a85a63621.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8786366903_6a85a63621-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8786366903_6a85a63621-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Here is the show that featured the finished cicada songs: http:\/\/wfmu.org\/playlists\/shows\/51182 Are you a musician? Would you go out in the field ( or your yard ) and jam with some cicadas? WFMU DJ Kurt Gottschalk wants you to send him your duets with cicadas! Visit Send Me Your Insect Duets! WFMU 17-Year Itch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,199,155,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magicicada","category-music","category-periodical","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}