{"id":229,"date":"2013-07-18T17:18:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T17:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/07\/18\/being-art-isnt-a-property-of-a-thing-but-a-property-of-how-we-perceive-that-thing-vi-hart\/"},"modified":"2013-07-18T17:18:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T17:18:44","slug":"being-art-isnt-a-property-of-a-thing-but-a-property-of-how-we-perceive-that-thing-vi-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/07\/being-art-isnt-a-property-of-a-thing-but-a-property-of-how-we-perceive-that-thing-vi-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Being Art Isn&#8217;t a Property of a Thing, but a Property of How We Perceive that Thing&#8221; \u2014 Vi Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Twelve Tones - YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4niz8TfY794&#038;feature=youtu.be\">Twelve Tones &#8211; YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4niz8TfY794\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis video is ostensibly about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twelve-tone_technique\">twelve-tone composition techniques<\/a>&#8211;but do not let a disinterest in &#8220;experimental&#8221; music cause you to miss out.<br \/>\nFirst off, the music Vi tosses off to illustrate her points is so hauntingly beautiful it&#8217;s just about crippling.  This arrangement of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/4niz8TfY794?t=5m55s\">Mary Had a Little Lamb<\/a>&#8221; (explored at length around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4niz8TfY794&#038;feature=youtu.be&#038;t=21m22s\">21min mark<\/a>) is so beautiful it makes me ache.  I love it, without irony or snark.  I just *love* it, love how the sound of the 12-tone recombination has guided the dark and tortuous new text.<br \/>\nBut, although that&#8217;s the focus of the video, this talk (recitation? recital? lecture? demo? &#8220;vlog&#8221;?) is really about creativity and the rudimentary mechanics of artistic craft (both for the nominal creator and nominal audience), as well as the concreteness of artistic &#8220;abstraction&#8221; and the fucktardity of current US copyright law[*].<br \/>\nThis video is incredible and wonderful; it&#8217;s worth your 30-minutes, especially if you aspire to *any* creative endeavor.<br \/>\n*thx for the tip <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/logista\">@logista<\/a>!*<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n[*] FYI, EU law is, in many respects, even stupider.  *Ugh.*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve Tones &#8211; YouTube This video is ostensibly about twelve-tone composition techniques&#8211;but do not let a disinterest in &#8220;experimental&#8221; music cause you to miss out. First off, the music Vi tosses off to illustrate her points is so hauntingly beautiful it&#8217;s just about crippling. This arrangement of &#8220;Mary Had a Little Lamb&#8221; (explored at length &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/07\/being-art-isnt-a-property-of-a-thing-but-a-property-of-how-we-perceive-that-thing-vi-hart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Being Art Isn&#8217;t a Property of a Thing, but a Property of How We Perceive that Thing&#8221; \u2014 Vi Hart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}