{"id":9,"date":"2012-03-13T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lascaux21.com\/40\/?p=9"},"modified":"2012-03-13T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T23:35:07","slug":"pop-song-2071-c-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/40\/pop-song-2071-c-e\/","title":{"rendered":"1\/40 Pop Song 2071 C.E."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently released an album entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/maskedanddreaming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Masked and Dreaming<\/a>&#8220;. Below is a copy of a letter I sent to CBC in hopes of having the song played on the radio. For anyone interested in hearing the song, a short sample is available at the website above, or you can purchase it from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/maskedanddreaming\/purchase.php\" target=\"_blank\">variety of online retailers<\/a>. Even better: contact the CBC and ask them to play it!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Dear [ CBC ]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have attached a piece of music here entitled &#8220;Pop Song 2071 CE&#8221; which I thought you might enjoy. It is an imagining of what a pop song might sound like in an possible future, year 2071. I chose this date as its 100 years after the year of my birth.<\/p>\n<p>About the music:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I used Brian Eno&#8217;s concept of &#8220;games for musicians&#8221; in this. That is, each musician was given a cue card with a &#8220;role&#8221; to play, and none of the musicians are able to read another&#8217;s cue card. Each brings their instructions to the session and plays according to those instructions. An example of a role would be something like: &#8220;Your parents come from Ulan Batar in Mongolia and Sao Paulo, Brazil. They met in France during a period of great cultural foment. You are a synthesizer player steeped in the traditions of post atonal harmonic structures, and with a passion for ancient musical traditions. You are known for creating sonic landscapes which listeners have likened to fractal cloud structures hanging and constantly shifting in the air&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>I am referencing a kind of &#8220;Blade Runner&#8221; aesthetic a la Vangelis: a future that is smear of cultural traditions, technological references, and blurred distinctions between types of intelligence.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"pullquote\">the lyrics to the song are written in a kind of polyglot futuristic patois of Japanese, Chinese, French, Russian, Portuguese, Pan-African, and English. Phrases are perceived by the listener like brief moments of clear vision when traveling through a fog or scrolling through radio frequencies<\/span><\/li>\n<li>the &#8220;guitar solo&#8221; is generated using a sophisticated computer algorithm that allows a user to simply select from a series of parameters. The algorithm then creates the solo in realtime while &#8220;listening&#8221; to the supporting musicians, playing something slightly different each iteration.<\/li>\n<li>I am joined in this song by several musical friends:<br \/>\nYui Minghua Novgorov: voice<br \/>\nXiao Ge Wen: guzheng<br \/>\nLevon Pogossian: bass<br \/>\nAGNIS: &#8220;guitar&#8221; (Algorithmic Guitar Noospheric Interactive System)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you enjoy what you hear.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Tim Gerwing<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pop-song-2071CE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42\" title=\"Pop Song 2071 CE\" src=\"http:\/\/lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pop-song-2071CE-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Pop Song 2071 CE\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pop Song 2071 CE (Masked and Dreaming)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently released an album entitled &#8220;Masked and Dreaming&#8220;. Below is a copy of a letter I sent to CBC in hopes of having the song played on the radio. For anyone interested in hearing the song, a short sample is available at the website above, or you can purchase it from a variety of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lascaux21.com\/40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}