{"id":839,"date":"2006-01-26T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/01\/curating_your_own_life_soundtr\/"},"modified":"2006-01-26T09:12:10","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T17:12:10","slug":"curating_your_own_life_soundtr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/curating_your_own_life_soundtr.php","title":{"rendered":"Curating your own life soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Zaslow has a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB113717448190446157-dkG_RpNNVi3bgICNAo8jRlLyQR4_20060128.html?mod=blogs\">cute piece in the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i><\/a> about creating a more intentional soundtrack to his daily activities through his iPod. Like a good journalist, he asks some experts on the subject of soundtracks for advice and insight &#8212; a film director, a television series creator, a major studio executive.<\/p>\n<p>The process struck me as a fascinating public conversation for <i>any<\/i> local music-based organization &#8212; symphony, presenter, radio station, whatever &#8212; with their communities. How would your artistic director curate the music of his\/her life &#8212; getting the kids on the school bus, driving to work, sitting in a meeting, eating a sandwich, etc? And how would members of your audience score the same activities?<\/p>\n<p>At the core of the question is how people weave music into their daily lives, or how they might if they added some intention to the process. Along  the way, you&#8217;d be exploring music as identity, music as emotional support, music as escape, music as connected to the world, and the creative challenge of curating expressive works.<\/p>\n<p>Not a bad conversation to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Zaslow has a cute piece in the Wall Street Journal about creating a more intentional soundtrack to his daily activities through his iPod. Like a good journalist, he asks some experts on the subject of soundtracks for advice and insight &#8212; a film director, a television series creator, a major studio executive. The process [&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-839","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\/839","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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}