{"id":1003,"date":"2012-10-08T21:05:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T21:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2012-10-08T21:05:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T21:05:39","slug":"electric-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Electric Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 12-14 October 2012, the <a href=\"\/\/www.kontraste.at\/\u201c\">Kontraste Festival<\/a> \u2013 curated by <a href=\"\/\/www.sonicacts.com\u201d\">Sonic Acts<\/a> \u2013 reverberates across Krems, a pretty town on the Danube famous for its art galleries, <a href=\"\/\/www.jancisrobinson.com\/articles\/20070301_3.html\u201d\">staggeringly good white wine<\/a>, and one of the world\u2019s best preserved panopticon prisons. On Saturday I\u2019ll be discussing how, adapted as we are to a rich visual world, we will have to learn to tolerate the limited colour palette and visual monotony of the rest of the universe. This is one of the more left-field contributions; for the most part the weekend is filled with a wild assortment of scientifically literate sound artists Playing with Our Brains. This sort of thing: <\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zYuahvxS2KM&amp;w=640&amp;h=480]<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a film programme, like this:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HnzvjaXbLIc&amp;w=640&amp;h=480]<\/p>\n<p>with a touch of this:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nrvbHEov3L8&amp;w=853&amp;h=480]<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t make it up the Danube, <a href=\"\/\/www.sonicacts.com\/portal\/shop\u201d\">there\u2019s always the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 12-14 October 2012, the Kontraste Festival \u2013 curated by Sonic Acts \u2013 reverberates across Krems, a pretty town on the Danube famous for its art galleries, staggeringly good white wine, and one of the world\u2019s best preserved panopticon prisons. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1003\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,115],"tags":[8,179,180,209,268,269],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-115","tag-art","tag-festival","tag-film","tag-krems","tag-sonic-acts","tag-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}