{"id":692,"date":"2015-02-09T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=692"},"modified":"2015-02-09T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T13:05:07","slug":"the-latest-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2015\/02\/the-latest-track.html","title":{"rendered":"The latest track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Guerreri, whose writings on music I always enjoy and look forward to, heads his latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/articles\/digital-to-analog-poems-and-histories\/\"><strong>NewMusicBox column<\/strong><\/a> with a quote from 1842:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Richard Monckton] Milnes brought [Thomas] Carlyle to the railway, and showed him the departing train. Carlyle looked at it and then said, \u201cThese are our poems, Milnes.\u201d Milnes ought to have answered, \u201cAye, and our histories, Carlyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Ralph Waldo Emerson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectidius.com\/Volume_6_1842-1844.pdf\">Journals<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and I have to wonder \u2013 is this quote as useful as it is provocative? When I think of the 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century compositions I love and admire most, the words \u201csteam engine\u201d rarely come to mind. And yet I know the influence is there, both in its sonic manifestations and in the shifting ways in which artists perceived their terrain.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I have a hard time attaching a qualitative assessment to how directly compositions address the latest technologies. It seems like something art would invariably do \u2013 incorporate current technology \u2013 but the degree to which it foregrounds that use doesn\u2019t really tell us much, beyond the obvious: this technology exists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Guerreri, whose writings on music I always enjoy and look forward to, heads his latest NewMusicBox column with a quote from 1842: [Richard Monckton] Milnes brought [Thomas] Carlyle to the railway, and showed him the departing train. Carlyle looked at it and then said, \u201cThese are our poems, Milnes.\u201d Milnes ought to have answered, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}