Zoe Keating
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Tuesday, Nov 28 › 9pm › $5
ZOE KEATING, with ILYAS AHMED with GROUPER, and MUGWORT
Zoë Keating, the experimental cellist who brought such weight to recent recordings from chamber-pop darlings Rasputina, has recently relocated to our fair city and quietly released one of the finest examples of solo neoclassical looping-pedal music of which I am aware. She will elucidate onstage how this bewitching music comes to be; joined by spirit blues crooner Ilyas Ahmed (with Grouper) and electroacoustic ambient gypsy trio Mugwort.
About the artist
Cellist and composer Zoë Keating uses live electronic sampling and repetition to layer the sound of her cello, creating multi-layered compositions which explore the boundary between the familiar and the strange, the ugly and beautiful, the dark and the transcendent. Her music has been featured on NPR's Day to Day, on Public Radio International's Echoes and on the soundtrack to the award-winning documentary "Frozen Angels".
"...combines cello and a looping laptop in a hypnotic cocktail. "— San Francisco Chronicle
Born in Guelph, Ontario, Zoë began her musical education in England and went on to study cello at the Eastman School of Music Preparatory, Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Italy. She moved to San Francisco in the mid-90's, and began a serious exploration of non-classical musical forms, working with modern dance, experimental theater, performance artists and both popular and improvised music. Zoë has recorded and performed with a variety of artists, including Tarentel, Rasputina, Imogen Heap, DJ Shadow, Charles Atlas, John Vanderslice, The Court and Spark, Michael Talbott and the Wolf Kings, Laughingstock, Moe!kestra, Jhno and Dionysos.
Zoë also writes music for film, composing music for the documentary Frozen Angels, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and was best documentary winner at the 2005 Nyon Festival and the 2005 Toronto HotDocs. In 2005 she received an emerging artist award from the San Francisco ArtSFest and an artistic development grant from the Belle Foundation.
In January 2006, Ms. Keating was introduced to British electropop chanteuse Imogen Heap. Instant admirers of each other's music, the two embarked on three back-to-back tours of North America and the United Kingdom, with Zoë both opening for Imogen and accompanying her during her set.
From 2002 to 2006, Zoë was a member of the cello-rock ensemble Rasputina, founded by Nirvana cellist Melora Creager. With Rasputina, she toured the US and Canada countless times, opened for acts like Belle & Sebastian and The Legendary Pink Dots, and recorded two albums (Frustration Plantation, Instinct Records, April 2004; A Radical Recital, May 2005).
Zoë's debut album "One Cello x 16: Natoma" was the number 2 album in iTunes Classical for the last week of May 2006 and number 3 in the Top Electronic Albums list. She is currently working on a new album to be released in late 2006.
Zoë also works as a session cellist and in her spare time she is an information architect.
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