{"id":4206,"date":"2010-04-20T23:33:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2011-05-03T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:39:29","slug":"varese-360%c2%b0-but-first-a-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2010\/04\/varese-360%c2%b0-but-first-a-rant.html","title":{"rendered":"Var\u00e8se 360\u00b0: but first, a rant."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/seethis.jpg\" title=\"One day I'm gonna catch me a VJ...\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4121\" style=\"float:right; margin: 4px 0 4px 8px;\" \/>On the weekend I was blown away by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk\/project\/var%C3%A8se-360%C2%B0\">Edgard Var\u00e8se 360\u00b0<\/a> gigs &#8211; yep, three tight little concerts of the complete works of Var\u00e8se. Awesome. <\/p>\n<p>I want to write some nice things about it, so I&#8217;ll get this out of the way first.  <strong><em>Enough with the crappy video projections, already.<\/em><\/strong>  Nobody likes them.  Critics don&#8217;t like them, the punters don&#8217;t like them, nobody&#8217;s bought a ticket to your gig to look at insipid video art, they&#8217;re there for the music and your ill-conceived attempts at visual decoration are a distraction at best, an embarrassment at worst. You&#8217;ve been trying this crap on for years and it hasn&#8217;t gotten any better.  Give up.  The people coming to your gigs are savvy enough about culture to know that your visuals just don&#8217;t cut it for a professional outfit.  You may think you&#8217;re getting down with Yoof but if The Kids are lured to one of your concerts they&#8217;re already switched on to video and recognise crap when they see it.  Stop it &#8211; you&#8217;re only hurting yourselves.  It undermines the concert experience for the regulars and it convinces the newcomers that it&#8217;s as lame as they feared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the weekend I was blown away by the Edgard Var\u00e8se 360\u00b0 gigs &#8211; yep, three tight little concerts of the complete works of Var\u00e8se. Awesome. I want to write some nice things about it, so I&#8217;ll get this out of the way first. Enough with the crappy video projections, already. Nobody likes them. Critics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206"}],"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=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4912,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}