Invertebrate high-five! 🐙 Octopuses feel, smell and taste the world around them through their suckers, while sea urchins use their tiny tube feet to move about the seafloor and pass food to their mouth.
The shell is amazing, it looks like an entire other animal. I’m keeping the claws to dry preserve and she’s getting the rest of it back so she can eat it. (Its good for them)
“Pyrosomes, genus Pyrosoma, are free-floating colonial tunicates that live usually in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas, although some may be found at greater depths. Pyrosomes are cylindrical- or conical-shaped colonies made up of hundreds to thousands of individuals, known as zooids. Colonies range in size from less than one centimeter to several metres in length.
Each zooid is only a few millimetres in size, but is embedded in a common gelatinous tunic that joins all of the individuals. Each zooid opens both to the inside and outside of the “tube”, drawing in ocean water from the outside to its internal filtering mesh called the branchial basket, extracting the microscopic plant cells on which it feeds, and then expelling the filtered water to the inside of the cylinder of the colony. The colony is bumpy on the outside, each bump representing a single zooid, but nearly smooth, though perforated with holes for each zooid, on the inside.
Pyrosomes are planktonic, which means their movements are largely controlled by currents, tides, and waves in the oceans. On a smaller scale, however, each colony can move itself slowly by the process of jet propulsion, created by the coordinated beating of cilia in the branchial baskets of all the zooids, which also create feeding currents.
Pyrosomes are brightly bioluminescent, flashing a pale blue-green light that can be seen for many tens of metres. The name Pyrosoma comes from the Greek (pyro = “fire”, soma = “body”). Pyrosomes are closely related to salps, and are sometimes called “fire salps”.
Sailors on the ocean are occasionally treated to calm seas containing many pyrosomes, all luminescing on a dark night.” (x)
I actually finished a song. Can you believe it? I can’t!
This was my first time completely breaking the rules of NES music in one of my songs - On top of using two expansion chips rather than one, I decided to do some mixing to make this into a stereo track. It was easier in some areas than I thought.
Still, I really enjoy this track, and I hope I did the original justice with this cover. I can definitely tell certain parts where I’m a bit rusty, volume balance in particular, but I’d rather work on newer songs and potentially also add a tune to a certain collaboration album than fuss that much longer on this one.
As usual, comments, criticisms, and conundrums are all welcome.
