{"id":1300,"date":"2014-03-08T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=1300"},"modified":"2019-08-15T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:26:39","slug":"window-seat","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/works\/window-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Window Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; align_horizontal=&#8221;align_center&#8221; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;80463&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1565634554112{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;]Yoko Reikano Kimura, James Nyoraku Schlefer and the Cassatt String Quartet[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]Like many, I\u2019ve always been fascinated by air travel. There is something both unnatural and transformative in viewing the world from 30,000 feet. Surveying the Earth from the window of a jet, one witnesses it from the kind of distance that provides an immense source of perspective. One confronts nature\u2019s beauty, and Mankind\u2019s marks on the natural landscape. \u201cWindow Seat\u201d is a series of seven portraits as seen from the air, played without interruption.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ascent and Acceleration:<\/strong> The strings gradually rise and gain momentum, leading to the thrill of being catapulted into the sky<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breaking Through:<\/strong> The shakuhachi and koto announce themselves by hammering their way through dense clouds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cloud Sculptures:<\/strong> Here the shakuhachi takes a leading role, floating above a sea of clouds that rise up in billowing pillars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crop Circles:<\/strong> The landscape of the American West is dotted with circular agricultural fields which are revealed only from above, appearing like a canvas painted with geometric patterns. The strings begin and then trade their circling patterns off to the koto before the entire ensemble joins in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Endless Blue:<\/strong> A meditation on the immensity of the oceans, the strings swell in and out of chords like waves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rippling Ranges:<\/strong> The shakuhachi and koto begin with rustling, unsynchronized patterns, rising and falling like mountain peaks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Descent:<\/strong> The journey completed, instruments echo each other in gentle falling lines, all converging in the end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Window Seat<\/em> was composed for James Nyoraku Schlefer, Yoko Reikano Kimura, and the Cassatt String Quartet.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shakuhachi, koto, string quartet<br \/>\n(2014) 15&#8242;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1301,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"portfolio_category":[116,107,111],"class_list":["post-1300","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-chamber-music","portfolio_category-japanese","portfolio_category-strings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80923,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1300\/revisions\/80923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}