{"id":3349,"date":"2009-03-13T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2009-02-26T22:24:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T03:24:42","slug":"friday-night-video-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Melodies derived from stock charts:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2-BZfFakpzc&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2-BZfFakpzc&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\">Gerry Canavan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m immediately reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ypycpKQxXR0\">these videos of classic hits<\/a> as interpreted by <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/projects\/songsmith\/\">Microsoft Songsmith<\/a> &#8212; seriously, some of those are wonderfully awful &#8212; as well as by people who&#8217;ve taken Ze Frank&#8217;s already weird <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zefrank.com\/zesblog\/archives\/2009\/01\/want_to_try_som.html\">voice-based drawing toy<\/a> and adapted it to <a href=\"http:\/\/strangenative.com\/?p=365\">interpret popular music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In general, I&#8217;m interested in people who take tools and turn them towards completely unexpected purposes.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melodies derived from stock charts: Via Gerry Canavan. I&#8217;m immediately reminded of these videos of classic hits as interpreted by Microsoft Songsmith &#8212; seriously, some of those are wonderfully awful &#8212; as well as by people who&#8217;ve taken Ze Frank&#8217;s already weird voice-based drawing toy and adapted it to interpret popular music. In general, I&#8217;m &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3349\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25,15,9,7],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-memes","tag-music","tag-pop-culture","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}