{"id":992,"date":"2015-02-27T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T09:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2015-02-26T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T09:39:32","slug":"song-of-the-week-modernist-by-ryan-maguire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;moDernisT&#8221; by Ryan Maguire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;moDernisT&#8221; by Ryan Maguire:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0px none; width: 275px; height: 370px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2765011170\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpm7.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-ghost-in-the-mp3\">The Ghost in the MP3 by Ryan Maguire<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Neil Young in particular has been moaning (and, on the song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WmHljOmSw6I\" target=\"_blank\">Driftin&#8217; Back<\/a>&#8221; from <em>Psychedelic Pill, <\/em>singing) about the crappy sound quality of the mp3 format for years now. But while Ben Maguire might&#8217;ve heard Neil Young rockin&#8217; out his anger \/ rockin&#8217; out his thoughts about it, he decided that one man&#8217;s\/musical format&#8217;s loss is another man&#8217;s artistic opportunity.\u00a0 Thus we have &#8220;moDernisT&#8221;, a song comprised of all the sound information that gets lost when Susanne Vega&#8217;s song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-26hsZqwveA\" target=\"_blank\">Tom&#8217;s Diner<\/a>&#8221; gets compressed into an mp3.\u00a0 You can read a little more about the track, and the project of which it&#8217;s a part, by visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/theghostinthemp3.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost in the MP3 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22moDernisT%22%20by%20Ryan%20Maguire\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. This is &#8220;moDernisT&#8221; by Ryan Maguire: The Ghost in the MP3 by Ryan Maguire Neil Young in particular has been moaning (and, on the song &#8220;Driftin&#8217; Back&#8221; from Psychedelic Pill, singing) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22moDernisT%22%20by%20Ryan%20Maguire\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-week","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}