{"id":417,"date":"2011-03-14T13:56:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/?p=417"},"modified":"2011-03-14T13:56:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T17:56:15","slug":"singing-with-your-mouth-full-of-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/03\/singing-with-your-mouth-full-of-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing With Your Mouth Full (Of Candy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-418\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"ken_z\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=5640\">an interview<\/a> with the composer Ken Ueno a few years ago, we got to chatting about his awesome work <em>Zansetsu<\/em>, which involves extended vocals, amplification, and Pop Rocks. I recall asking him what would happen to the work should the world&#8217;s supply of the essential candy run out, and if my memory has filed his answer away correctly, he suggested that he would supply a recipe and that the performer could make his own as part of the work&#8217;s performance practice.<\/p>\n<p>For those who would like to get a head start on this project, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/03\/14\/howto-make-pop-rocks.html\">this recipe <\/a>for the sugary treat today. I do not believe Ueno specifies a flavor, but I have to believe that a  touch of, say, wasabi might change the tenor of the resulting performance.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Ueno perform the piece (original flavor) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenueno.com\/f\/mp3\/Zansetsu.mp3\">here<\/a>. Pop Rocks become an audible player in the aural narrative about a third of the way into the piece and die a slow, crackly death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the composer Ken Ueno a few years ago, we got to chatting about his awesome work Zansetsu, which involves extended vocals, amplification, and Pop Rocks. I recall asking him what would happen to the work should the world&#8217;s supply of the essential candy run out, and if my memory has filed [&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":[24,23,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-ken-ueno","8":"tag-pop-rocks","9":"tag-zansetsu","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}