{"id":1214,"date":"2015-05-29T23:56:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T06:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/chadleaffieldstudy\/?p=132"},"modified":"2015-05-29T23:56:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T06:56:14","slug":"compositions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/compositions\/","title":{"rendered":"Compositions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;KONKREIT MUSICK&#8221; is sound collage piece composed entirely from different field recordings I took while in New Orleans. Sounds include: church bells, a brass band, an out-of-tune steamboat organ, sound effects from an action figure, a streetcar, and birds. I deconstructed the content from these recordings to form new melodies and used digital effects such as echo to create repeating rhythmic patterns and reverb to create a sense of space.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F207933356&#038;%23038;show_artwork=true&#038;%23038;maxwidth=500&#038;%23038;maxheight=750\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dream Melody&#8221; was something I came up with while playing around with a sanza, an African instrument also known as a &#8220;thumb piano&#8221;. I then took the melody and transposed it onto guitar and later added a chord progression to support it. In this recording you will hear the lead guitar and sanza playing in unison accompanied by guitar chords underneath. It then segues into a piece I call &#8220;Sombre Ecstasy&#8221;. This composition is one that I had been developing throughout my time in New Orleans. It based around acoustic guitar with some added ambience also created with guitar and an electronic device called an Ebow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F207933663&#038;%23038;show_artwork=true&#038;%23038;maxwidth=500&#038;%23038;maxheight=750\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>*recordings recommended for headphone listening* Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;KONKREIT MUSICK&rdquo; is sound collage piece composed entirely from different field recordings I took while in New Orleans. Sounds include: church bells, a brass band, an out-of-tune steamboat organ, sound effects from an action figure, a streetcar, and birds. I deconstructed the content from these recordings to form new melodies and used digital effects such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[],"tags":[99],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}