The idea of this piece comes from a story I imagined. In this story, the main character spends his whole life searching for different kinds of cicadas because he heard the sound of a special genus of cicada, Magicicada, when he was a child. He learns the truth of life from the behavior of cicadas, which helps him live a happy life. But he never heard the sound of Magicicada again. Early in the summer after his children buried him, Magicicada’s voice suddenly echoed in the valley. All his family and friends were intoxicated by the special sound, a sound so beautiful that everyone felt connected to him.

By using different samples of different types of cicada, this soundscape composition not only shows the circle of a cicada’s life by using cicada sounds in different phases of the summer but also shows a circle of all life, as one can pass on their own experience to the next generation.