Mozzie Music

Post date: Jun 23, 2017 7:32:36 AM

Kingsley Reeve, an associate lecturer in sound at Australia's National Institute for Dramatic Art in Sydney, enjoys making soundscapes that "get under your skin." In this piece called The Water, he has used the recordings of male and female Asian tiger mosquitos, Aedes albopictus, but has combined them and slowed them down in such a way that they sound annoying, they sound ominous.

Here's the sound of the female Asian Tiger mosquito:


And here's the sound of the male Asian Tiger mosquito:

And here's the two combined, and slowed right down: