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Quantum Cello

September 5th, 2008 by Alex Mestas

Zoe Keating is a remarkable cellist that uses sampling in order to “play with past versions of herself.” With her Mac laptop, haunting loops of music emerge as she uses her feet to shift, start and stop samples, striking on the instrument itself to create percussive rhythms. In this piece from WNYC’s Radiolab, Keating recalls her discovery of music looping as a device and how it feels to hear the same mistake being repeated over and over.

WNYC - Radiolab - Quantum Cello

I saw Keating live at PopTech last year - symphonic music coming from one musician is transcendent and transposing. You can see the video of her performance here: PopTech Popcast - Zoe Keating

Presenter: Jad Abumrad
Producer: Jad Abumrad
Production Company: WYNC
Listen: [MP3] [Real]

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2 Responses to “Quantum Cello”

  1. Jo Says:
    September 5th, 2008 at 8:28 am

    Yay! I have been listening to this obsessively recently - isn’t it wonderful! In fact I am just about to listen to it again now :)

    Thanks for the PopTech info.

    I like this blog post from Jad about movie music.

  2. Steve Bowbrick Says:
    September 6th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    Gorgeous. Provided the kind of serenity I really needed after a fractious school governor’s meeting yesterday morning.

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