{"id":9127,"date":"2024-01-24T03:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=9127"},"modified":"2024-01-24T03:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:02:55","slug":"island-of-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/island-of-sadness\/","title":{"rendered":"Island of Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NUcy7mLpEjY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote and recorded this melody 2 or 3 years ago when I was first getting back to my music after almost a decade of self-imposed exile from composing. &nbsp;Life had kind of imploded and it took me that long to find my Muse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, this one isn&#8217;t polished at all and has no lyrics, though it could use some. &nbsp;Just me and the piano, live with no processing, recorded direct to my laptop microphone from the keyboard&#8217;s speakers with me carrying the melody, open air in the garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, it is a haunting tune and I think one of my best, or at least one of my most mature pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also &#8211; the music cuts off at the end so it is hard to hear, but the last key is in a major chord, so the entire song ends, literally, on a positive note, which I thought was rather nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote and recorded this melody 2 or 3 years ago when I was first getting back to my music after almost a decade of self-imposed exile from composing. &nbsp;Life had kind of imploded and it took me that long to find my Muse. Anyway, this one isn&#8217;t polished at all and has no lyrics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-compositions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-2nd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9128,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions\/9128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}