{"id":239,"date":"2005-11-29T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=239"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:02:10","slug":"filler-by-proxy-xxvi-terry-riley-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/11\/filler-by-proxy-xxvi-terry-riley-variations.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler by Proxy XXVI: Terry Riley Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomphillips.co.uk\/painting\/music\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"a blind andalusian peasant haltingly remembers a visit by Terry Riley\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/terryriley01.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Opus 8 No.2 by Tom Phillips, 1968. First performed by Phillips and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matchlessrecordings.com\/sleeve_notes\/mrcd29.html\">John Tilbury<\/a> as music to accompany a student film, Wolverhampton 1969. Try performing it for yourself on your next bus journey.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">I have been listening to a couple of Riley&#8217;s film soundtracks downloaded from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/\">UbuWeb,<\/a> but they don&#8217;t seem to be available anymore. Pity: I&#8217;m getting to quite enjoy them now, having got past the hippie encrustations of titles like &#8220;Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector&#8221;. There&#8217;s an insistent drive and clarity of purpose throughout his music, when everything about his manner of presentation leads you to expect New Age gruel or Dead-like indulgent noodling.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Then I looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terryriley.com\/enter.htm\">his website<\/a>. Jesus, what a hippie! My keyboard still stinks of patchouli, even after flushing the browser cache. Honestly, it sounds better than it looks.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opus 8 No.2 by Tom Phillips, 1968. First performed by Phillips and John Tilbury as music to accompany a student film, Wolverhampton 1969. Try performing it for yourself on your next bus journey. I have been listening to a couple of Riley&#8217;s film soundtracks downloaded from UbuWeb, but they don&#8217;t seem to be available anymore. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}