I created 2 484hz sine tracks in Audacity. One was slightly distorted using Convoluter, then they were converted to a single stereo track and a separate wav file.
I was going to use this as the background for the track but – appropriately - it was so annoying at any volume that I put it through Soundscaper 2 to give it some warmth and musicality.
Part of the original 484 wav is used as an intro for the first minute and part of it is used (dropped by 4 octaves) as that deep bass sound towards the end.
The 484 wav file was ‘improvised’ on using ambient v.3 to create to “vocal” and effects track. This was double-tracked, the softer passages re-laid and amplified. The ending was also up-pitched 2 octaves and boosted to obtain that insect-y sound at the end.
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Step 1: Recent research by Brian Johnson and Scott Ritchie of the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine has revealed that 484 Hz is “the frequency of a female Aedes aegypti’s wings flapping,” and thus is the frequency that attracts the male of the species. You can read up here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-19/scientists-discover-frequency-traps-male-yellow-fever-mosquitoes/7084434
Step 2: Create a brief, seductive love song that somehow features the 484 Hz frequency.
More on this 212th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Make music intended to attract male mosquitoes”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2016/01/21/disquiet0212-484hzlovesongs/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
