ps...the world's first looped cello horror film score?

[Zoe Keating <cello@zoekeating.com>]

i just finished...like yesterday, the score to an indie horror movie.  
it was the first time i've gone a feature (i've done bits of  
documentaries and recently some commercials). i took the approach of  
watching the movie and improvising to certain key sections using the  
repeaters, while recording the whole time. then i selected the good  
parts and used those as a foundation for building the score in  
ableton live. i meant to switch back over to logic but i just ended  
up doing the entire 90 minute movie in ableton. the whole thing took  
7 days and i used 2 microphones, one cello, a spoon and a pair of  
chopsticks. i'm actually happy with it (which is an extreme rarity  
for me!!). the whole improvising - looping - recording workflow was  
very seamless and quite satisfying in its immediacy.

there are a lot of f***ed up things about our present day, but  
technologically speaking, it is a great time to be a musician.

who knows how well the movie will do, maybe straight to dvd! it's  
really, really scary and the kind of thing i cannot actually watch.   
but if you can watch horror films its called "The Devil's Chair" and  
is by a UK director named Adam Mason