{"id":11,"date":"2025-01-26T04:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T04:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:37:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Crossing Machine was born in 2018!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Primarily a string quartet, it will expand, twist, or bend, depending on the project at hand.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Pop, rock, jazz is what they seek.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-50\" src=\"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Logo-idea3-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"Old CM logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Logo-idea3-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Logo-idea3.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Founded by Marianne Rothschild in 2018, <em><i>The Crossing Machine<\/i><\/em> is an experienced Melbourne based string quartet, bringing together some of the most in-demand string players in the country. Collectively, they have worked with Alice Cooper, Robbie Williams, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Jimmy Barnes, Peter Frampton, Il Divo, Barry Humphries, Billy Thorpe, Silvie Paladino, Guy Sebastian, Kate Ceberano, Anthony Callea, Il Divo, Circus Oz, and Sri Lankan bands DADDY and BNS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-62\" src=\"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MRandAC.jpg\" alt=\"Marianne and Anthony Callea\" width=\"400\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MRandAC.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MRandAC-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><i>The Crossing Machine<\/i><\/em>\u00a0specializes in studio recordings including backing tracks, movie scores, classical, jazz, pop and rock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Contact <a href=\"mailto:violinmaz@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marianne<\/a><u><\/u> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-368 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Updated-CMach-players-2025-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Crossing Machine players\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Updated-CMach-players-2025-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Updated-CMach-players-2025.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crossing Machine was born in 2018! Primarily a string quartet, it will expand, twist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecrossingmachine.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}