The cello. Its body scale proportion fashioned in woods such as ebony, maple and spruce produce a tone which cannot help but move the listener. Cellist Zoe Keating extends the cello aesthetic into the current age of sampling, now. Using a loop sampler, she lays down live plucked and bowed phrases upon which larger compositions evolve. (For an unusual early pre digital sampling example of the possibilities of this idea, look up flutist Paul Horn's recordings in the Taj Mahal, where natural echo of the space allowed Horn to accompany himself.)
Tonight Keating plays an intimate livingroom-style performance at the Mississippi Studios. 3939 N Mississippi http://www.mississippistudios.com 10PM $10