{"id":4371,"date":"2015-02-10T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2015-02-10T12:40:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:40:20","slug":"object-songs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2015\/object-songs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Object Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Object Songs<\/strong> (2014) are a collaboration with illustrator and author Maira Kalman, a longtime friend and source of constant inspiration and delight. These songs are a response to a room Maira curated in New York\u2019s Cooper Hewitt Museum, as well as two books she wrote about the objects she chose to be in the room. The emotional centerpiece of the room is Abraham Lincoln\u2019s funeral shroud, as well as his pocket watch, which was made to tick again in 2014. That ticking is behind the first song, which urges us: \u201ctake your time.\u201d The second song, about a shoe, urges us, quickly, \u201cgo out and walk.\u201d The third song is a slow meditation about spoons and the emotional possibilities of soup. The fourth, fifth, and sixth songs (performed without pause) go back to the written word: the text for the fourth is gibberish, abstractly derived from an almost illegibly complicated calligraphic page written by Jan Dan de Velde in 1605. The fifth is from an anonymous needlework sampler, saying, \u201cAmor nos une\u201d (love unites us), and is sung unaccompanied. The sixth song sets Maira\u2019s text \u2014 found in her book My Favorite Things \u2014 about the power of objects and rooms in our memories and in our sense of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Music \u2013Nico Muhly<br \/>\nText \u2013 Maira Kalman<br \/>\nSoprano \u2013 Anne-Carolyn Bird<br \/>\nViola \u2013 Nadia Sirota<br \/>\nViolin \u2013 Rob Moose<br \/>\nClarinet \u2013 Hideaki Aomori<br \/>\nTrumpet \u2013 CJ Camerieri\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Object Songs (2014) are a collaboration with illustrator and author Maira Kalman, a longtime friend and source of constant inspiration and delight. These songs are a response to a room Maira curated in New York\u2019s Cooper Hewitt Museum, as well as two books she wrote about the objects she chose to be in the room. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4373,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}