Avant-garde Cellist Zoe Keating

Avant-garde cellist Zoe Keating demonstrates her intricately layered compositions. Using a computer, some 'janky code', a cello and her imagination, the classically trained musician shapes her music into something wonderful.

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Music

Tags:

• cello
• zoe keating
• looping
• ableton live
• super looper
• avant cello
• avant gard cello
• wired

[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.

[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.

[pdshelton]

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

[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".

[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...

[dovren1]

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

[Manuelomar2001]

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

[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.

[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.