{"id":923,"date":"2009-08-02T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=923"},"modified":"2010-05-16T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T15:20:46","slug":"filler-by-proxy-lxxi-so-its-come-to-this-a-post-about-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/08\/filler-by-proxy-lxxi-so-its-come-to-this-a-post-about-cats.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler By Proxy LXXI: So It&#8217;s Come To This, A Post About Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These videos have been doing the rounds, but I feel obliged to link to them because of my obsession with reworking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/music\/redundens.shtml\">Schoenberg&#8217;s Opus 11<\/a>.  An exemplar of how the internet wastes your time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beigerecords.com\/cory\/\">Cory Arcangel<\/a> has produced a performance of Schoenberg&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Three Piano Pieces<\/span> on his website.  The angle? It&#8217;s made up entirely of snippets of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beigerecords.com\/cory\/Things_I_Made\/DreiKlavierstucke\">YouTube videos of cats on piano keyboards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not quite an infinite number of monkeys, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>first I downloaded every video of a cat playing piano I could find on Youtube. I ended up with about 170 videos. Then I extracted the audio from each, pasted these files end to end, and then pasted this huge file onto the end of an audio file of Glenn Gould playing op11. I loaded this file into <a class=\"urllink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comparisonics.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Comparisonics<\/a>. Comparisonics, a strange free program I found while surfing one night&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full details, and the videos, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beigerecords.com\/cory\/Things_I_Made\/DreiKlavierstucke\">on his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These videos have been doing the rounds, but I feel obliged to link to them because of my obsession with reworking Schoenberg&#8217;s Opus 11. An exemplar of how the internet wastes your time, Cory Arcangel has produced a performance of Schoenberg&#8217;s Three Piano Pieces on his website. The angle? It&#8217;s made up entirely of snippets [&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\/923"}],"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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4326,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/4326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}