{"id":18332,"date":"2020-04-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=18332"},"modified":"2020-04-27T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:52:35","slug":"violist-being-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/28\/violist-being-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"violist being creative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently I got a reply to one of my posts where I was talking about trying to reconnect with my love of music and playing the viola. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCK1H7xMC-5YCV7qxxH0Nr9A\">Mario Gheorghiu<\/a> from Vienna sent me this video of one of his recent projects which he undertook to try to break out of his own creative funk. I think he succeeded very well, don&#8217;t you? Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/04dMBzbtPG4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I got a reply to one of my posts where I was talking about trying to reconnect with my love of music and playing the viola. Mario Gheorghiu from Vienna sent me this video of one of his recent projects which he undertook to try to break out of his own creative funk. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[3998,4000,3999,3660],"class_list":["post-18332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","category-viola","tag-michael-jackson","tag-owner-of-a-lonely-heart","tag-smooth-criminal","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-4LG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12611,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/22\/viola-via-google-glass\/","url_meta":{"origin":18332,"position":0},"title":"viola via google glass","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"via Colossal \"Google Creative Director\u00a0Alexander Chen\u00a0(who previously\u00a0turned NYC transit data into music) recently sat down with his viola and a pair of\u00a0Google Glass\u00a0specs to record snippets of video and audio which he then looped and edited to create this miniature orchestra. 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The viola is, of course, my chosen instrument (although I think that's not quite correct\u2013I think it chose me), and there are a lot of cool and not so well-known things about it that you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;viola&quot;","block_context":{"text":"viola","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/instruments\/viola\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6048,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/25\/viola-goodies\/","url_meta":{"origin":18332,"position":5},"title":"viola goodies","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 I've been scouring YouTube for any new (and impressive) viola videos, and there are quite a few that I hadn't seen before. If you are still of the notion that the viola is a second-string (sorry) instrument, then you are sadly misinformed! 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