{"id":106,"date":"2008-03-05T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbueno.com\/wp\/meisakuki\/2008\/03\/05\/existential_eur\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T21:02:30","slug":"existential_eur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/2008\/03\/05\/existential_eur\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential Eureka Moments in the Seismic Context Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From two messages posted by a friend of mine on Twitter, I posited that <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NemesisVex\/statuses\/767078662\"><em>Existential Eureka Moments in the Seismic Context Shift<\/em> would make a good fake title for a Guided By Voices album<\/a>. I&#8217;ve since grown an attachment to the phrase and will use it on something for Eponymous 4 instead.<br \/>\nIs it hazardous to have a title before an actual idea?<br \/>\n<em>From Acadia to Zenith<\/em>, another title I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/entry\/3373\/\">vowed<\/a> to turn into an Eponymous 4 project, sounds great, but now I have to contemplate what kind of work would be suitable for it. Perhaps I&#8217;m putting the cart before the proverbial horse.<br \/>\n<em>Existential Eureka Moments in the Seismic Context Shift<\/em> almost sounds like a greatest hits collection, though.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAs of this writing, I&#8217;m juggling these ideas for future Eponymous 4 endeavors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> A collaboration with my friend Double-A, code named Eponymous 4 \u00d7 Sharazad, where she writes lyrics and I write music to them. Three lyrics have been done so far. Gotta follow-up to see any more are in the works.\n<li> A second string quartet, perhaps even a third. I want to gauge how far I&#8217;ve gotten as a writer in the 20-some odd years since my first quartet.\n<li> <em>From Acadia to Zenith<\/em>, most likely the follow-up to \u300c\u5065\u5fd8\u75c7\u300d, making it the second album of entirely newly-written material.\n<li> <em>Existential Eureka Moments in the Seismic Context Shift<\/em> is a project of an undetermined nature, although the more I think about it, the more it feels archival.<\/ul>\n<p>At some point I&#8217;m going to have to stop fantasizing and get to work.<br \/>\n<strong>[UPDATE, 3\/5\/2008, 2:45 pm]<\/strong> I&#8217;ve always wanted to write a piece for the instrumentation of the Bang on a Can All-Stars (clarinet, cello, keyboard, electric guitar, bass, drums), and I&#8217;ve always thought Guided By Voices&#8217; <em>Bee Thousand<\/em> had the vague feel of a long-form classical piece. Since <em>Existential Eureka Moments in the Seismic Context Shift<\/em> strikes me as a fake Guided By Voices album title, I figure that&#8217;s my starting point for such a piece.<br \/>\nNow the question is whether I can pull something like this off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it hazardous to have a title before an actual idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkir-1I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}