We got the tck/tck/tck insect buzzing noise to alert us to the presence of the Smoke Monster – which used to be a surefire reason to run.
As a boy, I would experience a frightening sound, somewhere between white noise and insect buzzing, while feeling a dark presence in the room.
An appalling night, she thought, in her dramatic way: dense and swollen and thick and airless, every once-green sprig dead or dying, every annoying insect buzzing through a paltry life cycle that would be over almost before it began.
By mid-May, the Alley Pond marshes should be thriving again, he said -- bustling with wildlife and thick with fresh young phragmites and cattails and noisy with bird cries, insect buzzes and reeds rustling.
The other correspondences set up – between birdsong and rich rivulets of motion, between insect buzzes and jointed jitters, between the wayward noises of Thom Willems's electronic score and the bewitching flair and amazing detail of the choreography – come to seem as communicative and as ungraspable as languages without words.
He does not like bees, flies, or any other insect buzzing around him, and he questions all the different noises he hears in our neighborhood.
Stevens's reflections have an outdoor setting, and you can almost hear the insects buzz and the birds chirp.
But along a stretch of County Road, the red-eyed insects buzz lazily from tree to tree, sometimes devoured in midflight by birds.
We see Hamburger naming and caressing the species among his windfalls, recalling an enthusiasm shared with Ted Hughes, plucking apples from his trees while late flowers nod and lazy insects buzz around him in the dog days.
Barges saunter by, insects buzz, and the occasional bird makes a foray from the marshier banks of the Rhine itself, a kilometre away.
