{"id":37,"date":"2008-05-02T15:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-05-02T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T13:12:26","slug":"field-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Field Excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just recently I wanted to check whether the lord of the <a title=\"Samplers\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sampler_(musical_instrument)\">samplers<\/a> (<a title=\"Amon Tobin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amon_Tobin\">Amon Tobin<\/a>) will release any new music any time soon. But instead of advertising new releases Amon Tobin&#8217;s website took me on a <a title=\"Field Excursion\" href=\"http:\/\/amontobin.com\/field\/\">field recording excursion<\/a>. Resembling the approach he took with his excellent latest album, where he actually recorded the samples himself instead of recycling old material, a heavy <a title=\"Adobe Flash\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adobe_Flash\">Flash<\/a> application allows the visitor to control some kind of ship in order to search for specific life forms.<\/p>\n<p>Once such a life form has been found, the visitor can record a set of samples from that species. When all of the samples have been recorded, the specimen will perform what could be called a dance accompanied by an audio track composed of the previously recorded samples.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely not a big fan of neither Flash-supported nor solemnly Flash-based web sites, but this one is very well done and provides an original experience that is actually related to the art it is intended to present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just recently I wanted to check whether the lord of the samplers (Amon Tobin) will release any new music any time soon. But instead of advertising new releases Amon Tobin&#8217;s website took me on a field recording excursion. Resembling the approach he took with his excellent latest album, where he actually recorded the samples himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}