Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/377579/?format=api
{ "id": 377579, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/377579/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-09-06T16:50:07-07:00", "show": 6282, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/6282/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "(Downtown) Dancing", "track_id": "44f94d50-d5ed-4f61-86f0-37a8e4e36d57", "recording_id": null, "artist": "YACHT", "artist_ids": [ "f6a0a03f-3b2f-4d3a-b4b4-34ca4ce7f3cb" ], "album": "(Downtown) Dancing", "release_id": "d44a3934-e547-40f1-8cb9-95af4659fdac", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "DFA Records" ], "label_ids": [ "32d02635-98fc-4405-94e1-e5b06f9d2025" ], "release_date": "2019-06-21", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The track, which is the first from an upcoming album, was composed as part of the band’s recent work with artificial intelligence. For “(Downtown) Dancing,” the three-person group—which now includes former touring member Rob “Bobby Birdman” Kieswetter—used machine learning tools like Google Magenta’s Music VAE model and NSynth hardware synthesizer to write the lyrics, compose the melodies, and assist with the sound design. The lyrics to the song were also written by a neural network. In a recent lecture at Google’s annual I/O conference, vocalist Claire Evans describes how she and her bandmates began experimenting with A.I. in an effort to find new material within their back catalog. “We hoped that this would result in songs that had that indefinable YACHT feeling, which we don’t know how to quantify and I don’t think the model can, either,” Evans says in the talk. https://bit.ly/2xy0cxS", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }