{"id":543,"date":"2014-11-12T02:44:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T09:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/?p=543"},"modified":"2022-05-24T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T19:20:12","slug":"the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/the-books","title":{"rendered":"Episode 22: The Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subhead\">&#8220;Smells Like Content&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SongExploder22.png\" alt=\"SongExploder22\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SongExploder22.png 600w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SongExploder22-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?uf=https%3A%2F%2Ff.prxu.org%2Fsong-exploder%2Ffeed-rss.xml&#038;ge=ea420275c5a706df5f1c17ad5d2dd91e\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"download-links\">DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-books-smells-like-content\/id788236947?i=324162845&#038;mt=2?&#038;uo=4&#038;at=10lMg6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTUNES<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/dovetail.prxu.org\/song-exploder\/394303b7-3fe3-4945-a72c-691849577c92\/SongExploder22-TheBooks-DT.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MP3<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Before <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Books\">The Books<\/a> broke up, they released four albums that combined composed music and found sounds. In this episode, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zammutosound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Zammuto<\/a> explains how he crafted the song Smells Like Content, off of their 2005 album <em>Lost and Safe<\/em>, out of unlikely sources, like geometry, chance encounters, and a corrugated PVC pipe.   <\/p>\n<p>This video demonstrates how Nick Zammuto creates rhythms within the locked groove of a vinyl record:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/72615472?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Buy &#8220;Smells Like Content&#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/smells-like-content\/id410842405?i=410842409&#038;uo=4&#038;at=10lMg6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a transcript of this episode, <a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\/transcripts\/the-books-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"header\">footnotes<\/span><br \/>\nAfter The Books ended, Nick Zammuto started a solo project, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zammutosound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zammuto<\/a>. Check out the new Zammuto record, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/anchor\/id888864804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anchor<\/a><\/em>, and read Nick&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/zammutosound.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extensive notes<\/a> on the making of each track on the record on <a href=\"http:\/\/zammutosound.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his blog<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"endsign\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Smells Like Content&#8221; DOWNLOAD: iTUNES \u00b7 MP3 Before The Books broke up, they released four albums that combined composed music and found sounds. 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