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

["Michael Plishka" <mike@michaelplishka.com>]

Congrats Zoe!!

Plish


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zoe Keating" <cello@zoekeating.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: ps...the world's first looped cello horror film score?


>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
> 
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