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The gentle lunacy continued in Four Roses for cello and sampler (1997), a study in harmonics as the cello's "A" string was tuned "80 cents flat," just enough to throw off odd overtones as the instrument interacts with a prepared piano, tuned to a scale with 32 notes per octave (normally twelve).

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

The gentle lunacy continued in Four Roses for cello and sampler (1997), a study in harmonics as the cello's "A" string was tuned "80 cents flat," just enough to throw off odd overtones as the instrument interacts with a prepared piano, tuned to a scale with 32 notes per octave (normally twelve).

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

The gentle lunacy continued in Four Roses for cello and sampler (1997), a study in harmonics as the cello's "A" string was tuned "80 cents flat," just enough to throw off odd overtones as the instrument interacts with a prepared piano, tuned to a scale with 32 notes per octave (normally twelve).

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

The duo's music moves and warms us through its unique blend of the cello's sonority and the kora's harp-like ringing tones.

Warm Up to a Meeting of Two Classical Minds Jim Fusilli 2011

The gentle lunacy continued in Four Roses for cello and sampler (1997), a study in harmonics as the cello's "A" string was tuned "80 cents flat," just enough to throw off odd overtones as the instrument interacts with a prepared piano, tuned to a scale with 32 notes per octave (normally twelve).

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

The gentle lunacy continued in Four Roses for cello and sampler (1997), a study in harmonics as the cello's "A" string was tuned "80 cents flat," just enough to throw off odd overtones as the instrument interacts with a prepared piano, tuned to a scale with 32 notes per octave (normally twelve).

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

The gentle lunacy continued in Four Roses for cello and sampler (1997), a study in harmonics as the cello's "A" string was tuned "80 cents flat," just enough to throw off odd overtones as the instrument interacts with a prepared piano, tuned to a scale with 32 notes per octave (normally twelve).

Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

On "'Ma-Ma' FC," he solos in the cello's upper register before Mr. Sissoko steps in; for a while, the cello, kora and bolon all lock in, as if each were waiting for another member of the group to seize the moment.

Warm Up to a Meeting of Two Classical Minds Jim Fusilli 2011

Yet despite the cello's limited repertory compared with that of the piano and the violin, Mr. Ma's interpretations of the classics remain vibrant, something he attributes, paradoxically, to their familiarity.

The Ever-Curious Cellist 2010

Yet the overall harmonies flow so expressively because the little deviations — the viola's minor ninths giving way to the first violin's major ninths, the cello's extroverted cadenza versus the first violin's equally dazzling, but inward one — the little differences seem to be always on the verge of coming together.

Magna Carter (6): This Is Your Life Matthew Guerrieri 2008