Slapdash

A few months ago I guess I was part of a ten-minute multimedia performance. Avery Burke of Corpus Callosum lectured briefly on three species that, I think he said, had “made his world a little bit bigger.” One of them was the isopod, and he sounded a little like isopod:

Isopods just crack me up. They’re in your garden, they’re at the bottom of the ocean, they’re purple with alien eyes, they eat some fishes tongues and attach themselves to the stump, becoming the only known case of a parasite functionally replacing a muscle. They become the fish’s tongue! They eat whales. Did I mention they’re purple?

… only less engrossed by purple. As Avery talked, I played a set of semi-improvised electric-guitar-and-electronics pieces based on what I thought he was going to say (I’d heard him talk about the animals but we didn’t rehearse at all), while my partner Kate drew illustrations of what Avery said the creatures were like. Well, and based a little on having seen them. Anyway, here’s the isopod, in honor of isopod’s name.