Zoë Keating

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Zoë Keating (born February 2, 1972 in Guelph , Canada ) is an American cellist and composer from San Francisco .

Zoë Keating began playing the cello at the age of eight and attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York . After graduating, she worked as an information architect for library associations and streaming databases.

In her solo recordings, she uses electronic sampling and repetitions of the musical elements in order to obtain a rhythmically continuous musical structure.

From 2002 to 2006 she was a cellist in the rock band Rasputina .

Discography

solo

  • One Cello x 16 (EP) (2004)
  • One Cello x 16: Natoma (2005)
  • Into The Trees (2010)

Soundtracks

On albums by other artists

  • Dionysus - Haiku (1999)
  • Tarentel - The Order of Things (2001)
  • with Rasputina :
    • Frustration Plantation (2004)
    • A Radical Recital (2005)
  • Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer (2008)
  • John Vanderslice - Life and Death of an American Fourtracker (2002)

Web links

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