{"id":1286,"date":"2021-08-22T15:21:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2021-08-22T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T19:21:49","slug":"new-video-steps-and-leaps-by-tom-flaherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/new-video-steps-and-leaps-by-tom-flaherty\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video &#8211; Steps and Leaps by Tom Flaherty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Watch Aaron&#8217;s latest video &#8216;Steps and Leaps&#8217; for guitar and electronics by <a href=\"http:\/\/tomflahertymusic.com\/\"><span class=\"nc684nl6\">Tom <\/span><span class=\"nc684nl6\">Flaherty<\/span><\/a>. Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing, it includes percussion, effects, and a few other things.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Video by Aaron and art work by Agust\u00edn Castilla-\u00c1vila. Premiered for the <span class=\"nc684nl6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newmusicgathering.org\/\">New Music Gathering<\/a><\/span> on August 16, 2021. In-person premiere on August 27-28 at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, Rockport, Massachusetts<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steps and Leaps by Tom Flaherty, Aaron Larget-Caplan Guitar\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9o3JP33Iv98?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>Steps and Leaps (2019) by Tom Flaherty was composed for the 50th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon, its title inspired by Neil Armstrong\u2019s first words from the surface of the moon, \u201cOne small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind.\u201d The music brings to my mind the beating hearts, ticking clocks, interlocking actors, rising tension, and release into weightlessness that I associate with that first lunar landing.<\/em><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p class=\"CDt4Ke zfr3Q\" dir=\"ltr\"><em>\u201cSteps and Leaps\u201d is dedicated to Aaron Larget-Caplan<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Aaron&#8217;s latest video &#8216;Steps and Leaps&#8217; for guitar and electronics by Tom Flaherty. Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing, it includes percussion, effects, and a few other things. Video by Aaron and art work by Agust\u00edn Castilla-\u00c1vila. Premiered for the New Music Gathering on August 16, 2021. In-person premiere on August [&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":[68,346],"tags":[290,348,349,347],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-music","category-video","tag-guitar-and-electronics","tag-new-music-gathering","tag-space","tag-tom-flaherty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}