{"id":342739,"date":"2026-09-10T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342739\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:20:09","slug":"music-at-queens-james-holden-the-journal-of-music-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342739\/","title":{"rendered":"Music at Queens: James Holden | The Journal of Music in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Holden is an electronic musician and tinkerer who has worn many hats across his twenty year musical career: producer, remixer, DJ, record label boss, synth maestro, band leader, and now software developer with the launch of his open source project &#8216;benny&#8217;: a &#8220;modular software playground for making live music&#8221; (playbenny.com).<\/p>\n<p>Previously flirting with trance, progressive house, minimal techno, IDM, synth and even jazz, Holden&#8217;s explorations are constantly leading him into new territories as he charts his own haphazard course somewhere between unashamed dilettante and virtuosic polymath.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesholden.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.jamesholden.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Holden: hybrid analogue \/ digital live-patching in benny (computer + modular synth)<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Laura Lewis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Holden is an electronic musician and tinkerer who has worn many hats across his twenty year musical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-342739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}