{"id":1230,"date":"2025-08-08T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:33:57","slug":"the-16-61-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/2025\/08\/08\/the-16-61-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The 16\/61 Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>When I was sixteen, I used to think about 2020, saying to myself that I would be sixty then and that&#8217;d be strange, but it turned out way weirder than I could have imagined. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>16\/61<\/em> is a set of conversations between my sixteen-year-old self and the more or less present-tense version. The sixteen-year-old gets veto power on all the music, so I designed it to impress. That is, it has some loud stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have these five songs ready, a nice little EP&#8217;s worth with more on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"16\/61 by rich rath\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1462445377&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=750\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not so much an archive, <em>16\/61<\/em> arrives at an understanding between the two, an alienated runaway teen and an unexpected grownup. I\u2019ve loosely drawn on sounds and music that I made and played as a teen to record now. Sometimes I had music but no words; sometimes vice-versa; sometimes scraps of each. Other times, it was just a sound\u2014tone, really\u2014that I had in my head that made me feel alive; Or maybe a story that was just true enough to run with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These interior sounds transform when they meet the air. Making them real is a live process, like guitar feedback that grows the tones into things wondrous or terrible (or both!). When they enter a space, the sounds in my head can be shaped and pointed in a direction, ridden like waves, or grown like gardens, but never actually controlled. The experience is more like traveling together than being the boss of it, and I love the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music remains a place of refuge, a place for working things through, thinking and feeling outside the language box, for the sheer fun of playing to discover what I\u2019ll hear this time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this gift \u2013 perhaps to you, but foremost just to me\u2014I owe a troubled kid who chose to dream and to dare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was sixteen, I used to think about 2020, saying to myself that I would be sixty then and that&#8217;d be strange, but it turned out way weirder than I could have imagined. 16\/61 is a set of conversations between my sixteen-year-old self and the more or less present-tense version. The sixteen-year-old gets veto&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/2025\/08\/08\/the-16-61-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 16\/61 Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-16-61","tag-post-punk","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}