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Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination (www.404media.co)

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Silly tardigrade's playing on the wrong side of the bridge. Do they teach nothing at tardigrade music school?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He's playing Penderecki

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Threnody is definitely his most famous, but he has used that technique in some of his solo compositions for cello as well - example

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Threnody to the Victims of Health Insurance Companies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's also not even a violin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's hard to tell. It looks deep like a cello, but the bridge doesn't look quite high enough. Maybe at the tardigrade scale stringed instruments are made a little differently.