{"id":291,"date":"2016-09-06T02:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T07:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/?p=291"},"modified":"2016-09-06T02:35:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T07:35:31","slug":"melodysheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/2016\/09\/06\/melodysheep\/","title":{"rendered":"MelodySheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think one of the most\u00a0interesting examples of remixed media is the work done by YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/melodysheep\">MelodySheep<\/a>.\u00a0Headed by John Boswell, MelodySheep\u00a0creates song remixes\u00a0out of\u00a0non-musical media\u00a0(at least, non-musical in the conventional sense). For example, after Steve Irwin&#8217;s death, MelodySheep released a tribute song comprised of a number of\u00a0Irwin&#8217;s iconic quotes and appearances from his career, all streamlined into a piece that was\u00a0touching, poetic, and heartwarming. It fascinates me that\u00a0MelodySheep can turn just\u00a0about anything into music with\u00a0enough\u00a0clever splicing and autotune\u00a0(which I suppose makes you think about what music really <em>is<\/em>), and how each song is able to represent its original inspiration\u00a0as both\u00a0a fitting homage\u00a0and a novel, standalone creation.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tE1HDSipRxU?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think one of the most\u00a0interesting examples of remixed media is the work done by YouTube channel MelodySheep.\u00a0Headed by John Boswell, MelodySheep\u00a0creates song remixes\u00a0out of\u00a0non-musical media\u00a0(at least, non-musical in the conventional sense). For example, after Steve Irwin&#8217;s death, MelodySheep released &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/2016\/09\/06\/melodysheep\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/500x500.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7TOgG-4H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}