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Mark Burman encounters the sonic summer wonder of a cicada emergence not heard for 221 years.
What鈥檚 black and red and incredibly noisy?! Two broods of periodical cicadas (Brood XIII and Brood XIX) singing their love songs. Trillions emerged in the summer of 2024 in northern Illinois for the first time in 221 years. Mark Burman took his many microphones to Springfield's Lincoln Memorial Gardens, to revel in this insect cacophony. As he wanders through the woods he hears from excited school kids, musicians, poets & composers from as far afield as Japan and Ireland - also drawn to this sonic symphony of lovemaking and death!

Out of the 3390 species of cicada across the world there are but 3 that are periodical & only Magicicada sings in Northern America. Emerging every 17 or 13 years after a life in darkness. Their overpowering song has long exercised our imaginations. The earliest written records by colonists referred to them as 鈥榣ocusts. Noticing that Native Americans feasted on them but mostly the unsettling & enormous din of billions of insects whose courtship songs can be louder than a jumbo jet鈥檚 engines. Even now, in this man made world of machines and noise, these little insects resonate their tymbals (males only) to produce intense songs of love that hypnotically pummel your ears. For Japanese Bassist Quagero Imazawa, they speak to the oldest playback system of his land- singing insect cages as well as his childhood memories of cicada summer songs. He jammed along with Springfield's Magicidada's performing as musical co-stars for his latest album. So slip your headphones on, and listen in binaural sound to the trill of Cicada symphonies and their song cycle of life & death.