{"id":349,"date":"2010-06-18T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/welcome\/greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts\/"},"modified":"2010-06-18T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T09:25:00","slug":"greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater than the sum of its parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m busy working out the track order for my upcoming cd, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Day the Money Run Out<\/span>. I am finding it a fascinating process. We&#8217;ve recorded 14 songs, so how many possibilities does that add up to? Anyone want to do the math for me? (If I remember anything from Grade 10, I believe that might involve exponents).<\/p>\n<p>Some choices are so easy: the first and last songs are no brainers (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Buy More Buddhas<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Never Too Late<\/span>, respectively), and for some unknown reason, it seems dead obvious to me &#8211; like a law of nature &#8211; that the title track should either be Track 3 or Track 4. Why? I have no idea, except that my favourite song on an album is so often the third or fourth, that it <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">can&#8217;t<\/span> be a coincidence. As for the rest of it, it&#8217;s all trial and error, moving things around, listening, rearranging, trying to create the right flow of tempo, theme, key.<\/p>\n<p>How do you approach these kinds of tasks? Not necessarily in terms of an album: what about set lists or scenes in a story or play, arranging quilt squares or photos in an album or pieces of art for a gallery show (or on your walls at home)? What are the rules you&#8217;re guided by, the beliefs, the prejudices? I&#8217;m curious to learn more about how ordering contributes to the impact of creative work, how a greater whole is created out of different elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m busy working out the track order for my upcoming cd, The Day the Money Run Out. I am finding it a fascinating process. We&#8217;ve recorded 14 songs, so how many possibilities does that add up to? Anyone want to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,52,70,140,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaos","category-creativity","category-new-cd","category-order","category-the-day-the-money-run-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}