{"id":4903,"date":"2014-09-12T06:25:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T10:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2014-09-12T06:25:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T10:25:31","slug":"weekend-picks-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=4903","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of projects keeping me busy lately. Until I can get some more original content posted, here are my weekend picks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How many times does the chorus repeat in your favorite song? How many times have you listened to that chorus? Repetition in music isn\u2019t just a feature of Western pop songs, either; it\u2019s a global phenomenon. Why? Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis walks us through the basic principles of the \u2018exposure effect,\u2019 detailing how repetition invites us into music as active participants, rather than passive listeners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1lo8EomDrwA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not your cup of tea? How about looking through a <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginaryinstruments.org\">Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do you have aspirations to freelance as a musician? Danny Barnes has some great advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/dannybarnes.com\/blog\/how-play-someone-elses-band\">How To Play In Someone Else&#8217;s Band<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lastly, web comic The Oatmeal describes in a both amusing and enlightening way <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/music_industry\">The State of the Music Industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of projects keeping me busy lately. Until I can get some more original content posted, here are my weekend picks. How many times does the chorus repeat in your favorite song? How many times have you listened to that chorus? Repetition in music isn\u2019t just a feature of Western pop songs, either; it\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=4903\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Picks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1364,1366,1376,1381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition","category-creativity","category-humor","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-1h5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}