Zoe Keating

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

http://www.poptech.com/popcasts/popcasts.aspx?lang=&viewcastid=169

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.

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

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

My cat can circumflex tilde cows come home.

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

Søŗřỷ. Mÿ båd.

You’rë totally gëtting on mÿ nërvës.


Dålë

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).

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

Wow, that was fabulous. :boggle: 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’sJust for Now:heart:

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


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

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

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.

Here is my Zoe, er… Zooey:

or this Zoe:

Certainly appears to be Frippertronics re-packaged. (Frippertronics being an Eno thing, of course.) A buddy of mine saw Fripp in a mall near here in the mid-70’s in a solo concert, and my friend said he never saw anyone else, group or solo act, make more sound than Fripp did by himself.

It is very cool, though. She’s better looking than Fripp or Eno.

Trillian