{"id":486,"date":"2008-09-08T23:29:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T07:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2008-09-08T23:31:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T07:31:52","slug":"harold-budd-mini-piece-for-bath-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Harold Budd mini piece for Bath Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/budsolo-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/budsolo-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Harold Budd\" title=\"harold_budd\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/budsolo-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/budsolo-2.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harold Budd was commissioned to compose a short piece for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bathmusicfest.org.uk\/\">2008 Bath Festival<\/a> for its 60th anniversary. Typical Budd, a few notes can carry a hell of a lot of weight. Last year&#8217;s out-of-retirement &#8220;Perhaps&#8221; released as a digital-only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samadhisound.com\/catalogue\/sounddl001_harold_budd_perhaps.html\">download<\/a> on Samadhi Sound was totally stunning.<\/p>\n<p>The Bath Festival organizers decided to make a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bathmusicfest.org.uk\/index.php?id=384\">contest<\/a> out of Budd&#8217;s mini-piece, The Midnight Winds of London, and have contributors submit their own versions. <\/p>\n<p>The original:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/mp3s\/blog\/The_Midnight_Winds_of_London.mp3\">mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The score:<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/budd_midnightwinds.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/budd_midnightwinds-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"budd_midnightwinds\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/budd_midnightwinds-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/budd_midnightwinds.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One take:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gbGZX3p5RJI&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gbGZX3p5RJI&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Budd was commissioned to compose a short piece for the 2008 Bath Festival for its 60th anniversary. Typical Budd, a few notes can carry a hell of a lot of weight. Last year&#8217;s out-of-retirement &#8220;Perhaps&#8221; released as a digital-only download on Samadhi Sound was totally stunning. The Bath Festival organizers decided to make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}