LAGOS, Nigeria
UNHUMAN SOUNDS! This morning I re-read a short story called "The Sound Machine" by Roald Dahl. It is human nature to delve into the unknown. We often speculate and explore the unseen; this story deals with someone who seeks to explore the unheard.
It was a scary tale, and where the story ended was a bookmark - a bus transfer dated March 25, 1963, left there as I finished reading. So it was over fifty years since I read this quirky tale about a man who discovered to his horror that plants make sounds, and even express pain. Since then, scientific research has shown that many living things - besides animals - do indeed produce sounds intentionally. We haven't realized that until recently, because these sounds are outside of our range of hearing.
I recall when the first eerie sounds of humpback wales were released. Who knew that wales communicated with each other??? Later I heard sounds made by the Universe itself - radio waves left over from the Big Bang. The radio waves
were converted to numbers, and then into audible sounds.
The other day I heard what sounds like a women's chorus - an angelic choir singing in a major key - with chord changes. It was a haunting yet oddly familiar air. But it wasn't human - it was the chirping of hundreds of crickets in a summer field! The sounds were altered - slowed down to a human time frame - and the result is astounding! It seems as though the peculiar man in the story I read was really on to something after all!!!
It goes to show you never can tell!!
Organic News: Slowed Down Recording of Crickets Sounds Like Humans Singing!
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This is VERY CREEPY, yet beautiful, and the melody is strangely familiar!?!? This reminds me of a Twilight Zone-ish story I read 50 years ago about a man who developed a machine capable of translating inaudible sounds into audible ones. He went insane when he discovered that all living things cry out in pain.
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