{"id":1336,"date":"2009-08-19T08:44:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/08\/the_father_of_invention\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:44:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:44:35","slug":"the_father_of_invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_father_of_invention.php","title":{"rendered":"The father of invention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air with Terry Gross offers a fabulous rebroadcast of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=111888401\">a 1992 interview with guitarist\/inventor Les Paul<\/a>, following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/08\/13\/arts\/AP-US-Obit-Les-Paul.html\">his death last week<\/a>. Paul was a prolific jazz guitarist, and quietly invented or innovated many of the techniques and devices that define contemporary music (the hardbody guitar, multitrack recording, a full range of audio modification techniques). <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s extraordinary about the interview &#8212; beyond the obvious energy, passion, and persistence in the face of so many physical challenges &#8212; is his motivation for his inventions. He created all of these extraordinary tools and techniques not to serve a market, make a fortune, or even change the face of music. Rather, he was <i>compelled<\/i> to invent solutions to get the sound he wanted in the way he wanted it. <\/p>\n<p>A great example of a visionary artist without a particular public agenda, who happens to change the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air with Terry Gross offers a fabulous rebroadcast of a 1992 interview with guitarist\/inventor Les Paul, following his death last week. Paul was a prolific jazz guitarist, and quietly invented or innovated many of the techniques and devices that define contemporary music (the hardbody guitar, multitrack recording, a full range of audio modification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}