Zoe Keating Performs at ETech 2009

One of the many high­lights of the Emerg­ing Tech­nol­ogy con­fer­ence was the Wednes­day evening per­for­mance of Zoe Keat­ing: “Using a 17th Cen­tury Instru­ment to Cre­ate the Music of the 21st Century.”

Zoe uses a cello and a lap­top to make beau­ti­ful mul­ti­lay­ered music. She plays with her­self.  It’s loopy.  Very cool.

Excuse the rough cam­era work up front – it was shot on a tiny Flip cam­era – and it gets much bet­ter a cou­ple min­utes in when I get to the closeups.

Link:  http://www.zoekeating.com/

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Discussion

  • Jim H

    4:13 pm
    Mar-14-2009
    Reply

    This is great! Eveery­thing I like about “clas­si­cal” music. When I zone out on my guitar/banjo my wife says I am “play­ing with myself”, too. And it feels almost as good, some­times better.

  • Jim H

    4:16 pm
    Mar-14-2009
    Reply

    Brian, if you recorded this your­self on a flip cam­era, I can’t imag­ine how good it was in real time. Can’t stop watch­ing it. Thank you!

  • Jim H

    4:21 pm
    Mar-14-2009
    Reply

    I have a sud­den urge to go play my 12 string for an hour or so.

  • Suzanne Axtell

    9:28 am
    Mar-16-2009
    Reply

    Thanks for post­ing this video! Nicely done. I agree, her per­for­mance really was one of the high­lights of the show. The mashup with the laser imagery added another, unex­pected layer to the expe­ri­ence.
    Suzanne, O’Reilly Con­fer­ences team

Comment on This