One Cello X 16: Natoma
Cellist and composer ZoÃ« 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"Alluring" - Toronto Eye"the musical lovechild of Kate Bush and Steve Reich" - 7x7 Magazine ZoÃ«'s self-released debut album "One Cello x 16: Natoma" was the number 2  album in iTunes Classical and number 3 in Electronica in May and June of  2006. She composed the music for "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 ZoÃ« has recorded and performed with 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.From 2002 to 2006, ZoÃ« 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).