{"id":2265,"date":"2017-07-27T09:04:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2017-12-22T13:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:49:49","slug":"an-old-friend-calls-and-tells-us-where-to-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"an old friend calls and tells us where to meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I discovered another one. Another perfect synthesis of image and music, that is.<\/p>\n

The first was detailed in this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mono, \u201cLife In Mono\u201d \u2014 To date the strongest synthesis I\u2019ve found between a song and a visual image. It was between this song and the first teaser trailer to the 1997 movie Great Expectations. You won\u2019t find the teaser any more anywhere\u2013I\u2019ve looked\u2013only the full-length, inferior trailer remains with a different accompaniment. But if you hear this song and think of muted red and green, symmetrical, baroque icons and elaborate shapes rotating deliberately on a black background intercut with the more passionate moments from the film, you\u2019ll be on the right track. Beautiful, delicate, enchanting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So yesterday evening on the way to the gym, I plumbed Primitive Radio Gods’ “Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand”<\/a> through the iPod onto the stereo, and whilst listening, the image of Vel\u00e1zquez’s painting Las Meninas came into my head:<\/p>\n

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I wish I could describe how the song and the painting fit together, but at this point it’s a gut-level thing. It’s powerful, but the reasons aren’t fully-formed yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I discovered another one. Another perfect synthesis of image and music, that is. The first was detailed in this post: Mono, \u201cLife In Mono\u201d \u2014 To date the strongest synthesis I\u2019ve found between a song and a visual image. It was between this song and the first teaser trailer to the 1997 movie Great Expectations. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}