{"id":637,"date":"2022-04-12T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T15:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/?p=637"},"modified":"2022-12-10T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T14:04:39","slug":"german-laugher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/artifacts\/german-laugher\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen George Smith &#8211; German Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/gajoob11Collection\/001%20Stephen%20Smith%20-%20german%20laughter.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had been reading a book about Germany, and their role in world war two, and, being of German heritage, I felt a lot of guilt. I recorded this piece, mixed it, and, days later, listened to it, and heard a stark, German soundscape , I thought, jeez! this is friggin\u2019 harsh, stark, menacing! all the stereotypes I had had for all things German. I thought to myself, \u201cWell, this came out of me, nothing to do but laugh.\u201d and there it was, German laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used a simple \u201cpad\u201d distortion, with heavy pans, simple piano, and an old stratocaster, a whiff of reverb on the piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/uncategorized\/stephen-george-smith\/\">The Stephen George Smith Exhibit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:22% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/tag\/discussions\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/discussionscover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-639 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/discussionscover.jpg 450w, https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/discussionscover-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/discussionscover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/discussionscover-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Discover Sounds was an unpublished book project by GAJOOB in 2010 featuring over 100 tracks by artists discussing them. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been reading a book about Germany, and their role in world war two, and, being of German heritage, I felt a lot of guilt. I recorded this piece, mixed it, and, days later, listened to it, and heard a stark, German soundscape , I thought, jeez! this is friggin\u2019 harsh, stark, menacing! all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[124,133,200],"tags":[217,209,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundmusicmuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}