My music is constructed by layering many tracks of cello.

I have two studio recordings and am currently working on a third.

 

Free downloads:

Legions (War) from One Cello x 16: Natoma

Sun Will Set from One Cello x 16: Natoma

Exurgency from One Cello x 16 (EP)

To perform, the sound of the cello is captured through a combination of microphones and pickups attached to the body of the instrument. I record in real-time using a foot-controlled computer that runs various bits of software.

Video:

interview for Wired Magazine, May 2009:

 

Performance of "Escape Artist" for Wired Magazine, May 2009:

 

Performance of "Lost" at La Boule Noire in Paris, October 2008:

I perform music from One Cello x 16 quite regularly. To hear about upcoming performances, check the performances page, or you can subscribe to my mailing list.

I also use this layered cello technique to compose music for film.

 

directed by Scott Crocker
2008, Small Change Productions Films

A documentary about the "rediscovery" of the ivory-billed woodpecker.

Flying and Flocking from Ghost Bird

The Last Bird from Ghost Bird

Ghost Bird website

 

directed by Max Sacker
2008

 

directed by Adam Mason
2007, Sony Pictures/Renegade Films

A deliciously scary movie for which I composed and recorded an all-cello score. Premiered Sept 12, 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

 

directed by Frauke Sandig and Eric Black
2004, Umbrella Films

Sundance 2005 (Documentary Competition), HotDocs Toronto 2005, Sydney 2005, Nyon 2005 (winner), IDA DocuWeek Los Angeles 2005, Leipzig 2005, Vancouver 2005, Mill Valley 2005, Sheffield 2005

music composed by Zoe Keating, Thomas Mävers & Tony Cross

Other film, tv and multimedia credits:

UK Channel 4 Aged 12 and Looking Ater the Family (2007)

Nearlife (2006)

I Am A Sex Addict (2005)

Oregon (2000)

NYTimes interactive presentation: China: Choking On Growth August 2007

music for KQED TV San Francisco: Spark

Comcast "Buzz" commerical, Dec 2006

Dance and theater credits:

Ballet de Teatres de la Generalitat, Valencia, Spain. Llebeig by Asun Noales, 2008 (music performed and composed by Zoe Keating)

American Repertory Ballet "Danzantes" by Melissa Barak, 2007

Nicholas Andre Dance Theater "Etched", 2007

Digby Dance "Here/Waiting", 2005

Kraft/Purver's

Woods For the Trees, San Francisco Fringe Festival 2003

Recorded with these lovely young lads in July 2007 at a log cabin in Arkansas. Their album "The Sound" will be out soon! Check 'em out.

I've joined Imogen onstage whenever I'm opening for her on tour. She is amazing in just about every way I can think of. Buy her albums and listen to them carefully. I know you will like them.

San Francisco trip-poppers Halou are made up of Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom and Mikael 'Count' Eldridge. Count is a producer with delicate ears and a pretty amazing resume. He is the one who applied all the final production sparkle to my album "One Cello x 16: Natoma".

Whenever I have time, I really enjoy playing with Charles Atlas. A beautiful band of beautiful people who make beautiful music. In 2003, I played the cello on their latest record. Hopefully no one can tell, but I recorded all the cello parts with a broken left index finger (a stress-fracture obtained while recording Frustration Plantation).
Ochre Records
Buy it here

A trio consisting of myself, violinist Tony Cross and percussionist Mark Bernfield. A swirling, improvisatory vortex of sound.

In 2002, I joined Melora Creager's infamous cello-rock sweatshop, Rasputina. I had a lot of fun performing and touring in the band, and I recorded two albums with them: a studio album, Frustration Plantation, released in 2004, and one live album, A Radial Recital, released the summer of 2005. I left Rasputina early in 2006 to focus on my solo efforts.

	A Radical Recital 2005
	Frustration Plantation 2004, Instinct