{"id":765,"date":"2011-07-10T21:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T10:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2011-07-10T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T10:35:30","slug":"secret-summer-mixter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"secret summer mixter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-770\" title=\"westbeach2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/westbeach2-300x128.png\" alt=\"westbeach2\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/westbeach2-300x128.png 300w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/westbeach2-1024x438.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/westbeach2.png 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"25\" data=\"http:\/\/bigcontact.com\/feed-player\/robwalkerpoet\/endless-summer\/r:1;t:100\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/bigcontact.com\/feed-player\/robwalkerpoet\/endless-summer\/r:1;t:100\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just had great fun with <a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/playlist\/browse\/10346\">ccMixter\u2019s Beach blanket secret mixter projec<\/a>t. Participants were invited to produce something with a summer theme in secret collaboration with another artist somewhere on the planet. I was fortuitously allocated <a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/people\/casimps1\/profile\">Clarence Simpson<\/a> (I think he\u2019s from Arkansas.) I chose his beautiful but simple guitar arpeggio C minor and wrote a memoir of my Australian summers of childhood at West Beach then blended them with coastal sound FX and a basic chorus. I was pretty pleased with the result \u2013 and judging by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/reviews\/robwalkerpoet\/32424\">feedback<\/a> a lot of other people appreciated it. I was concerned that a US audience might not \u201cget\u201d the Aussie idioms &amp; references but no one\u2019s complained. I guess it\u2019s like poetry \u2013 if you\u2019re honest and very specific it often touches a\u00a0universal\u00a0chord\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just had great fun with ccMixter\u2019s Beach blanket secret mixter project. Participants were invited to produce something with a summer theme in secret collaboration with another artist somewhere on the planet. I was fortuitously allocated Clarence Simpson (I think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=765\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}