One highlight of sxsw was getting to meet and even play with other cello rockers. Break of Reality is a very heavy cello rock band from New York that are kind of like our east coast counterparts.  Zoe Keating is a Bay Area cellist who used to play in a band called Rasputina as well as many other really sweet groups and now has a solo looping project under her own name. She also has a ridiculous number of twitter followers. We all got together for a collaboration outside of the Austin Convention Center, which was very fun. First we played an arrangement of the funeral march from Beethoven 7 for 5 cellos that Zoe put together (Anton played a cello part). Then we traded off playing and improvising on each others music, and to finish we did a couple of completely improvised jams. Good times. Check out those bands here:

www.breakofreality.com
www.zoekeating.com
something else with the Beethoven:

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