Zoe Keating, Quantum Cello

Shivering_Johnny · Shivering_Johnny on Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:51 pm

Been listening to this the past week. Very unique stuff. Hard to believe it's all being rendered by one person with just a cello and a laptop.

From WNYC's Radiolab:

Zoe Keating is the cellist from our live show, War of the Worlds. She used to play with the band Rasputina and now solos and records music for films, such as horror flick, “The Devil’s Chair” (coming out September 30th) and a PBS documentary on Lincoln’s assassination. Her music process reminded us a bit of ours (looping and layering sound) so she and Jad sat down together in San Francisco to talk shop and listen to some unreleased stuff off her new album (as of yet untitled). In this podcast, you’ll hear Jad and Zoe discuss the physics (if not metaphysics) of looping sound and how to use a 17th century instrument to make avant-garde electronic music:

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