{"id":29263,"date":"2013-11-17T19:47:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=29263"},"modified":"2013-11-17T19:47:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:47:41","slug":"sunday-surprise-10-bach-and-laibach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=29263","title":{"rendered":"Sunday surprise 10: Bach and Laibach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Slovenian electronic-industrial group Laibach tackles pone of Bach&#8217;s late, greatest works ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <strong>Glenn Gould<\/strong> playing Contrapunctus XIV from <strong>Johann Sebastian Bach<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Art of Fugue<\/em>, complete with the hum that seems to generate itself from his immersion in the music: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FzI5eSA-Eck?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FzI5eSA-Eck?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here by way of comparison and contrast, is the Laibach &#8212; &#8220;music wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art collective&#8221; &#8212; interpretation of that same piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n9m8CdmLzhE?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n9m8CdmLzhE?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For my money, Laibach does a far more interesting job of &#8220;electronicizing&#8221; Bach than <strong>Wendy Carlos<\/strong> ever did, all those many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>For my money too, there&#8217;s the complete Laibach <em>Art of Fugue<\/em> on CD on its way to me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kunst-Der-Fuge-Laibach\/dp\/B001C9TG4O\">courtesy of Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Slovenian electronic-industrial group Laibach tackles pone of Bach&#8217;s late, greatest works ] . Here&#8217;s Glenn Gould playing Contrapunctus XIV from Johann Sebastian Bach&#8216;s Art of Fugue, complete with the hum that seems to generate itself from his immersion in the music: And here by way of comparison and contrast, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,480,946,1,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-music","category-sunday-surprise","category-uncategorized","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29263"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29331,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29263\/revisions\/29331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}