Avant-garde Cellist Zoe Keating

[pdshelton]

I think its funny that they refer to this as "avant garde". Sounds like pop music.

[bvxcvb]

I find it pretentious that she considers herself avant garde when all shes doing is playing a bunch of loops. This is the first search result under "avant garde music" which is disappointing because this is a terrible example of it.

[captianbloodful]

good for you............

[SupernovaKANGAROO]

Doesn't sound very avant-garde to me...

[okturus]

talented....but the intellectual jargon of "information architecture blah blah" obfuscates her artistry rather than enhances it. Just play the instrument love, let it do the talking for you. Give the listener a chance to interpret the music and decide for him/herself "what your music is" or isn't. This way, you won't come across as an elitist or condescend your listeners. No mission-statements, manifestos, disclaimers--JUST PLAY.

[Manuelomar2001]

@okturus There were no mission statements, manifestos, or disclaimers in there. She was just explaining how she writes a song. There was no intellectual jargon, other than the most basic sort of technical terms. I don't think she came across as elitist or condescending at all. Yes, she sounds like she used to be a software engineer, because she was one.

[dovren1]

@okturus Wait, you think she comes off as condescending!!?

[BrandonTourangeau11]

@dovren1 I think just has social issues (the same way some geniuses have troubles talking to people) and therefore her explanation of expression can seem "condescending".

[diediedieu]

this isn't really new....ever heard of minus the bear? they use the exact same technique and use of technology....

[sweatygirl2]

what a dipshit

[ImRandomSara]

What is that 1st song??? I love it!!!

[danimal24585]

"Didn't go as planned" That's because everyone else sucked at the cello compared to her, and I do not consider her avant-garde at all. I consider her extremely talented and creative. I don't think she's pushing the boundaries of the acceptable status quo in the cultural realm...

[shitfacedreprobate]

Anal Cunt is better

[chaoscast]

I think, I watched the most inspiring 3 minutes and 13 seconds of my life!

[utube9000]

I like her playing but she's just a tad too pretentious - informational architecture? Meta-data? Come on honey, you're just hitting a loop pedal with your feet.

[micekingii]

@utube9000 She used to work with that before she became a full-time touring musician... So she's just explaining how she looks at (and thinks about) music. She's extremely unpretentious, I would say.

[utube9000]

Ya, maybe pretentious was the wrong word. More like "over analytical". I can definitely see that she comes from a technology background - when she describes her music, it sounds like she's describing an IT startup.

[Manuelomar2001]

@utube9000 She was describing what goes on in her head when she composes a piece, not what she physically does during the performance.

[jasperanklesighs]

She's like the conan obrien of the cello. Rising up to the sky in a small basket, embracing a fear of heights. Fear sublimated into blue peace.

[galliard1981]

well.... is closer to minimal but not quite that either.... I think that it should be considered as beutifull instrumetal music. But not as avant garde... is very much based to tonic relations and traditional harmony...

[KuraMad2000]

this is avant garde? this sounds too structured and, well good to be avant garde =/

[daviper1]

I believe avant garde refers here to the fact that she is the first cellist to use loops this way live, with this kind of music.

(imo )

[johnartmaster]

I COULD NOT STAND THIS FOR A WHOLE ALBUM TOO MUCH OF THE SAME OVER AND OVER BOREING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[philnoll]

This isn't avante garde

[ogogaiht]

Yeah, nothing new here. She just used information architectural words to describe a few of the most usual musical construction. I can't see or hear any avant-garde in this. find a spot, mark it as your own, construct. Deleuzian loops and rittornellos. That's all I hear.

[mirzaitziar]

12 people are either deaf or don't know what BEAUTIFUL music is....

[bobbywashington]

Zoe, you are an inspiration to me as a fellow artist music. Although Im in a whole different genre of music, I can still appreciate your entrepreneurship, I wish The Urban Market was just as supportive on line as your market.

[silenceisgoldman]

@bobbywashington What are you saying?

[TheFaustianMan]

This really rocks @! 

[shirononeko]

thank you radiolab :)

[heroechild]

she needs 16 cellists? i would run over there

[Johnny123456789x]

<3

[rawfflecakes]

this is beautiful! where can i fond her personal youtube channel?????

[manee1992]

wow! im no raw instrumental music fanatic but the way she approaches her pieces.. she sees music as science.. love that!

[ajpthree]

this is minimalist, not avant garde. she's got a nice sound.

[MsPsycho29]

Not avant garde at all but ok anyway

[juliedog464]

either I don't understand what she's saying..... or this is all about looping with "avant" adjectives ...

[88fuzz]

Sounds really good

[nimuroji]

What is the pickup she is using?

[ajpthree]

@nimuroji looks like an amt mic to me (not a pickup), but I'm not an expert. talk to your local string shop, or check kolstein's site maybe...

