{"id":429,"date":"2017-08-11T17:31:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2017-08-11T17:31:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T17:31:29","slug":"what-if-all-your-work-disappeared-at-the-end-of-the-day-the-art-of-non-conformity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"What If All Your Work Disappeared At the End of the Day? : The Art of Non-Conformity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Guillebeau writes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrisguillebeau.com\/what-if-your-work-disappeared\/\">What If All Your Work Disappeared At the End of the Day? : The Art of Non-Conformity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No comments section, so I thought I&#8217;d respond here: what he describes in his blog post is why I was a musician.\u00a0 The attraction of music and other performance art for me was precisely the ephemeral nature of the work.\u00a0 You perform it for a group of people, it goes up into the air and disappears, and just leaves some sort of impression that might last anywhere from a few minutes to the rest of someone&#8217;s life.\u00a0 Recorded music, on the other hand, is really a whole different art form, revolving around permanent artifacts that can be revisited, like painting, literature (the analogy might be to conversation) or (especially) photography.<\/p>\n<p>When I wrote music, I started with the distinction between recorded music and performed music.\u00a0 Quite different ways to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Guillebeau writes: What If All Your Work Disappeared At the End of the Day? : The Art of Non-Conformity. No comments section, so I thought I&#8217;d respond here: what he describes in his blog post is why I was a musician.\u00a0 The attraction of music and other performance art for me was precisely the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}