Michael Travis

Travis, Bill Nershi, Michael Kang and Keith Moseley first played together in Crested Butte in 1993 as the Blue String Cheese Band, soon renamed the String Cheese Incident. In 1996 they quit their day jobs and moved to Boulder, added Kyle Hollingsworth on keyboards, and began issuing records on their own SCI Fidelity label, starting with Born on the Wrong Planet. Travis has said he was the member who pushed hardest to keep the shows improvised, and he and Kang took to electronic music at about the same time, steering the band toward the electronic and trance elements of Untying the Not (2003).

He took up guitar and hand drums in the same week, at twenty, and in EOTO he left the drum kit to Hann and played bass, guitar, keyboards and samplers, building each set from live loops with nothing pre-recorded. The duo played its first show at the Sonic Bloom festival in May 2006 and became his main project while the String Cheese Incident was off the road between 2007 and 2009. EOTO announced in July 2021 that it would stop performing, a decision it said did not affect the String Cheese Incident, in which both men still played.