{"id":43,"date":"2011-07-02T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/2011\/07\/02\/versions-of-pipe-dreams\/"},"modified":"2016-01-22T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:02:27","slug":"versions-of-pipe-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/versions-of-pipe-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Versions of Pipe Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was searching for an album name for a collection of computer-generated tunes by the Spindrift Virtual Ensemble. They have the feel of fantasy landscapes to me, so I settled on the name Pipe Dreams. Then I thought I&#8217;d search to see what else has used that name. Every evocative word has already been used, many times over, right?<\/p>\n<p>What I discovered: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/QStm3ZyzgY0\">Animusic&#8217;s Pipe Dream<\/a>, an awesome computer-game-like video in 3D of balls spouting up to strike various musical surfaces, making happy, laugh-out-loud music. [update: in 2015, the video is gone]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was searching for an album name for a collection of computer-generated tunes by the Spindrift Virtual Ensemble. They have the feel of fantasy landscapes to me, so I settled on the name Pipe Dreams. Then I thought I&#8217;d search to see what else has used that name. Every evocative word has already been used, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[80,81,82,83,84,85],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composing","tag-animation","tag-animusic","tag-computer-generated-music","tag-pipe-dreams","tag-video","tag-virtual-instruments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}