{"id":936,"date":"2009-08-29T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=936"},"modified":"2010-05-16T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T15:10:34","slug":"whats-on-top-of-the-pile-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/08\/whats-on-top-of-the-pile-11.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s On Top Of The Pile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Julius Eastman, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Stay On It<\/span><\/span> (Ne(x)tworks live in concert at The Stone)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having a little binge on minimalist music lately, and happened to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/NextworksAtTheStone2007Part2\">this 2007 performance<\/a> of an essential piece by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjleach.com\/eastman.htm\">Julius Eastman<\/a> &#8211; a tragic, quasi-mythical figure in the New York music scene.  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Stay On It<\/span> starts out in a jaunty, upbeat fashion typical of much repetitive music&#8230; but then it starts to fall apart.  And then something else happens.  And then another something else, and then&#8230; It&#8217;s a great piece of music, and a neat reminder that in 1973 some composers were already finding minimalism old hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julius Eastman, Stay On It (Ne(x)tworks live in concert at The Stone) I&#8217;ve been having a little binge on minimalist music lately, and happened to find this 2007 performance of an essential piece by Julius Eastman &#8211; a tragic, quasi-mythical figure in the New York music scene. Stay On It starts out in a jaunty, [&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\/936"}],"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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}