This sort of jamming with cicadas happens once every 17 years

This summer, billions of cicadas are emerging from their 17-year existence underground to send a great buzz over much of North America.

David Rothenberg is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Rather than get annoyed with all the bug racket, he’s decided to collaborate with them on some music. Rothenberg loves cicadas.

He’s been doing this for a while, too. Here’s another one of his interspecies jams from 2013 that he calls “Bug Music.”