Chance Meeting
Friday July 5th, 2024 with Heavy Ben
environments: cicadas, crickets, katydids

Chance meeting on an environment of a psychologically ultimate bloom and a deafening buzz In the tradition of environments mastermind Irv Teibel, Numero’s crack team of audio archivists have documented 2024’s once-in-two centuries cicada super bloom phenomena. The collision of the XIX and XIII broods last occurred in 1803, 57 years before the first sound recording was captured, making Numero’s state of the art audio a first in human history. Armed with a Zoom Handy Recorder H4N, Tascam DR-40X, and Olympus LS-12 Linear PCM Recorder, Stephen Arndt, Ken Shipley, and Tim Zawada trawled the forests of central Illinois on the hunt for the mating clicks, ambient screams, and zealous fly-bys of this curious clockwork insect. The Psychologically Ultimate 220 Year Cicada Super Bloom also marks the return of the environments series, which bowed in 1979 with Alpine Blizzard and Country Thunderstorm recordings. “Irv Teibel’s visionary environments helped an ever-disconnecting humanity reconvene with nature and changed the way we heard the world,” Numero co-founder Ken Shipley said. “Numero is honored to resume his work at this critical and uncertain juncture for our planet. We may never experience this confluence of beautiful cicada rackets again, but we’re committed to making sure their deafening buzz continues to ring in our ears long after the last bug molts.” two hour environments primer on Heavy Friends, marking Irv Teibel's birthday in 2021 https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/410/53730.html Environments — Growing Up Syntonic (Jennifer Ballow, daughter of Irv Teibel)) https://numerogroup.com/blogs/stories/environments-growing-up-syntonic environments - The Psychologically Ultimate 220 Year Cicada Super Bloom https://boomkat.com/products/the-psychologically-ultimate-220-year-cicada-super-bloom (to embiggen the show icon, right-click and choose "Open image in new tab")