{"id":24,"date":"2016-11-20T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/?p=24"},"modified":"2019-01-20T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:36:16","slug":"mechanical-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/mechanical-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I find machines making music where the machine is at least mostly pre-programmed facinating. For example; the below video shows a member of the band Wintergatan using his machine to play a song called &#8220;Marble Machine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"910\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IvUU8joBb1Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now while the music itself isnt that moving or inspirational, just watching the machine as it funnels marbles around captures my attention. Now with the above machine there is still a good amount of performance, especially during the breakdown (with its specifically named lever!), but even with this I would argue that the fact that it is a machine playing the music is what makes it interesting and artistic. However this affect seems to be primarily visual, as I doubt the same music played through an MP3 file would give the listener any reason to invest financialy or emotionally. But play the same music through a physical machine, something analogue, suddenly it becomes far more alluring. While I don&#8217;t think the average consumer would want to stump up for a replica of the marble amchine, watching it being played (operated?) would be enough. While I wonder if this has more to do with it being a different way to do music, anything out of the ordinary usually grabs people even if only briefly, I still find myself coming back to these videos to appreciate the fantastic machines making the sounds. The machines don&#8217;t even have to be real; Animusic seem to have a knack for creating music, and then inventing comuter gerneated machines to virtually &#8216;play&#8217; them for the audience, and I find it has a similar affect.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"910\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/toXNVbvFXyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curious.fish\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}