{"id":2397,"date":"2008-04-10T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T20:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2008-04-10T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T20:32:06","slug":"measure-for-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2397","title":{"rendered":"Measure for Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/08\/natural-history\/\">New York Times Blog<\/a>, Andrew Bird describes songwriting, recording, etc.. Very interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The record I want to make here and now \u2014 the one I wish I could find in my local record store \u2014 is a gentle, lulling, polyrhythmic, minimalist yet warm tapestry of acoustic instruments. No solos, just interlocking parts. A little Steve Reich, but groovier. A little Ghanaian street music, but more arranged. Thick and creamy vocals like the Zombies\u2019s Colin Blunstone. The bass warm and tubby like Studio One dub.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only thing that separates a mess of seemingly disparate observations and a song is a moment of excessive confidence. As time goes on words and ideas begin to catch and gather around the original suspiciously arbitrary seeds of inspiration. There are times when I must admit that all the verse has in common with the chorus is that they both came out of my imagination, but isn\u2019t that enough?<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>Lyrically, I decided to go with \u201ccalcified arhythmatist\u201d rather than \u201cunemployed ex-physicist.\u201d It also sounds like arithmatist, as in one who does arithmetic, which makes just as much sense. I\u2019m not sure if this is correct but don\u2019t really care. I enjoy misunderstanding other people\u2019s lyrics and take pleasure in others misunderstanding mine. I\u2019m not suggesting that meaning is unimportant, but words like these on the fringe of meaning can spark the imagination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, better than just that one article, it's actually from the NYT musicians blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Measure For Measure<\/a>, where Bird, Roseanne Cash, Darrell Brown and Suzanne Vega blog about music. Excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on the New York Times Blog, Andrew Bird describes songwriting, recording, etc.. Very interesting. The record I want to make here and now \u2014 the one I wish I could find in my local record store \u2014 is a gentle, lulling, polyrhythmic, minimalist yet warm tapestry of acoustic instruments. No solos, just interlocking parts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}