{"id":2086,"date":"2012-02-07T22:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2012-02-07T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T11:37:08","slug":"amiinas-soundscapes-for-lotte-reinigers-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2012\/02\/07\/amiinas-soundscapes-for-lotte-reinigers-animations\/","title":{"rendered":"Amiina&#8217;s soundscapes for Lotte Reiniger&#8217;s animations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x4wc6s_the-art-of-lotte-reiniger-1953-1971_shortfilms\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was amazed when I first learnt about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lotte_Reiniger\">Lotte Reiniger<\/a>\u00a0a few years ago and saw this video of how she made her stop motion shadow puppetry films.\u00a0The intricacy and deftness with which she plans, cuts and arranges the silhouettes, and the matter-of-factness in how she describes the process is quite breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>The Icelandic band\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amiina.com\/\">Amiina<\/a>\u00a0play beautiful new musical soundscapes for three of Reiniger&#8217;s animated fairly tales in their live show\u00a0<em>Animagica<\/em>, which has been touring Australia recently. Their\u00a0instruments\u00a0include\u00a0violin, glassophone, musical saw and water-filled glasses. Below is a sampler of the performance, but you can also see more-or-less complete filmed performances of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NBhHRxwKShc\">Aladdin and the Magic Lamp<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8dLAvDRve-c\">Cinderella<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QEoAu3t4vag&amp;feature=related\">Sleeping Beauty<\/a>\u00a0at YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O6Q6hXgeLO0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"355\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was amazed when I first learnt about Lotte Reiniger\u00a0a few years ago and saw this video of how she made her stop motion shadow puppetry films.\u00a0The intricacy and deftness with which she plans, cuts and arranges the silhouettes, and the matter-of-factness in how she describes the process is quite breathtaking. The Icelandic band\u00a0Amiina\u00a0play beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[1207,1208,1206,1355,1365],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","tag-amiina","tag-animagica","tag-lotte-reiniger","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-xE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}