Tim O’Keefe is a Brooklyn based creative known for his scoring & audio art work having scored a variety of feature films, documentaries, film installations, and branded content.  Highlights include State of Surveillance (VICE on HBO), Raw Craft with Anthony Bourdain, Tales of Our Times (Guggenheim Museum), and Ai Weiwei Introduces “Turn It On_ China on Film”.  His agency work includes scoring spots for Ferrari, Gucci, Nike, and NARS.  Films he has scored have premiered at Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Gagosian Gallery, PACE Gallery, MoMA, and MOCA.

In addition to his scoring work, Tim has written & produced music with a diverse range of artists including founding member of Cluster and electronic music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius, famed Motown music icon Smokey Robinson, and bassist Andy Rourke of the UK’s legendary band The Smiths. Tim is also an adjunct professor at New York University’s Integrated Design & Media and Music Technology programs, teaching a graduate level course on digital media art installation and a course on live electronic music performance.

Tim is the founder of Freedom Beat, a social justice organization focused on the role of music in global nonviolent civil resistance movements.  He produced over 30 short form documentaries highlighting significant international music artists and the movements they are associated with.  As a producer, he would research social justice movements, artists connected to their cause, recruit local production teams & academic experts, and coordinate each film's production. His interest in nonviolent civil resistance led him to be invited to participate in the Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.  His films have been screened at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., and at Sweden's Urban Voices Festival. Bringing together his interest in politics, policy, storytelling, and audio, Tim has worked as a producer & sound designer on a variety of podasts including The United States Institute of Peace & Burning Man Project’s Culturally Attuned podcast series and Revolution 1: The Story of The Tunisian Uprising.

Tim's creative interests span many mediums including music, sound, podcast, film, and code-based interactive art.  He is particularly interested in social impact driven projects at the intersection of art, politics, and technology.  He received his MFA in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design in 2012.  He was the film editor of a number of music videos that premiered in Rolling Stone, VICE, Interview Magazine, and Paper Magazine including REM's That Someone Is You and for his past side music + film project, Daddy - Let Me Get What I Want.

For further listening, check out Tim’s Soundcloud

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Composer and Sound Designer | Exhibition and Film

2022 Algae Chorus with Yan Shao This Is Not A Drill Exhibition at NYU Bobst Library

2017 Ai Weiwei Introduces Turn It On: China on Film Guggenheim Museum

2017 Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World Guggenheim Museum

2017 High School Lover A&E Network

2016 State of Surveillance VICE/HBO

2016 Tales of Our Time Guggenheim Museum

2015 Right to Die VICE/HBO

2014 The Sound and the Fury Venice Film Festival

2013 Psycho Nacirema Pace Gallery

2013 As I Lay Dying Festival de Cannes

2011 Ruscha The Museum of Contemporary Art

2011 Western The Museum of Contemporary Art

2011 Memories of Idaho Toronto International Film Festival

2011 Endless Idaho by Gus Van Sant and James Franco Gagosian Gallery

2011 Three's Company: The Drama Sundance Film Festival

Composer and Sound Designer for Podcast

2021 Revolution 1: The Story of The Tunisian Uprising

2021 Culturally Attuned: A USIP & Burning Man Project Podcast

2019 Behind The Pages The Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE)

Composer and Sound Designer for Performance

2017 Perv Collective with Ayakamay Lodge Gallery

2016 Cinema Diaconate as Daddy Sundance Film Festival

2015 Celebration with Ayakamay Ideal Glass

2011 Collage with James Franco NYU

2008 Punkplay by Gregory Moss Brown Trinity Consortium

2008 What Once We Felt by Ann Marie Healy Brown Trinity Consortium

2008 Some of the Rooms by Chen Gu Brown Trinity Consortium

2008 Diagram of a Kidnapping by Brendan Pelsue Brown Trinity Consortium

2008 Bad Money by Meg Miroshnik Brown Trinity Consortium

2008 Inked Baby by Christina Anderson Brown Trinity Consortium

2006 Falling Up by Trista Baldwin Perishable Theatre

2006 Gotham is Safe Again by Laura Jacqmin Perishable Theatre

2006 Line by Molly Rice Perishable Theatre

2005 Phenomena of Paragon by Nathan Andary Dance Complex

2004 Tales From Hollywood by Mark Kemball Columbus Theater

2003 Post Photo by Deborah Butler Artbeat Festival

2002 Static by Ellen Godena Berwick Research Institute

2002 The Techno Ballerina by Karelle Levy Miami Light Project

2002 Weightless by Christine Evans Brown Trinity Consortium

1999 Memory of Surfaces by Ernesto Pujol RISD Museum

1999 Migrations by Heather Henson Hear Theatre

1999 Migrations by Heather Henson Perishable Theatre

Composer and Sound Designer for Games

2007 GMTS (GeoCommander) Whatif Productions

2001 Frequency Harmonix Music Systems

Exhibitions

2012 Portal One Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum

2012 Dueling Frequencies Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD

2011 Breaking Out Pixilerations Festival

Releases

2017 Daddy - Let Me Get What I Want (Remixes)

2016 Daddy - Let Me Get What I Want

2010 <tfo> - Grand Strategy I

2009 Bloodless Coup - Regime Change

2006 <tfo> - Surface_Sounds

2003 Future Music Magazine CD Compilation (Spain)

2003 Future Music Magazine CD Compilation (UK)