Zoe Keating

Post by **Dale** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:24 pm

Look me in the eye and tell me this isn't fabulous:

http://www.poptech.com/popcasts/popcast ... castid=169

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:29 pm

I wish I had an umlaut so I could play the cello.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:09 am

Walden wrote:I wish I had an umlaut so I could play the cello.

What you want is a diaeresis, not an Umlaut. Tremor for a trema, so to speak.

And that, my dear chiffriends, was Bloomfield's most diacritical post ever.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:21 am

O, to be a diaeresis, now that Umlaut's here.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:38 am

you're pretty acute, the lot of you. I'd expect you to be more grave.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:52 am

My cat can circumflex tilde cows come home.

Post by **Dale** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:21 am

You guys are not showing the proper respect for my brand new girlfriend.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:27 am

Dale wrote:You guys are not showing the proper respect for my brand new girlfriend.

Søŗřỷ. Mÿ båd.

Post by **Dale** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:40 am

You'rë totally gëtting on mÿ nërvës.

Dålë

tuaz · Post by **tuaz** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:05 am

Don't a lot of musicians do this? Use computer-tech to layer on-the-spot recorded little loops of music on top of one another. Guitarists, especially.

The only difference is that she's a cellist. But I've watched Didier Lockwood live doing the same on his violin long ago (more jazzy/classical, less New-Agey).

herbivore12 · Post by **herbivore12** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:35 am

tuaz wrote: The only difference is that she's a cellist.

A Canadian-born cellist, mind you. That's apparently important info.

Caroluna · Post by **Caroluna** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:05 am

Wow, that was fabulous.

I didn't know whether to get wrapped up in the sound or try to figure out how she was orchestrating it all.

Looks like she was using a foot controller to start and stop the loops.

This reminded me very much of Imogen Heap's "Just for Now"

I went to track that down....this was part of the Female Vocalist thread this past spring.

Dale wrote:
I've referenced this in another thread, but this is astounding to me:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pSIbfzK2spg

Every sound being produced on the spot.

Post by **Dale** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:22 am

Women who employ live sampling on stage and the men who love them.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:46 am

As my computer is wont to do, it is taking approximately two days to download...I'll let you know what I think on Monday.

Since I can't comment on this cellist, I will, however, tell you about one I saw last night. My daughter and I went to see "There Will Be Blood" (a must see, by the way), and outside the theater was a homeless-looking fellow playing a cello (I say homeless-looking because he must live somewhere--how could he lug that cello around??). His backback was open slightly to show where to deposit your bills. He was nearly toothless, long-haired, ragged, but playing away with gusto, if not great skill. He broke into the Star Spangled Banner while I was in line getting tickets. I smiled at him and got a toothless grin back. Judging from the bills in his backback (mine was added to the bundle), he does fairly well. My daughter says he also plays outside another theather downtown. He was still sawing away after the 2 hr. 45 min. film. Wish Peter Laban had been there to unobstrusively get a beautiful b/w photo.

Susan

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:06 pm

Very interesting. I'm glad she can play with her eyes closed, because she has this one lock of hair that flops around in front of her eyes, and that would absolutely drive me nuts. A different tolerance for flopping hair is evidently but one of the differences between Zöe and më.