With “Cicada”, Taroug meditates on how sound and environment entwine, pulling the hidden frequencies of the natural world into the realm of electronic composition. The track bends the drone of insects and the brittle strike of dead stalactites into percussive foundations. Vocals processed to echo the fractured cadence of insect calls make the piece feel less like a song and more like a living ecosystem in motion: decay becomes rhythm, noise becomes pattern, and what’s usually background hum is reframed as centre stage.
The visual, created with architect and designer Marie Brosius, extends this transformation into motion. Thousands of AI-generated frames collide with satellite textures and cicada-wing microstructures, producing a pulsing digital ritual that flickers like an organism in flux.
