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| JOAN JEANRENAUD: | And now that I'm starting to get into electronics, and that whole world, you realize there are even more possibilities there. I'm using with my Zeta Electric cello, I'm using a Lexicon guitar processor which is sitting back there, I haven't unpacked it from a gig yet. |
| FRANK J. OTERI: | I'm looking at it... |
| JOAN JEANRENAUD: | It looks good, but you see I put it on a stand but they don't really come this way. This is the first Zeta cello ever made too. |
| FRANK J. OTERI: | Wow! |
| JOAN JEANRENAUD: | Kronos had a set of Zeta instruments made, but we never really used them very much, just in a couple of pieces. There are ensemble problems, you know trying to play exactly together like Kronos does, but now I'm using it and I'm realizing there are a lot of possibilities, and I find that I can do things on my electric cello that I can't do on my acoustic cello, and visa versa. I mean this cello will never get the sound that my acoustic cello does which is really beautiful. |
| FRANK J. OTERI: | Now you also use a pick-up on the acoustic cello too. |
| JOAN JEANRENAUD: | I do, that's true. |
| FRANK J. OTERI: | Which is another whole weird mixed world of sound. |
| JOAN JEANRENAUD: | That's true. So yeah, there are all these combination of things. I'm having this young guy in France, Frederick Coe, who's making me an electro-acoustic cello. And who knows when he'll be finished with it, but I think that's real exciting. He had a prototype that he had made and I was very impressed with it, I liked it a lot, and I felt it was very much in between my solid body and my acoustic. It was also just another possibility and so hopefully we'll finish that within the next six months. |
| FRANK J. OTERI: | Do you ever play a five-string instrument? |
| JOAN JEANRENAUD: | I haven't, but I think that would be a really interesting thing to try. |
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