{"id":1484,"date":"2011-05-09T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T05:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2011-05-07T23:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T21:05:54","slug":"monday-mix-japanese-gravity-marimba-plays-bach-in-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Monday Mix: Japanese Gravity Marimba Plays Bach In Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-683\" title=\"Topic - Movies\" src=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Topic-Movies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Todays post is not really a mix, but this has still seriously got to be the most awesome advert I have seen in a <em>LONG<\/em> time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2011\/04\/japanese-gravity-marimba-plays-bach-in-an-ancient-forest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Make<\/a> had this post about an advert for the Sharp SH-08C handset, that was filmed a day before the earthquake and tsunami disaster. \u00a0The company built a long marimba in the forest and using only a wooden ball played a tune&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1485\" title=\"japanese-gravity-marimba\" src=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/japanese-gravity-marimba.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/japanese-gravity-marimba.jpeg 420w, http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/japanese-gravity-marimba-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To quote the post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>This remarkably beautiful video, uploaded to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/C_CDLBTJD4M\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> one day before the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, turns out to be an ad for Sharp\u2019s SH-08C handset. It is, nonetheless, something you shouldn\u2019t miss: in a tranquil forest, a single wooden ball rolls down a stepped wooden ramp, continuously, for two minutes. At each step, it falls and strikes a wooden bar tuned to play a single note of the 10th movement of Bach\u2019s <\/em>Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147<em>, commonly known by its English title, <\/em>Jesu, Joy of Man\u2019s Desiring<em>. Wait \u2019till you see how they handle the sustained notes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Enjoy the video:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C_CDLBTJD4M]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2011\/04\/japanese-gravity-marimba-plays-bach-in-an-ancient-forest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Make<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todays post is not really a mix, but this has still seriously got to be the most awesome advert I have seen in a LONG time. Make had this post about an advert for the Sharp SH-08C handset, that was filmed a day before the earthquake and tsunami disaster. \u00a0The company built a long marimba [&hellip;]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}