Noise #109

Beautiful stars inside a rat's eye

There’s massive ugliness on display around the world right now—but there’s also microscopic beauty to be found.

Via Science News:

A glimpse of the back of a rat’s eye, and the immune cells that keep it healthy, won first place in the 2023 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition. The image, composed of multiple snapshots captured with a confocal microscope, was taken by neuroscientist Hassanain Qambari of the Lions Eye Institute’s Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science in Perth, Australia.

I recorded Noise #109 while staring into the stunning rainbows of a rat’s optic nerve. The music explores the idea of finding grand beauty in vanishingly small places.