{"id":274,"date":"2016-01-14T12:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:46","slug":"lang-scraping-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/lang-scraping-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Lang &#8211; Scraping Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>David Lang<\/p>\n<p>Scraping Song<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScraping Song\u201d was written for my friend Steven Schick. In some way it is meant to be a lyrical companion to my piece \u201cThe Anvil Chorus,\u201d which I also wrote for Steve, and it comes directly out of two musical memories I have of him.<\/p>\n<p>The first memory is from right after we met, in graduate school in 1978, when I watched Steve audition many different guiros for a performance of Stockhausen\u2019s \u201cZyklus.\u201d Steve treated each guiro as if it were a violin, drawing from each an expressive range I never realized a percussion instrument could have.<\/p>\n<p>The second memory is more recent, from Bang on a Can\u2019s arrangement of Brian Eno\u2019s \u201cMusic for Airports.\u201d In the recording session I asked him to scrape a brake drum slowly around its rim. The resulting sound was so rich that I knew I would write a solo work about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 David Lang<\/p>\n<p>Duration 9&#8242;<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by Mike Daley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lang Scraping Song \u201cScraping Song\u201d was written for my friend Steven Schick. In some way it is meant to be a lyrical companion to my piece \u201cThe Anvil Chorus,\u201d which I also wrote for Steve, and it comes directly out of two musical memories I have of him. The first memory is from right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}