{"id":2747,"date":"2014-05-21T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2014-05-21T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:09:18","slug":"black-houses-and-spring-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2014\/05\/21\/black-houses-and-spring-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Houses and Spring Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/openvirtualworlds\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2745 size-medium\" title=\"Open Virtual Worlds on Vimeo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/virtualblackhouse4.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"VirtualBlackhouse4\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/virtualblackhouse4.jpg 906w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/virtualblackhouse4-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/virtualblackhouse4-768x406.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Continuing the Hebridean &#8220;virtual reality&#8221; theme, it may be worth noting that &#8220;island voices&#8221; might sometimes be realised instrumentally &#8211; rather than purely through\u00a0 the exercising of Adam&#8217;s Apple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Spring Chickens made a notable musical contribution to Island Voices at the 2011 multilingual <a title=\"Grogarry Lodge: Community C\u00e8ilidh \u201cpar excellence\u201d!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2011\/06\/21\/grogarry-lodge-community-ceilidh-par-excellence\/\">midsummer party<\/a> at Grogarry Lodge in South Uist. While the line-up may vary from time to time the core of the group remains, and can be seen and heard supporting many a local community c\u00e8ilidh around Berneray and North Uist.<\/p>\n<p>And here they are supplying some musical background for the <a title=\"St Andrews Virtual St Kilda Project\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk\/openvirtualworlds\/reconstructions\/st-kilda\/\">Virtual St Kilda<\/a> project, in this instance looking at the construction of a traditional blackhouse.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/94504484<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the Hebridean &#8220;virtual reality&#8221; theme, it may be worth noting that &#8220;island voices&#8221; might sometimes be realised instrumentally &#8211; rather than purely through\u00a0 the exercising of Adam&#8217;s Apple&#8230; The Spring Chickens made a notable musical contribution to Island Voices at the 2011 multilingual midsummer party at Grogarry Lodge in South Uist. While the line-up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2014\/05\/21\/black-houses-and-spring-chickens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Houses and Spring Chickens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}