[ajpthree]

@nimuroji oh now I notice she does have a little pickup on there attached to the tail piece, but I dk what model that is. def check out string stores online, I'm sure you'll figure out what it is... or she might have it on her website, too.

[TeraMooch]

god I love her music...

by the way she looks like bugs bunny

[GirlsRule430]

really? she looks blind when she plays/ she probally cant go one piece without her eyes even open, and she looks really odd. weeird acent but shes reallly good!

[meyuuu]

Ahh <333 I saw her live!! She is sooo nice!!(: I got a hug form her TwT :D I love her music<3

[Kios1335]

wow beuty music

[Phelan666]

Not sure if this is a chick or a womanly dude.

[martydurlam]

Zoe, you are awesome!

[marklingard9]

simplex sublimis

[marklingard9]

simplex sublimis

[cj10109]

thats pretty cool. could i do that with the guitar?

[SeanSeanSeanCanada]

@cj10109 i make music like this with guitar, except i dont own a real looper, cause their insane expensive (good ones, ones worth getting) so i use delay and everything i play repeats for a certain amount of time

[ZachIsGrasshopper]

@cj10109 Yeah, you could do it with any instrument.

[lisalawliet]

What is the song called at the beginning from 0:07 till 0:15?

[Vitisaurio]

She is amazing and she works with Loops (on Abbleton Live) in a very impressive way. I'm sorry but this is not avant-garde at all. This is minimal Music not much different from Reich, nor Adams.

Though it's very nice.

[YOLIZTLEATLE]

Magnifica!! Una pieza genial.

[ddm8053]

Very nice video. Do your thing girlfriend!

[brenfen]

Avant Garde is French for bullshit.

[hansineffect]

I've been listening to Zoe Keating since I first encountered "Music for 16 Cellos" in 2001. She's an amazing artist. Do yourself a favor and see her perform live.

[connaisons]

maybe if she went back into the classical music world, she could fix her bow hold...and hair.

[PaulMurphyJazzDrum]

Thanks for posting. Keep on playing ! !

[Cantonaahh]

Excellent! Thanks for posting that. I would like to have heard a clown juggling hedgehogs whilst his second cousin peels an onion on top of a giant cigarette packet, but maybe I'm a bit hard to please.

Anyway, if you enjoy watching hamsters balancing onions, you may also enjoy a site called icrappoetry (.com). Best wishes!

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[affectivity]

I don't know what metadata is. But the music is interesting.

[drumboogie66]

Simply Brilliant

[AyashaYumi]

What song is she playing in the beginning?!

[hotmailamir]

nice song!

[rhythmofchains]

do you seriously fucking believe... that the way you make music... is in any way unique. EVERYBODY does that, especially if they have protools or some other mixing crap. your talented, but functionality? Is that seriously the word your going to use to describe what you seek in your music? try soul? im sorry if you cant run it through a midi port

[mothman2]

I like the music but don't find it challenging or unusual enough to say that its avant guard.

[Frankboersig]

I'm in love with this idea and this music. If more people used what we have in the world to make art and music it would be a more functional and better place to live.

[joemuthafuckinschmoe]

nice dreads

[raydn23]

what a bunch of crap. lol.

[oprachik]

why is it a bunch of crap raydn23?

[googlekopfkind]

0:45

[saailaway]

does she have a mustache?

[yourpaljc]

Beautiful & inspiring Zoe!

[Forrester]

I don't understand how this is Avant Garde. She does a pretty good job though.

[masael255]

@Forrester Indeed. Not very avant-garde but very beautiful music.

[oprachik]

its Avant Garde due to its experimental process of making music.

[sitjar]

experimenting doesn't instantly equal "avant garde". I like her music very much but in the end, she's just using a looper in a really straightforward way.

[Stilkk]

@oprachik Exactaly

[MrRefridgeration]

I agree; it seems a little too easy on the ears to be what I'd expect from something labelled 'Avant Garde'

[oprachik]

it doesnt have to be "uneasy" for it to be avant garde.

i think it is avant garde because of its innovative process in the making of the pieces. the performance itself is avant garde, the sound isn't stereotypically avante garde.

'Avant-garde in music can refer to any form of music working within traditional structures while seeking to breach boundaries in some manner.'

[mothman2]

Neither the performance nor her methodology she uses to compose music are in any way new or challenging. When she stated that she creates lots of little pieces of music and then looks for a way to make them into a whole instantly reminded me of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. He used this technique in the sixties to produce Good Vibrations and many records.

[rhythmofchains]

sorry bro... meant to give u the thumbs up!!!

