The Culture File Weekly: Cicada Safari

Published: June 28, 2024, 4 p.m.

The double emergence (for the first time in more than 200 years) of periodical cicada Broods XIX and XIII inspired a band of sound recordists, musicians, poets, composers, entomologists and environmentalists to gather beneath the trees in Illinois this June to listen, record and improvise with a trillion piece orchestra of singing critters.