{"id":36595,"date":"2017-08-28T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T19:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=36595"},"modified":"2017-08-31T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:30:39","slug":"chromium-steel-wind-chimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/chromium-steel-wind-chimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chromium Steel Wind Chimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It occurred to me that the ideal instrument for playing “minimalist”<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> music like Terry Riley’s “In C<\/a>” would be wind chimes. I spent a few lunch hours recently compiling my own set of wind chime music. It uses five instances of the AAS Chromaphone<\/a>, covering five octaves. See what you make of it.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chromium-Steel-Wind-Chimes.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Update: Uploaded a slightly tweaked and, I hope, much better-sounding recording. What sounds good on headphones at the office sometimes sounds pretty awful on the speakers at home.<\/p>\n

Update II: Let’s drive this into the ground. Here’s a similar piece for heavily corroded wind chimes, featuring three instances of u-he’s ACE<\/a> and too much percussion. (You might want to turn the volume down.)<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Corroded-Wind-Chimes.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

I have a notion for one more exercise along these lines, and then it will be back to real music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It occurred to me that the ideal instrument for playing “minimalist” music like Terry Riley’s “In C” would be wind chimes. I spent a few lunch hours recently compiling my own set of wind chime music. It uses five instances of the AAS Chromaphone, covering five octaves. See what you make of it. Update: Uploaded … Continue reading “Chromium Steel Wind Chimes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-9wf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36595"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36709,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36595\/revisions\/36709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}