If you can't beat 'em

17-Year Cicada   (1930 image by Robert Evans Snodgrass)

You can view cicadas as a nuisance, or you can view them as fellow musicians.  Professor David Rothenberg of the New Jersey Institute of Technology prefers the latter.

Rothenberg grabbed his clarinet as the buggers swarmed a nature preserve in Princeton.  Joining them were percussion and sax players.  Band members took their musical cues from the cicadas’ "loud buzzing calls.”

At best, such "trills" have been called “white noise.”  At worst, a migraine headache.  Yet Rothenberg was able to detect “several distinct sounds” within the cacophony, which he and his crew incorporated into their jazzy jam.

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