{"id":84,"date":"2010-07-30T13:13:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T12:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xinaesthetic.net\/?p=84"},"modified":"2011-02-07T01:05:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T01:05:53","slug":"alligator-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/2010\/07\/alligator-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinaesthetic.net\/aamain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/aliguitar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-89\" title=\"aliguitar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xinaesthetic.net\/aamain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/aliguitar-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/aliguitar-300x251.jpg 300w, http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/aliguitar-1024x857.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/aliguitar-740x620.jpg 740w, http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/aliguitar-370x310.jpg 370w, http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/aliguitar-848x710.jpg 848w, http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/aliguitar.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Nick Didkovsky&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YPIGkKxwgcQ\" target=\"_blank\">Density Trajectory Study II For solo guitar and computer<\/a>&#8221; I&#8217;ve recently been spurned into getting hold of a few alligator clips for the purposes of preparing guitar strings.  Placed on modal points of the strings, they exchange the simple harmonics of an unprepared string for beautiful and complex gamelan-like timbres.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a recording of some (sketchy) improvisation, playing a thus-prepared guitar laid on a desk with a pair of pencils.<\/p>\n<!-- degradable html5 audio and video plugin --><div class=\"audio_wrap html5audio\"><div style=\"display:none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinaesthetic.net\/aamain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/AlligatorImprov1.mp3\" title=\"Click to open\" id=\"f-html5audio-0\">Audio MP3<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"f-html5audio-0\", {soundFile: \"http:\/\/www.xinaesthetic.net\/aamain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/AlligatorImprov1.mp3\"});<\/script><\/div><audio controls autobuffer id=\"html5audio-0\" class=\"html5audio\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinaesthetic.net\/aamain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/AlligatorImprov1.mp3\" title=\"Click to open\" id=\"f-html5audio-0\">Audio MP3<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"f-html5audio-0\", {soundFile: \"http:\/\/www.xinaesthetic.net\/aamain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/AlligatorImprov1.mp3\"});<\/script><\/audio><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">if (jQuery.browser.mozilla) {tempaud=document.getElementsByTagName(\"audio\")[0]; jQuery(tempaud).remove(); jQuery(\"div.audio_wrap div\").show()} else jQuery(\"div.audio_wrap div *\").remove();<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Nick Didkovsky&#8217;s &#8220;Density Trajectory Study II For solo guitar and computer&#8221; I&#8217;ve recently been spurned into getting hold of a few alligator clips for the purposes of preparing guitar strings. Placed on modal points of the strings, they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/2010\/07\/alligator-guitar\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[14,19,15,39,32,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xinaesthwp.loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}