Styles: modern classical / folk / post-rock
Brent Arnold is a cellist and composer with a wildly unorthodox approach, using amplification, guitar-like fingerpicking, electronics, and elements of Arabic, Persian, and African music.
He composed the cello music for Louis C.K.'s tv show Louie, and several films and shorts.
He has worked with Reggie Watts, Kristin Hersh, DJ/Rupture, Eyvind Kang, Modest Mouse, Jherek Bischoff, Dave Malloy, Amanda Palmer, Death in Vegas, Bridget Everett, Wayne Horvitz, Simone White, Sleater-Kinney, and Filastine, among many others.
Brent studied the cello with Walter Gray of the Kronos Quartet and legendary jazz violinist Michael White. He resides in Brooklyn, NY
