#pisaura

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nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) are flashy but annoying spiders, taunting you with their size as they disappear into the grass. this one stood out by being completely still out in the open and only moving slightly when poked. the complete lack of self-preservation is unusual but no complaints from me or the local birds probably

(April 7th, 2025)

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Almindelig rovedderkop (Pisaura mirabilis)

Hun med ægsæk.

Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)

Female with egg sack.

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Almindelig rovedderkop (Pisaura mirabilis)

Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)

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Ungenet af Almindelig rovedderkop (Pisaura mirabilis)

Nursery web of a Nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis)

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Almindelig rovedderkop (Pisaura mirabilis)

En temmelig almindelig edderkop, som ofte findes oppe i vegetationen, hvor den aktivt søger efter bytte.

Dette eksemplar havde fået sig forvildet indenfor.

Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)

A faily common spider, often found roaming the lower vegetation in search of prey.

This specimen had found its way into the house.

[dustedmagazine]

Pisaura — Asteraceae (Sedimental)

Perhaps the broadest theme that Michael Pisaro-Liu’s music has engaged over the past decade is the possibility that humanity live more harmoniously with the natural world. Broad is as good a word as any, since the works that most explicitly address this theme are big ones; Continuum Unbound consists of three CDs, each 72 minutes in length, and Nature Denatured and Found Again comprises five CDs, each 48 minutes long. On Asteraceae, he gets pithy, but also reaches higher than ever before. It is a single CD, one more lasting 72 minutes. But it is simultaneously grounded by geography and guided by the stars.

Pisaura-Asteraceae by SEDIMENTAL

Pisaura is a collaboration between Pisaro-Liu and Zizia, the already extent partnership of astrologist Amber Wolfe and horticulturalist/entomologist Jarrod Fowler. But the number of humans involved is drastically smaller than the number of collaborators listed on the webpage that Zizia have created to elucidate Asteraceae’s components and influences. A very incomplete list of those collaborators includes Clarkia amoena (Lehm.) A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr.; Aluminum Foil; Aspectek Yard Sentinel Ultrasonic Outdoor Pest & Animal Repellant; Gingko biloba L.; Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb Guitar Amplifier; Na2O; Unami-Vibe Chorus/Vibrato; and Yamaha Concert Grand Piano. It would seem that every tool used, element or life-form involved, or publication consulted during the composition, recording, and mastering of this work is a collaborator. Take that, hierarchies. And the name of the album, which is borrowed from a large family of flowering plants, further suggests that part of the point of this endeavor is to recognize that everything is connected, and that the dimensions of each collaborator’s contribution do not correspond to their value.  

So how does this vast web of information, equipment, and influences get transmuted into sound? The score was developed by using astrological charts to organize performances made using field recordings and musical actions. Rushing water, distant birds and further distance airplanes, whose titles are written backwards, share room with evidently human actions and blurry tunes. The keyboard melodies on “Venus Scorpio 19° 4th” and “Sun Sagittarius 19° 4th” feel like snatches from some overheard church service; “Pluto Libra 0° 3rd” sounds like a cut-up sequence of distant drum beats. Nothing sounds big and not much lasts long, but their cumulative effect is somewhat like a walk in the woods; each apparently organized moment seems to be part of a greater whole that fits together, but is too vast to completely perceive. Humans have asserted that that they contain multitudes, and maybe they do; however, Asteraceae invites you, dear human, to consider just what a speck in vastness you really are.

Bill Meyer

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Almindelig rovedderkop (Pisaura mirabilis) hun med ægsæk

Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis) female with egg-sack

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Almindelig Rovedderkop (Pisaura mirabilis)

Nursery Web Spider  (Pisaura mirabilis)