{"id":18422,"date":"2018-12-03T16:16:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=18422"},"modified":"2019-05-17T19:49:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T23:49:49","slug":"ecuadorian-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2018\/12\/03\/ecuadorian-parade.html","title":{"rendered":"Ecuadorian Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI’ve been sorting and quasi-organizing my bottomless pit (or is it an ocean?) of audio I’ve recorded the last couple of years. It’s amazing how much there is to forget. I had been at the piano for several hours a day, recording music and peppering it with my commentary and such. It wasn’t awful but it had a lot of rough edges.<\/p>\n

Anyway, among other more positive find was this strange encounter I forgot ever happened. In the area of 28th and 29th Streets between 39th and 40th Avenues I found myself gradually surrounded by an Ecuadorian parade, an event in which the paraders appeared to outnumber the parade-goers by a hefty percentage. It’s not as good a quality recording as you might expect from the device I was using (Sony PCM-D100) but it was spontaneous and I didn’t have time to mess with the gadget.<\/p>\n

Love the sound, though:<\/p>\n

I’ve been sorting and quasi-organizing my bottomless pit (or is it an ocean?) of audio I’ve recorded the last couple of years. It’s amazing how much there is to forget. I had been at the piano for several hours a day, recording music and peppering it with my commentary and such. It wasn’t awful but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aslic","category-binaural3d","category-sounds","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-4N8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23956,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422\/revisions\/23956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}