{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 45: Acting As If I\u2019m Pinocchio","description":"In this year end reflection, Alec and Nick discuss the folkloric figure of Pinocchio\u2014a \u201cconstantly lying wooden marionette,\u201d whose dual consciousness (as both an abject dummy and an aspiring human) suggests a parable for understanding musical problems of \u201cliveness\u201d and \u201cdeadness\u201d and the puppetry of musical commodification. Taking up Carlo Collodi\u2019s late 19th century series  \u201cThe Adventures of Pinocchio\u201d as a text that precodes social and political movements in the 20th century\u2014including local and global perspectives of artisan class-politics, Marxism, Italian unification, and fascism\u2014the conversation follows into an analysis of the puppet-like dramaturgy of musical political economies. Matters at hand include civic responsibility, deception, education, fatalism, and the recent factions within consumer-level breakthroughs in AI technology as a tool in Gepetto\u2019s impoverished workshop, or, as a set of masks in the commedia dell\u2019arte of digital production. In the end, the duo prescribe the entirety of musical commodification as a Pinocchio Story that proclaims \u201chow funny I was when I was a puppet! And how happy I am now to have become a nice-a boy!\u201d ","author_name":"Flavortone","author_url":"http:\/\/flavortone.libsyn.com\/website","html":"