{"id":163,"date":"2009-03-05T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T02:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-03-05T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T02:00:39","slug":"fermata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"fermata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a lot of things have conspired to get in the way of me posting new music tonight.  the acquisition of logic studio led to a ton of screwing around with various loops and cool plug-ins.  i even did some time with the cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Apple-Pro-Training-Beyond-Basics\/dp\/0321502884\/\">apple training book<\/a> for logic.  so there was a lot of looping and messing with my keyboard but not a lot of productivity.  sometimes, that&#8217;s how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>i have, however, made serious inroads on the guitar.  the top and back are now completely braced and i should be able to attach them to the sides this weekend.  there is so much to be learned from building this kit.  when i start my first &#8220;from scratch&#8221; guitar i will have a much better idea of what i&#8217;m doing and will be able to avoid a ton of mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>on another note, i was struck by something a friend said the other day about it being impossible to be robinson crusoe any more.  with the pile of &#8220;social networking&#8221; sites and the internet being what it is, simply disappearing isn&#8217;t much of an option any more.  i contrast that with friends i know who are, like me, semi-islands.  we huddle off by ourselves in spare bedrooms, learning to play other instruments because we don&#8217;t live lives that allow for collaboration on our terms.  there is some brilliant work being done out there on those islands and cast onto the waves like a message in a bottle.  romantic, huh?   i kinda like it.<\/p>\n<p>i know from google analytics that people are looking at what i do.  i get feed back.  i try to give as much as i can when i find others in similar situations.  i use the facebooks and myspaces of the web to broadcast to as wide an audience as i can find.  in a sense, for artists living today these are the most connected and isolated of times.  especially for those of us with day jobs.<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s been rattling around in my head for some time and i don&#8217;t know that it makes any more sense now that it&#8217;s on the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a lot of things have conspired to get in the way of me posting new music tonight. the acquisition of logic studio led to a ton of screwing around with various loops and cool plug-ins. i even did some time &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=163\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}