{"id":15006,"date":"2013-10-01T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T01:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/?p=15006"},"modified":"2013-10-01T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T02:09:14","slug":"failing-cd-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/failing-cd-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing CD Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new release out on the Ideal State Label&#8217;s No Number Series.  This series presents brief recordings of improv and composed music, all available as CC licensed, pay-what-you-want downloadable releases on BandCamp with extremely minimal cover art.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n<b>With this release I am exploring my idea of sound improvisation&#8230; exploring the boundary between documentation (a la field recording) and improv.  <\/b><br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vuzhmusic.com\/images\/failing.jpg\" width=\"360\"><br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n&#8220;failing CD player&#8221; is a hybrid improvisation \/ documentary recording of a malfunctioning CD player during the very final fourteen minutes of its malfunctioning. Once this recording was completed, it ceased operating on any level, whatsoever.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nThe recording features a four channel live-mix comprised of the 2 audio outs from the CD player, a contact mic taped just above where the CD spins on the player, and an induction coil held in my hand.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nDuring this recording, I discovered that there was some effect on the spasming of the CD player caused by the position of my hands near the machine; once I discovered this, my hand motions were more dynamic and eccentric, and the output seemed more &#8220;expressive&#8221;, or perhaps at least &#8220;interactive&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nListen and\/or download at this link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/idealstatenonumberseries.bandcamp.com\/album\/failing-cd-player\">http:\/\/idealstatenonumberseries.bandcamp.com\/album\/failing-cd-player<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nAlso check out the rest of the releases on this fine label.  I&#8217;ve chosen the No Number Series because I like the releases here, and I like the aesthetic and focus of the label.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/isr-no-number-series.tumblr.com\/releases\">http:\/\/isr-no-number-series.tumblr.com\/releases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new release out on the Ideal State Label&#8217;s No Number Series. This series presents brief recordings of improv and composed music, all available as CC licensed, pay-what-you-want downloadable releases on BandCamp with extremely minimal cover art. &#8211; With this release I am exploring my idea of sound improvisation&#8230; exploring the boundary between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vuzh-music-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eIxq-3U2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15010,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions\/15010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}