{"id":3739,"date":"2025-05-01T12:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:36:54","slug":"music-for-klingons-lotd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=3739","title":{"rendered":"Music for Klingons (LotD)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure this is the geekiest music video I will see all year. It&#8217;s from a person named <strong>Levi McClain<\/strong>, whose YouTube channel has the tag line<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Microtonal music theory. Bargain brand musicology essays. Sometimes bass.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s worth checking out minimally because he includes audio examples of the various esoteric topics he gets on about. Definitely a mind warp for a &#8220;12 tet&#8221; audience. (Hint: watch his videos for an explanation.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway&#8230; In this case he&#8217;s got a video that combines two of my geeky interests, Star Trek and Music Theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Klingon Music Theory is Weird\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1LjcBv-OWtQ?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure this is the geekiest music video I will see all year. It&#8217;s from a person named Levi McClain, whose YouTube channel has the tag line Microtonal music theory. Bargain brand musicology essays. Sometimes bass. He&#8217;s worth checking out minimally because he includes audio examples of the various esoteric topics he gets on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkoftheday","category-music","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3742,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}