{"id":3096,"date":"2016-07-12T22:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T21:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2016-07-12T22:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T21:51:52","slug":"obscure-functionalism-melting-into-majestic-land-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/obscure-functionalism-melting-into-majestic-land-art\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Obscure functionalism melting into majestic land art&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Sound mirrors are no longer a failed technology. They are art.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cNQixCkKxD\">https:\/\/t.co\/cNQixCkKxD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2gbC02lJ4T\">pic.twitter.com\/2gbC02lJ4T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; theQuietus (@theQuietus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theQuietus\/status\/752404598359412740\">July 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><q>The mirrors\u2019 fruitlessness may be forgiven if only because of the uncanny impression one gets that they were built for a future not yet seen or understood. Indeed, its second life as a monument and relic has been more enduring than its first.<\/q>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christo Hall visits the sound mirrors on the Kent coast with photographer Stuart Leech and &#8220;finds an obscure functionalism melting into majestic land art&#8221;, in <a href=\"http:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/20558-sound-mirrors-raw-conrete-this-brutal-world-concrete-concept-brutalism\">The Second Life Of Concrete: Brutalism\u2019s Renaissance<\/a>, published by The Quietus on 10 July 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Sound mirrors are no longer a failed technology. They are art.&quot; https:\/\/t.co\/cNQixCkKxD pic.twitter.com\/2gbC02lJ4T &mdash; theQuietus (@theQuietus) July 11, 2016 The mirrors\u2019 fruitlessness may be forgiven if only because of the uncanny impression one gets that they were built for a future not yet seen or understood. Indeed, its second life as a monument and relic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12,23,32],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound-mirrors","tag-abbots-cliff","tag-denge","tag-hythe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}