{"id":102,"date":"2015-11-05T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bjmklein.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2016-01-17T03:13:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T03:13:49","slug":"new-uses-for-old-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"New Uses for Old Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently undertaken an overhaul of my Bandcamp and SoundCloud accounts, and I&#8217;ve decided to take a\u00a0more &#8220;unprofessional&#8221; direction in this endeavor. \u00a0I found my early attempts at using these platforms, to launch DIY albums, to be rather unsatisfying. \u00a0Shortly after posting, I spent my time and energy on other projects, or on life events, than focusing on the hype needed to push these projects to successful levels. I&#8217;ve realized\u00a0for a very long time, that using these platforms, as they may have been intended as launch pads for independent commercial success, was not in line with my own approach.<\/p>\n<p>I am interested once again by Bandcamp and SoundCloud by considering how I can use the platform designs themselves\u00a0as\u00a0a basis for a creative project. \u00a0 I use the tiling layout in Bandcamp as a way to present my work as though it were an advent calendar, a little surprise behind every door. \u00a0By clicking on different\u00a0tiles, the person on the other end of the mouse encounters a new, strange, and contrasting track. \u00a0The soundfiles that lie behind each track aren&#8217;t intended to be a mastered commercial product, but instead a different experience than the one clicked on before. \u00a0By thinking of my Bandcamp page as a way to present my work as a mini web installation, the platform makes more sense to me. You can take a listen at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bjmklein.bandcamp.com\/\">http:\/\/bjmklein.bandcamp.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-05-at-4.47.43-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-05-at-4.47.43-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-11-05 at 4.47.43 PM\" width=\"503\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-05-at-4.47.43-PM.png 981w, https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-05-at-4.47.43-PM-300x279.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have decided to use <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/benjamin-mansavage-klein\">my Soundcloud<\/a>\u00a0as a sonic journal, or a curated collection of small, miscellaneous, sound objects that provides the mouse user with a rich array of items to peruse. \u00a0Again, not the mastered commercial nuggets, but snippets (as the terms originally applies if I were working in analog) of my perspective.<\/p>\n<p>I am certainly not the first to present work like this online. \u00a0Some examples of others who have caught my attention are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theuse.info\/\">Chris Mann (the poet)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/costisdrygianakis\">Costis Drygianakis<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annlivyoung.com\/\">Ann Liv Young<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dgorfinkel\">Dale Gorfinkel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently undertaken an overhaul of my Bandcamp and SoundCloud accounts, and I&#8217;ve decided to take a\u00a0more &#8220;unprofessional&#8221; direction in this endeavor. \u00a0I found my early attempts at using these platforms, to launch DIY albums, to be rather unsatisfying. \u00a0Shortly after posting, I spent my time and energy on other projects, or on life events, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-recordings","tag-bandcamp","tag-soundcloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminjmansavageklei.apps-1and1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}