{"id":1073,"date":"2009-01-18T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T04:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/the-street-finds-its-own-uses-for-things"},"modified":"2009-01-18T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T04:12:04","slug":"the-street-finds-its-own-uses-for-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/the-street-finds-its-own-uses-for-things","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Street Finds Its Own Uses For Things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s one of Wm. Gibson&#8217;s best observations. To wit: Microsoft releases Songsmith, a fairly clever program that generates accompaniment (albeit banal accompaniment) for your singing. Unfortunately they plug it with a painfully awful advertisement. In response, the street starts abusing the software by running a capella recordings of well-known songs through it and showcases the results on YouTube and elsewhere. The ad and several such examples can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2009\/01\/18\/7-reasons-to-hate-microsoft-songsmith\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpop.net\/radioclash\/archives\/2009\/01\/11\/songsmith-mashups\/\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> has more.<\/p>\n<p>It seems entirely predictable that we&#8217;ll soon hear the combined output of Songsmith and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O2zX_sMxQqw\" target=\"_blank\">Vocaloid<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s one of Wm. Gibson&#8217;s best observations. To wit: Microsoft releases Songsmith, a fairly clever program that generates accompaniment (albeit banal accompaniment) for your singing. Unfortunately they plug it with a painfully awful advertisement. In response, the street starts abusing the software by running a capella recordings of well-known songs through it and showcases the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/the-street-finds-its-own-uses-for-things\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Street Finds Its Own Uses For Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}