{"id":715,"date":"2008-07-10T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=715"},"modified":"2010-01-02T02:37:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T02:37:35","slug":"string-quartet-no-2-the-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/07\/string-quartet-no-2-the-performance.html","title":{"rendered":"String Quartet No.2: The Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to presenting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/music\/sq2_canon_in_beta.shtml\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">String Quartet No.2 (Canon in Beta)<\/span><\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/06\/string-quartet-no2-installing.html\">an installation<\/a> in Melbourne last month, I gave another live performance of the &#8220;concert version&#8221; of the piece.  Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/08\/placard-condensed.html\">the Paris performance<\/a> last year, I remembered to make a recording this time.  (In any case, the Paris gig suffered from some electrical interference towards the end.)<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bodgieman.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/ben-harper-school-of-dancing.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/bodgiespace.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don&#8217;t get too excited.  I was going to upload this recording, but having listened back to it I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s not quite good enough, at least as an audio-only experience. Sorry to get all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewire.co.uk\/articles\/192\/\">La Monte Young<\/a> on you, but my timing was a little off when playing the piece, and so I want to prepare a more flattering &#8220;studio&#8221; version in the next few days.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s supposed to be a video of me somewhere trying to look musical  while performing in the gallery.  In the meantime, you can enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/bodgieman.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/ben-harper-school-of-dancing.html\">this photo essay<\/a> by an audience member, of me struggling with a faulty speaker cable immediately before the performance.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to presenting String Quartet No.2 (Canon in Beta) as an installation in Melbourne last month, I gave another live performance of the &#8220;concert version&#8221; of the piece. Unlike the Paris performance last year, I remembered to make a recording this time. (In any case, the Paris gig suffered from some electrical interference towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}