Quantum Cello

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

History, Science, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2008

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jad and cellist Zoe Keating discuss the physics (if not metaphysics) of looping sound and how to use a 17th century instrument to make avant-garde electronic music.

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0:00.0	I should quite.
0:03.2	You're listening to Radio Lab, the podcast.
0:06.0	From New York Public Radio, WNYC, and NPR.
0:14.5	Hey, everyone, Jad here from Radio Lab.
0:16.6	This is Radio Lab, the podcast.
0:18.7	Something a bit different this week.
0:21.0	We're not going to do science, no big ideas today.
0:23.2	Actually, I want to introduce you to an amazing musician.
0:26.9	Can you do like a loop so I can just make sure that that's getting a...
0:33.6	If you happen to catch our War of the World show, this was our live show that we did in Minnesota,
0:39.3	you may have noticed some really beautiful, lush, cello textures threaded all throughout
0:47.3	that hour.
0:48.3	Well, those textures were played live by Miss Zoe Keating, who is right here next to me. Hello.
0:55.1	Hello, Chad.
0:55.7	How are you?
0:56.3	I'm great.
1:00.3	And we're sitting in San Francisco, so this is a bit of an excursion.
1:04.3	But lucky enough, I get to sit here and listen to you play,
1:09.6	because during the performance, there was a point where we actually stopped chatting and you just played for people
1:11.1	and it was amazing people loved it but it was only people in the audience got to hear it so
1:15.8	this gives everybody else a chance to hear it too so maybe you could start by explaining
1:23.7	all of these blinking lights that are near you like you're sitting here with it with a
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