{"id":1235,"date":"2008-06-09T06:53:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T06:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2008-06-09T06:53:34","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T06:53:34","slug":"signal-to-noise-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Signal to Noise to Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll have to forgive the weak emptiness of this end of The Nation. I’ve either not had the time and not made the time needed to throw together words of woe, wisdom or otherwise. Short bursts is all I can mange these days.<\/p>\n

We will try for themes though. This week will be music. My searches will refine to anything audio or visual. Anything worth a damn on the listening scale.<\/p>\n

Ectomo’s Noise Du Jour <\/a>kicks the week off with the tried but true “noise from random electronic objects that somehow makes a listenable sound experience.” Radiohead ran a mix contest for their song “Nude” and this is one of what they got: Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Big Ideas (don’t get any)<\/a> from James Houston<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>. <\/div>\n

The orchestra assembled?<\/p>\n

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  • Sinclair ZX Spectrum – Guitars (rhythm & lead)\n
  • Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer – Drums\n
  • HP Scanjet 3c – Bass Guitar\n
  • Hard Drive array – Act as a collection of bad speakers – Vocals & FX<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You’ll have to forgive the weak emptiness of this end of The Nation. I’ve either not had the time and not made the time needed to throw together words of woe, wisdom or otherwise. Short bursts is all I can mange these days. We will try for themes though. This week will be music. My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[131,161,195,214],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-pop-culture-schlock","tag-internet","tag-music-week","tag-radiohead","tag-song-a-rama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}