{"id":1446,"date":"2016-10-06T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=1446"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:46:38","slug":"horizontal-drift","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/horizontal-drift\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizontal Drift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Horizontal Drift\u00a0(2016)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>for quarter-tone guitar and electronics [10:00]<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=1170542349\/album=2268921017\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"padding-right: 16px; padding-left: 5px; float: right; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>&#8220;As well as being warped by the sun and rotted by rain and humidity, many of the buildings in the Quarter sloped markedly as a result of subsidence. This straying from the vertical was complemented by a horizontal drift. The volume of detritus carried south by the Mississippi was such that the river was silting itself up and changing course so that, effectively, the city was moving. Every year the streets moved a fraction of an inch in relation to the river, subtly altering the geography of the town.&#8221; <\/em>\u2014 Geoff Dyer, &#8220;Horizontal Drift&#8221;<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Like the slowly shifting topography of the city of New Orleans, <i>Horizontal Drift<\/i> stretches in two dimensions. The first is in the domain of pitch, where an altered fretboard gives the possibility of quarter-tone gradations. 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