Music Composition Blog » Apple User http://musiccompositionblog.com New music one note at a Time Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:37:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Cello + Macbook = Awesome http://musiccompositionblog.com/new-composers/2009/05/cello-macbook-awesome/ http://musiccompositionblog.com/new-composers/2009/05/cello-macbook-awesome/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 14:01:56 +0000 composer http://musiccompositionblog.com/?p=32 Zoe Keating, who combines mad classical cello skills with mad Apple Script skills in order to create hypnotic, layered, musical compositions that sound like a cross between Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet.

Using her MacBook Pro with popular music software Ableton Live and SuperLooper, Keating modifies this potent software combo with some “nasty” Apple Script that allows her to control the looping of live musical phrases with her feet, via MIDI signals from a foot pedal board. That she was an information architect during the dot-com boom should come as little surprise, considering the amount of tech savvy needed to pull off such an elaborate yet elegant setup.

Read the full article:
http://www.macworld.com/article/140421/cellist_fuses_classical_music_and_macbook_with_superb_results.html

also more at wired: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/keating/

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