{"id":27856,"date":"2018-02-11T14:37:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/11\/johann-johannsson-the-late-icelandic-composer-who-made-loss-sublime\/"},"modified":"2018-02-11T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T13:37:44","slug":"johann-johannsson-the-late-icelandic-composer-who-made-loss-sublime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=27856","title":{"rendered":"J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson: the late Icelandic composer who made loss sublime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best known for his film scores, J\u00f3hannsson\u2019s earlier electronic and classical work confronted existential horrorDespite its regular use during inspiring moments on nature documentaries, J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson never made music that\u2019s particularly easy listening on its own \u2013 and Lord, it\u2019s tough listening to him now. After hearing of his death, I found my notes from when I saw him at the Barbican in 2012: \u201cHe makes music for endings, shut-down mines, obsolete mainframe computers and failed utopias &#8230; the notes fade away, the stories have already finished, everything ends.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/feb\/11\/johann-johannsson-the-late-icelandic-composer-who-made-loss-sublime\" target=\"_blank\">J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson: the late Icelandic composer who made loss sublime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best known for his film scores, J\u00f3hannsson\u2019s earlier electronic and classical work confronted existential horrorDespite its regular use during inspiring moments on nature documentaries, J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson never made music that\u2019s particularly easy listening on its own \u2013 and Lord, it\u2019s tough listening to him now. After hearing of his death, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}