“(By moving) I'm making sounds on the drums of spacetime"… "Space itself wobbles and rumbles like a drum… Black holes can bang on spacetime like mallets on a drum”

—  Janna Levin

(2010) http://youtube.com/watch?v=eLz9TvxGoKs

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