{"id":4600,"date":"2016-01-05T18:34:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2016-01-11T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T20:22:20","slug":"12-days-of-crimbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/12-days-of-crimbo\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Days of Crimbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a plan in the fortnight before Christmas to write 12 songs in 12 days. I nearly made it in time!<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3473858659\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/charleshutchins.bandcamp.com\/album\/12-days-of-crimbo\">12 Days of Crimbo by Charles Celeste Hutchins<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted all of the pieces as a <a href=\"https:\/\/charleshutchins.bandcamp.com\/album\/12-days-of-crimbo2\">free album on Bandcamp.<\/a> My only request is that if you download it and can afford to, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crisis.org.uk\/pages\/donate.html\">donate to one of the listed charities, such as Crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I didn&#8217;t get twelve pieces in 12 days, each piece only got a few hours of attention. Because Christmas music tends to be tonal, I looked into more instrumental synthdefs and because of the constraints on time, I tended to borrow and adapt instead of inventing totally new sounds. I&#8217;ve not got a pretty good additive bell, based on Risset, a good karplus strong plucked sound and decent jingle bells. These shall go up shortly on the sccode site.<\/p>\n<p>I used glitched jpegs as still images for each track on Bandcamp, so when I decided to also upload the tracks to youtube, I created a glitch movie maker script.  It&#8217;s based on a workshop I saw Antonio Roberts do at Tate Britain. He opened up a jpeg file, typed some junk into it and then it glitched. I wrote a script to insert junk into jpegs. It first looks at the aiff, to decide how many jpegs will be needed, makes all of them, then turns them into a music video. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/celesteh\/glitchVid\">I&#8217;ve posted it to github.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WfnODnalw4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3WfnODnalw4\">an example of the script&#8217;s output<\/a>. All <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLhZuXyddJ9-fCu0eE6l0CIOfnUfkiKRUz\">12 pieces are up on YouTube<\/a> also, if you would like to have a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a plan in the fortnight before Christmas to write 12 songs in 12 days. I nearly made it in time! 12 Days of Crimbo by Charles Celeste Hutchins I&#8217;ve posted all of the pieces as a free album on Bandcamp. My only request is that if you download it and can afford to, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/12-days-of-crimbo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12 Days of Crimbo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[352,27,32,11],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-album","tag-christmas","tag-glitch","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}