[kmlan1]

@mothman2 gahh i'm so sorry. apparently i voted you down by accident. i wasn't even trying to vote, just trying to scroll

[Drillogik]

Amazing, awe inspiring music, thank you Zoe

[darkhearth]

I loved your video. I'm a programmer too and well... I'm not a musician but I do enjoy playing some instruments. Your idea sounds marvelous and I will try to write something with your method as soon as possible =D.

Keep up your beautiful work.

[terribletimez]

Ditto that ditto that ditto.

[bbv1194]

I remember when she was with Rasputina.

[dawnredskye]

thats why she looked familiar!

Thank you

[BleedingAnus]

I've heard better music squeeze out my asshole. Piecing songs together piece by piece doesn't make you a technophle, it's something that all musicians have done since the beginning of music.

[RavenWolffen]

Ditto that ditto :)

[digital1970]

Thanks to Felicia Day for tuning me on to this. Awesome musician.

[flutetrinity]

Ditto that!

[terryonthego]

Zoe Keating is brilliant. She composes and plays beautifully. I've seen her in concert, and it's ALL about the music. She plays with passion & conviction. I wasn't the only one that got emotional during her concert... & if she can bring tears to peoples' eyes, and FEEL something, then I'd say that was pretty deep.

I think she was generous in sharing her process. Problem solving methods can cross over into all sorts of creative projects. It's Wired who want's the technology angle discussed.

[VeraFX]

Its deep, good info. I'm glad you created this style.

[pishdad]

Well you can talk about stuff all you want and dress up your craft in all kinds of words, nic-nacs. In the end your still left with sound- hopefully something original. I've seen artist talk up a storm about their art but in the end you look at the art and it's just some paint on canvas- nothing as 'original' as the words used to describe it! Ha, ha! Anyway, this sound doesn't even scratch the surface of music. Great art is deep I know it when I hear, see it.This isn't deep at all!

[YUMMYngbird]

that's one very unpleasant voice listening to.

[squeens187]

I saw your comment before the video started, and thought she was going to start singing... then i realized that it's her talking voice that's gross.

[spartan2600]

I love cello, and she plays extremely well, but when I think of avant garde music, I think of people hitting lamps with cello bows, throwing frogs, and randomly chirping and hooting.

[Curetiamhices]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAha

[mushr00mhelmet]

@spartan2600

Or disregard of musical thoery...none really here.

[LaLiLuLeLo1991]

@spartan2600 Ever listened to Naked City?

[JumpShotDude]

@spartan2600 avant is not just that. it's music that is actually considered an art by all music conservatories, unlike the pop music of today

[spartan2600]

@JumpShotDude Pop music isn't art? I think Duchamp would have something to say about that.

[rockster07]

@spartan2600 As far as pop music goes, I would say it IS an art, although not an art of music. Yes, it requires some understanding of music, but to a very basic extent. It's more an art of salesmanship and the ability to get people to buy it.

[ogogaiht]

@spartan2600 I think Duchamp is dead and buried. the idea of 50's avant-garde on 2011 makes no sense at all to me.

[Demoras]

@spartan2600 Indeed. This doesn't really sound like the avant-garde I know. I mean, it actually sounds like music.

[mattwatchesvids]

@spartan2600 that's not at all what avant garde is. the word avant-garde comes from the french word for vanguard, which is someone on the frontline. avant garde music is on the front line, the cutting edge, ahead of everything in its time. I mean, sure those things can be considered avant garde but I don't really think that's in any ind of music. That's just examples of people trying too hard.

[StrawberryJungle]

@mattwatchesvids I don't believe looping is avant garde. It's used too commonly to be considered avant garde anymore.

[hartuki]

Does anyone know the title of the song she plays at the very beginning? She is amazing, I am completely hooked.

[EASTANAHAMBE]

This artist is one of my heroes!

[megadethrulez]

some parts sound like the master of puppets solo

still cool, but that shit was almost note for note in a different key

[hikarusweety]

I wish I could play the cello like her. Miss Keating is brilliant!

[Lovecraft688]

Oh my...please have my children !

[BeondaPale]

Where can I find a girl with a mind like this?

Same general idea as Robert Fripp and fripatronics in the 70's

[Wamuigi]

oo you can find them anywhere in the world. i have a friend who's just like that! the problem is that they are rare :/

[thefeebleboosh]

lovely

[LoveandEqualityToAll]

Macbook Pro.

[fishy7fishy]

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!! you are so cool, I wish I wouldnt have stopped playing I really loved it

[asilayloathing]

Carrot Top's Sister Is More Talented Than Him!

[LJ080805]

lol's

[foodaggression]

awesome!

[SearchFindNowMine]

Neato. I would enjoy hearing full pieces. Links?

[exodus2142]

the band rasputina

[precociouspariah]

Very cool

[gabrielk310]

thats really great