{"id":279,"date":"2010-04-04T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-04-04T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T15:26:02","slug":"what_a_difference_a_soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/04\/what_a_difference_a_soundtrack\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Difference a Soundtrack Makes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Sometimes aural context is everything, or at least it&#8217;s a pretty good chunk.<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2T5_0AGdFic&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2T5_0AGdFic&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><\/object><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">[via <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/04\/04\/recut-youtube-movie-trailers\/\">Mashable<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the power of musical association: When the weather turns no-jacket warm again, I always fall into a bit of windows down\/car stereo music revery, in that &#8220;this has been the soundtrack of my life&#8221; kind of way. This past weekend has been a good climate for that. The music stores so much information in addition to what the composer\/artist was trying to get across. Visual images come back in a flood, feelings, experiences. Music as personal culture. And though often as vague and changeable as a memory, it also has a strong root buried the notes. I like this storage method. No hard drive crash or deleted account will disappear with these pieces of my life. I used to wonder if we could each create amazingly nuanced autobiographies using a series of YouTube music videos, and then I came to understand why this wouldn&#8217;t really work. There&#8217;s an incredible amount of information contained in music that only we hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes aural context is everything, or at least it&#8217;s a pretty good chunk. [via Mashable] Speaking of the power of musical association: When the weather turns no-jacket warm again, I always fall into a bit of windows down\/car stereo music revery, in that &#8220;this has been the soundtrack of my life&#8221; kind of way. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}