{"id":3508,"date":"2012-07-20T17:17:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T00:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/deconstructing-dad\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T00:23:19","slug":"deconstructing-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/20\/deconstructing-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/13\/movies\/deconstructing-dad-recalls-raymond-scott-musical-inventor.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The NY Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>An Artist and Inventor Whose Medium Was Sound<\/h1>\n<p><em>\u2018Deconstructing Dad\u2019 Recalls Raymond Scott, Musical Inventor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/h\/stephen_holden\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">STEPHEN HOLDEN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/07\/13\/arts\/13DECONSTRUCTING\/DECONSTRUCTING-popup.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"auto\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\" alt=\"CAVU Pictures\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott\u201d is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pearlsnapdiscount.com\/2012\/07\/10\/interview-with-deconstructing-dad-director-stan-warnow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stan Warnow\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0heartfelt documentary about the life and legacy of his emotionally remote father, an eccentric techno-music pioneer. In Scott\u2019s single-minded pursuit of an offbeat musical vision, he has been compared to Frank Zappa; one talking head describes him as \u201can audio version of Andy Warhol.\u201d Like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/283285\/My-Architect-Movie-\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMy Architect,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Nathaniel Kahn\u2019s film about his father, Louis I. Kahn, this documentary is a son\u2019s attempt to forge a posthumous bond with an elusive parent.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, who died in 1994, belonged to that breed of obsessed genius-inventors who focus so intensely on their work that fame and riches are almost incidental. Shy and secretive, he preferred to remain in the background even after achieving some renown. When shown in front of the camera, he is visibly uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Brooklyn in 1908 (he legally changed his name from Harry Warnow), Scott enjoyed hits in the late 1930s as the leader, composer and arranger of the Raymond Scott Quintette, a progressive swing ensemble whose peppy, hyper-agitated instrumentals included \u201cTwilight in Turkey\u201d and \u201cThe Toy Trumpet.\u201d The music sounded like jazz but wasn\u2019t, because no element was left to chance.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/13\/movies\/deconstructing-dad-recalls-raymond-scott-musical-inventor.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The NY Times An Artist and Inventor Whose Medium Was Sound \u2018Deconstructing Dad\u2019 Recalls Raymond Scott, Musical Inventor By\u00a0STEPHEN HOLDEN \u201cDeconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott\u201d is\u00a0Stan Warnow\u2019s\u00a0heartfelt documentary about the life and legacy of his emotionally remote father, an eccentric techno-music pioneer. In Scott\u2019s single-minded pursuit of an offbeat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}