{"id":24061,"date":"2021-12-17T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/?p=24061"},"modified":"2022-04-19T22:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T02:00:56","slug":"severed-sky-music-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/2021\/12\/severed-sky-music-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Severed Sky Music Box"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s something magical about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/music-box\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"329\">music boxes<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have one from when I was child that plays swan lake, and another from my wife&#8217;s childhood that plays happy birthday. I love the way they slow down and eventually stop. They evoke peaceful memories of that time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I never thought someday, it would be possible to have my own music on one. I created one for a piece I wrote called <em>Tayoki<\/em> when I finished Tamaishi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, I hope to complete a music box with the main theme from <em>Where All the Little Things Live, <\/em>&#8220;Severed Sky&#8221;. I&#8217;ve started an arrangement of the tune that I&#8217;m really happy with. It lasts about 32 seconds and and has interesting voices  harmonies, and loops seamlessly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Music Box Preview.mov\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/658216261?h=cab64bce8f&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1088\" height=\"612\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I plan on putting this either in an enclosure by <a href=\"https:\/\/windyweatherbindery.com\">Windy Weather Bindery,<\/a> or maybe a wooden one by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/barnettcustomwoodworks\/\">Barnett Custom Woodworks<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure if I would like this to be stand alone, or with a book&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;at the moment I think it would be better with a copy of the book, but I think the idea of having it be its own thing with a stop mechanism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll be updating this post as things progress. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something magical about music boxes\u2026 I have one from when I was child that plays swan lake, and another from my wife&#8217;s childhood that plays happy birthday. I love the way they slow down and eventually stop. They evoke peaceful memories of that time. I never thought someday, it would be possible to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/2021\/12\/severed-sky-music-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Severed Sky Music Box<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-18-at-7.04.00-PM.png?fit=800%2C696&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUyBu-6g5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}