{"id":22124,"date":"2014-11-17T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22124"},"modified":"2014-11-17T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:47:57","slug":"audience-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/audience-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Audience Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a friend gave me a copy of <em>Of the Blue Colour of the Sky<\/em>, from <strong>Ok-Go<\/strong>, a band I was planning to not like very much. I knew they had catchy videos and all that. So maybe it was that this music made a good accompaniment to prepping a Sunday night lasagna, but I ended up enjoying the album more than I expected. There&#8217;s a distinct Spoon\/Flaming Lips\/Air vibe, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=ok+go+white&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\">best non-Prince Prince song<\/a> I&#8217;ve heard in a while.<\/p>\n<p>So I got to looking at some of the videos that go with the songs on the album, and found this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yx_C94YSPUM\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Say what you will about the band and their music, I think this is a pretty cool way to engage the audience and perform a studio track. Granted, the audience is sitting down, but they seem to be interested in the process of &#8220;creating&#8221; some music. They aren&#8217;t wielding guitars or maracas or jumping up on stage to jam, but they are also not taking stupid selfies or videoing the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Is this where music performance is going? Would you want to be part of this audience?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a friend gave me a copy of Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, from Ok-Go, a band I was planning to not like very much. I knew they had catchy videos and all that. So maybe it was that this music made a good accompaniment to prepping a Sunday night lasagna, but I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/audience-participation\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[981,979,980],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}