{"id":37767,"date":"2017-09-27T17:17:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T22:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=37767"},"modified":"2017-09-28T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:54:09","slug":"frank-and-miku-happy-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/frank-and-miku-happy-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank and Miku, happy together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Frank Zappa&#8217;s kids are thinking of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/news\/frank-zappa-resurrected-for-hologram-shows-and-musical\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">presenting holograms of him in concert<\/a>, just like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNrdGx69pCo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hatsune Miku<\/a>? Holograms of Miku are fine, since she&#8217;s computer-generated anyway, but re-animating Frank seems ghoulish to me. I doubt that he&#8217;ll ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0fnKqnqfuaI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dance<\/a> as well as Miku, either, no matter how skillfully his hologram is programmed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Miku: While it&#8217;s not difficult to make songs with Vocaloids on your computer, it&#8217;s not so easy to perform with Miku live, in real time. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/news\/yamaha-is-releasing-a-vocaloid-keytar-that-youll-probably-never-be-able-to-buy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yamaha is making it a little easier with a new &#8220;keytar.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9_9cmeLTV7Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There was also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/news\/guitars\/make-your-guitar-sing-with-korgs-miku-stomp-effect-606725\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miku guitar stompbox<\/a> released a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And now for something completely different: <i><b>The Lord of the Rings Silent Movie<\/b><\/i>. (Via the <a href=\"https:\/\/localmalcontent.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Malcontent<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/COA80JjHEu0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Frank Zappa&#8217;s kids are thinking of presenting holograms of him in concert, just like Hatsune Miku? Holograms of Miku are fine, since she&#8217;s computer-generated anyway, but re-animating Frank seems ghoulish to me. I doubt that he&#8217;ll ever dance as well as Miku, either, no matter how skillfully his hologram is programmed. Speaking of Miku: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/frank-and-miku-happy-together\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frank and Miku, happy together&#8221;<\/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":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-9P9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37767","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=37767"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37823,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37767\/revisions\/37823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}