Oh WOW!
That’s…something else entirely.
So violent! Yet also subtle and quiet.
Yields immediate visceral reactions.
The entire instrument is so thoroughly explored.
How does one remember such a piece?
Or keep the original bow and strings to the end?
Striking. Marvelous. Beautiful. I’m all for it.

An amendment of something conjured by it:

It’s not safe out here. It’s wonderous; with treasures vibrations to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it’s not for the timid.

TIL. Thank you!

but the piece that truly brought him to international attention was Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (see threnody and atomic bombing of Hiroshima), written in 1960 for 52 string instruments. In it, he makes use of extended instrumental techniques (for example, playing behind the bridge, bowing on the tailpiece).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki

Username checks out.

Looks like iron sulfide, pyrite, and greigite in this case.

Highlights from this rabbit hole: “imbricating chitinous sclerites” and “conchiolin”.

https://www.marinebio.org/species/scaly-foot-snails/chrysomallon-squamiferum/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15522-3

https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-abstract/114/4/949/2415936

Ceratocaryum argenteum
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/581940-Ceratocaryum-argenteum

Faecal mimicry by seeds ensures dispersal by dung beetles
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gary-Bronner/publication/282618768_Faecal_mimicry_by_seeds_ensures_dispersal_by_dung_beetles/links/569a066408ae6169e5532ca2/Faecal-mimicry-by-seeds-ensures-dispersal-by-dung-beetles.pdf

DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2015.141

Not just you, relieved to see someone else express it. I always intended to give Neuromancer another try, but I got distracted. Now y’all have inspired me to shift it back to the top of the reading list.

It can’t be as difficult as Lies, Inc, right?

Mitch Hedberg: Where the fuck you get that banana telophase cucumber at?

Yeeahh!

Kill Your Lawn, NYT

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327709524_Please_more_tears_a_case_of_a_moth_feeding_on_antbird_tears_in_central_Amazonia