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David Rothenberg (born 1962) is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music.He is also a composer and jazz musician whose books and recordings reflect a longtime interest in understanding other species such as singing insects by making music with them.
These insects use scraper-like structures on one wing to sweep over file-structures on an opposing wing to create vibrations, producing a variety of trilling and chirping sounds. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Locusts and other grasshoppers (suborder Caelifera ) stridulate by rubbing hind legs against pegs on wing surfaces in an up and downward motion. [ 17 ]
Insect-inspired songs Name of song Insect order Composer Performing artist Date Type of music Notes BUGZ! Insects-general Mina Bloom & Mark Generous Mina Bloom & Doctor Generous 2023 Electronic music: A pro-bug song about how important they are to humans [3] Six-Limbed Drummer Hemiptera: David de la Haye Adam Stapleford 2022 Free Jazz /Improv
Insects have appeared in music from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" to such popular songs as "Blue-tailed Fly" and the folk song La Cucaracha which is about a cockroach. Insect groups mentioned include bees, ants, flies and the various singing insects such as cicadas, crickets, and beetles, while other songs refer to bugs in general.
The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.
A tymbal thrown into vibration (as when cicada is singing), more highly magnified The tymbal (or timbal ) is the corrugated exoskeletal structure used to produce sounds in insects. In male cicadas , the tymbals are membranes in the abdomen, responsible for the characteristic sound produced by the insect.
Young@Heart, also Young@Heart Chorus, is an entertainment group created by and for the elderly, comprised at present of people at least 70 years of age.Some have prior professional theater or music experience, others have performed at amateur level, and some have no experience whatsoever.
Integrated Pest Management requires the museum to allocate time and energy for the implementation and monitoring the progress of their program. An IPM program “will require the coordinated effort of all staff members to properly implement, and may initially be more expensive than traditional pest management”. [7]