{"id":651,"date":"2007-06-05T00:09:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T00:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2007-06-05T00:09:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T00:09:50","slug":"sprocket-at-the-esplanade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/general\/sprocket-at-the-esplanade-651","title":{"rendered":"Sprocket at the Esplanade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw the Sprocket in front of the Esplanade in Singapore recently. It was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/06\/sprocket1.jpg' alt='Sprocket' \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sprocket is a funky musical vehicle that features a 2nd story junk drum kit, trash marimba and thongophone, and various tuned percussive discoveries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The materials for the Sprocket are all recycled and the only energy input is human.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>thongophone<\/strong>, by the way, is an Australian instrument made of different length tubes, something like a pipe organ. When whacked with a thong (or 'flip-flop', or 'slippers', depending on where you come from), it produces an interesting deep marimba-like sound.<\/p>\n<p>What impressed me was the enthusiasm of the performers, who were from South Korea. They really enjoyed themselves and their abundant fun was infectious.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/06\/sprocket5.jpg' alt='sprocket' \/><\/p>\n<p>Each surface of the Sprocket contained a musical instrument. They moved slowly through the crowd and generated quite a buzz.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/06\/sprocket6.jpg' alt='Sprocket' \/><\/p>\n<p>Now I'm looking forward to more home grown street performers. Oh, Singapore will need to drop the ban on that activity first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/general\/sprocket-at-the-esplanade-651#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sprocket was used in a street performance near the Esplanade in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}