{"id":11532,"date":"2020-01-26T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T19:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=11532"},"modified":"2020-01-26T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T19:39:05","slug":"ghost-box-an-audio-sculptural-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/26\/ghost-box-an-audio-sculptural-mashup\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ghost Box&#8221;: An audio\/sculptural mashup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2020\/01\/steve-parker-brass-audio-sculpture\/\">Steve Parker\u2019s brass audio sculptures<\/a> are a delightfully weird melange:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Activated by touch, \u201cGhost Box\u201d plays randomized audio segments on a loop, including the ticks of Morse Code, the chorus of spirituals, and the blows of the shofar and Iron Age Celtic carnyx. Each time someone makes contact with a part of the wall sculpture, a new noise emits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/320391512\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The artists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-parker.net\/ghost-scores\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Ghost Army was an Allied Army tactical deception unit during World War II.  Their mission was to impersonate other Allied Army units to deceive the enemy. From a few weeks before D-Day, when they landed in France, until the end of the war, they put on a &#8220;traveling road show&#8221; utilizing inflatable tanks, sound trucks, fake radio transmissions, scripts, and sound projections. The unit was an incubator for many young artists who went on to have a major impact on the post-war US, including Ellsworth Kelly, Bill Blass, and Arthur Singer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UntitledImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/UntitledImage-4.png\" alt=\"UntitledImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Parker\u2019s brass audio sculptures are a delightfully weird melange: Activated by touch, \u201cGhost Box\u201d plays randomized audio segments on a loop, including the ticks of Morse Code, the chorus of spirituals, and the blows of the shofar and Iron Age Celtic carnyx. Each time someone makes contact with a part of the wall sculpture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11533,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions\/11533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}