There is a silence spreading through our cities. Not the stillness of peace, but the quiet of disappearance. A creeping absence that follows wherever too much has been cleared, paved, sprayed, controlled. This silence is a symptom of the slow disappearance of urban biodiversity. A fragile system whose collapse begins unnoticed.

I Can No Longer Hear the Noise of Crickets transforms this ecological erosion into sound. Familiar yet fading, the chorus of crickets becomes an audible memory, a form of sonic reminder of what once pulsed in the background but now has long fallen silent. This is not a simulation of nature. It is an echo of its disappearance.

The swarm of digital crickets emulates a living network of insects exchanging information in real time, forming a distributed acoustic system. Each synthetic agent responds to its neighbors through rhythmic alignment and local feedback, producing a fragile, emergent choir.

Drawing from research in information diffusion theory and bioacoustics, the installation is modeled on natural cricket chorusing, where synchronization arises through decentralized signal modulation.

Credits

Bio-Engineering advisor Bogdan Elefteriu

Bioacoustic ecologist advisor Prof. Elián Murmure

Manufacturing Node Maker Space

Concept Design, Software Development and Production - InDialog Team