{"id":331,"date":"2011-12-29T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/?p=331"},"modified":"2016-12-30T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T19:03:18","slug":"an-interesting-musical-parallel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/2011\/12\/29\/an-interesting-musical-parallel\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Musical Parallel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolab.org\/2011\/oct\/04\/everythingnothing\/#\">episode<\/a> of Radiolab discusses William Basinski&#8217;s disintegration loops.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[&#8230;]<\/em>William Basinski, a composer who loops analog tape to create a unique sort of music. One day, Basinski dug up some of his old tapes, stuck them into his player, and heard a melody in the throes of death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re beautiful. They sound like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zhfKK547r94\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After listening to a few of these I realized there&#8217;s a whole other musical domain full of short loops and slowed down melodies: The chopped and screwed style of Houston Rap. Here&#8217;s a quintessential example:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DMvaxNhh44k\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Basinski has worked in New York for the past 25 years, but where was he born?<\/p>\n<p>Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent episode of Radiolab discusses William Basinski&#8217;s disintegration loops. [&#8230;]William Basinski, a composer who loops analog tape to create a unique sort of music. One day, Basinski dug up some of his old tapes, stuck them into his player, and heard a melody in the throes of death. They&#8217;re beautiful. They sound like this: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/2011\/12\/29\/an-interesting-musical-parallel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Interesting Musical Parallel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[54,56,55,53],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nontechnical","tag-disintegration-loops","tag-dj-screw","tag-houston-rap","tag-william-basinski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trillworks.com\/nick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}