The clearing gave me an amphitheater of grasshoppers and crickets, never constant, permanently flowing, rising and falling, sometimes very rhythmic, then textural again but still mobile, agile, I listen to just one for a while then I hear the group again, the calls, the answers, the group reacting to a single action. In a foreign country I was given cicadas: bigger, louder, more singing, like flutes. The internet gave me information, data, research, documentaries, it opened my eyes to the variety of these animals and their mysterious ways.