{"id":1138,"date":"2008-12-14T10:31:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T10:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2014-03-06T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:21:46","slug":"brief-but-not-uncharacteristic-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"brief but not uncharacteristic diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s both a curse and a blessing that I’m so easily diverted… this morning, mention of Alan Lomax’s Cantometrics<\/i><\/a> (in Ned Sublette’s Cuba and Its Music<\/b><\/a>) got me hunting for the various resources I already have and could find to augment what I have. Alas, Lomax’s Cantometrics: An approach to the anthropology of music<\/b> (1978, audiocassettes and a handbook) is long out of print and seemingly unavailable via the usual sources (though WorldCat tells me<\/a> that Colby and University of Maine at Orono have it). A Google search led to Tim O’Brien’s posting of a talk by Armand Leroi A New Science of Music: Digital Cantometrics and the Evolution of Music<\/a>, a 30+-minute YouTube video which I want to listen<\/i> to (but don’t want to take the time to watch at the moment –though O’Brien provides a transcript). I remembered that Rob Kehler had found a conversion utility that (among other things) extracts YouTube audio to an mp3, so I found his reference in an email message and tried out vixy.net<\/a> on that video. It stalled at 74% of the conversion, so I tried VidtoMP3.com<\/a>, but its conversion dead-ended with no MP3 file. So I fired up Audacity to capture the sound in real time, for listening as I walk or drive. Meanwhile, a trip to the file drawers in the barn did locate the Cantometrics<\/i> folder, with some photocopies and course handout materials from 20-odd years ago, so I added a few more bits of paper, and more than an hour later I’m ready to go on to something else. So it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s both a curse and a blessing that I’m so easily diverted… this morning, mention of Alan Lomax’s Cantometrics (in Ned Sublette’s Cuba and Its Music) got me hunting for the various resources I already have and could find to augment what I have. Alas, Lomax’s Cantometrics: An approach to the anthropology of music (1978, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}