{"id":3365,"date":"2014-08-21T04:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T04:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2014-08-21T04:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T04:31:03","slug":"zed-is-dead-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3365","title":{"rendered":"Zed Is Dead Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I read about a company that wanted something\u00a0similar to this song by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MBFXJw7n-fU\">Aphex Twin<\/a>\u00a0and they were paying about $20,000. That&#8217;s Mr. Aphex Twin below (obviously at the beach).<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #0f3647;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aphex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aphex.jpg\" alt=\"aphex\" width=\"308\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aphex.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aphex-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried to portray the technique of the song&#8217;s structure and not rip off it&#8217;s melody.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bob-wiseman\/apex-twin-idea\/s-30Ip8\">What I submitted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later they sent me a note rejecting my demo and even supplying me with a score of 1 out of 5\u00a0so that I don&#8217;t get any ideas about trying to do this sort of thing regularly.<\/p>\n<p>That part of the music business world where you are asked to imitate something but not make a copyright infringement is a very interesting place. The scientist in me likes figuring out what the ingredients are, \u00a0what direction the melodies move, what rhythm is being used blah blah blah and\u00a0stir.<\/p>\n<p>But the criminal mobster in me wants to locate the agent who gave me the low score and, to quote a favourite moment in film, go a little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rWOn1dFmFds\">Marsellus Wallace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PulpFiction_137Pyxurz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PulpFiction_137Pyxurz.jpg\" alt=\"PulpFiction_137Pyxurz\" width=\"1600\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PulpFiction_137Pyxurz.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PulpFiction_137Pyxurz-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PulpFiction_137Pyxurz-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PulpFiction_137Pyxurz-624x340.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I read about a company that wanted something\u00a0similar to this song by\u00a0Aphex Twin\u00a0and they were paying about $20,000. That&#8217;s Mr. Aphex Twin below (obviously at the beach). I tried <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3365\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[253,4,17],"tags":[747,748],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-composing","category-production","category-writing","tag-receiving-criticism-in-the-music-business","tag-using-tip-sheets-in-the-music-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}