The night scene

Sound credits

The cricket and cicada calls are real recordings, hosted here so listening does not contact an outside audio service. Sound starts after interacting with the scene and can be muted by touching the lantern.

Field cricket

Field cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus, recorded by Thatcher, 2009. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 3.0. Download the MP3 recording.

Cicada

Cicada sound, recorded by Schwiki, 2016. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0. Download the MP3 recording.

The files are Wikimedia Commons’ MP3 transcodes. During playback, excerpts are faded, positioned in stereo, gently varied in speed, and mixed at low volume; the cicada is high-pass filtered. The adapted playback of each recording is offered under the same respective ShareAlike license. No endorsement is implied.

Wind, tree rustles, distant howls, and paper sounds are generated locally by the website.

The Bible close-up quotes Hebrews 12:1–2 from the public-domain King James Version, verified against Bible Gateway.