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Destroyer of Worlds - Eat 'n' Destroy 03:57
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Michael Hendley - crawling out of our skin 05:04
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onewayness - tymbal & syrinx 05:07
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THAT CLOUD - the fable of sound 05:11
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Raven Bauer Durham - Calling 03:17
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Lizard Hands - Cicada Hands 05:59
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Tag Cloud - Brooding 03:38
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Astral Tides - Circadian 04:27
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Chester Hawkins - Plague Madrigal 04:45
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Joo Won Park - 16th Fall 03:16
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Adam Vidiksis - Brood X Dreams of a Pool Party 05:51
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Patrick McMinn - when I walked to the tree two blocks north of my house the sound was nearly overwhelming 05:34
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Small Craft - they, like the comets, make but a short stay with us 04:43
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THAT - we cast off our shells only to die en mass [subterranean mix] 04:46
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XOM - Swarm 04:34
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tl0741 - Neither Expanding Nor Contracting 04:01
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James Wolf - X Minor 05:29
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Pas Musique - Cicadences 05:07
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Immanent Voiceless - untitled 04:59
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Love of Ruins - Brood X Mechanical Dancebot '38 06:41

about

In this compilation, musicians were given a sample palette with which to make their own original recording. For TYMBAL, this consisted of four hours of Brood X field recordings by Noel Mueller in Baltimore and Beau Finley in Washington, DC. In keeping with past Fuzzy Panda compilations, artists were limited to only the source samples without additional instrumentation. Yes, even the techno track only uses the allowed cicada sample sources. The results span the soft, forested hills of ambient drone to the skittering abstractions of modern computer music to noise in its varied harshness.

The cicadas don’t do the artists any favors. They are unrelentingly, almost uniformly, loud. They do not make melodies or rhythm, only pink noise. Because of this, each track represents a unique distillation of the cicadas’ sex screams.

Of his contribution, Chester Hawkins writes “[t]he breeding cycle of Brood X is famous for its overwhelming wall of static, so it was an irresistible challenge to find and exploit the sonic details: the crevices, wrinkles, folds, and brittle gaps in the screaming madness, and sculpt a new narrative using only those sounds.”

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released September 28, 2021

All artists used only field recordings of Brood X cicadas in the making of their tracks. Field recordings were made by Noel Mueller in Towson, Maryland and Beau Finley in Washington, D.C., and southern Montgomery County, Maryland.

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7-11, 13-20 mastered by Beau Finley at the B-Lab in Washington, D.C.

Further reading on cicadas:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-woman-who-solved-a-cicada-mystery-but-got-no-recognition/
www.scientificamerican.com/article/galileo-and-the-pope-who-loved-cicadas/

Fuzzy Panda Recording Company is grateful for the artists who took on this slightly ridiculous challenge and created a wonderful compilation to celebrate the 2021 edition of Brood X. May we all meet the children of 2021 Brood X in 2038.

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