First there were the singing cats (below) and singing dogs. The Week tips us off to the fact that now we have the singing bats — bats singing the 1960s Neal Hefti “Batman” theme:
Humans can’t hear their ultrasonic screeching unless we digitally lower the frequency to something our ears can distinguish. Which is at least partly how we ended up with this: The original 1960s Batman theme, as sung by an artificial chorus of noisy bats. It was arranged by German composer Ulrich Seidel, who assigned each of the keys on his keyboard a different ultrasound sampled from real bats.
And here’s what we get:
Here’s the original opening:
Don’t forget the singing cats, though:
And the singing dogs:
bat photo via shutterstock.com
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.