Caveat: wiu-wiu-wiu-wiu-wiu-wiu-wiu-wiu-waaaaaaa

There's that really distinctive "Asian cicada" sound.   Sustained, repetitive "wiu wiu wiu" and then suddenly a shift to slightly lower, flatter tone that is held for four or five beats "waaaaaa."   My musicologist friends could describe it better, I'm sure, if they heard it.

I don't recall hearing that particular, very distinctive cicada sound anywhere in the US (that doesn't mean I've never heard it… just that it never seemed salient).  But I remember it from summer in Korea in 91, and from my summers here more recently.  The one other place I've heard it and really noticed it, is in Japanese anime — it seems to function like an audio signifier for "hot, humid, summer stillness," kind of the way traditional crickets chirping signifies "silence" in American cartoons.

I really like the sound.

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