A Lament in Feedback, a Diorama of Dead Rodents

Grief asks for a particular kind of attention, and most people fail at giving it. We schedule the funeral. We write the eulogy. We deliver the line about how she would have wanted everyone to laugh. Then we drive home and stand in the kitchen with no idea what comes next.Art walks into that silence. It rarely explains a loss. It holds the loss somewhere outside the body for a while, which turns out to be the more useful service. Two projects sitting an ocean and a genre apart perform the same job: one through drone and feedback, the other through dozens of dead rodents dressed as townspeople.The Lament in the DroneAnton Lambert and Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris recorded tri-n-os in Athens and released it in October 2025 on the Trento label Kohlhaas. The title borrows the ancient Greek θρήνος: lament, wail, mourning. According to the label's description, the work "unfolds as a deep delve into the realm of improvisation, drone and feedback." No verses. No chorus. Nothing resolving. The…