Music:
Member Since: 2/20/2007
Band Members:
Influences: IF U WANT TO CONTACT Z"EV DO NOT MESSAGE HIM HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USE HIS EMAIL AT [email protected]
1967-70
first began working with Carl Stone [Godfather of Laptop performance]
in a precursor jazz-rock trio [organ, drums and bass (James Stewart)].
we were the house band at The Walrus, a multimedia arts club in Venice CA.
1972
chosen for the SECOND GENERATION show at the Museum of
Conceptual Art in San Francisco. Work at this time was primarily
Sound and Visual poetries.
1976
concentration on acoustic phenomena, developing a wide range
of concussive and percussive instruments, sound scultptures and
assemblages devoted to their productions as the basis for
subsequent solo work.
1978
one of the founders of the so-called Industrial Music/Art
Movement codified in the Industrial Culture Handbook published by
RE/search in 1983.
began touring - performance/installations in
diverse contexts [from Documenta to Amsterdam's Concertgebouw to
NYC's Public Theatre and Mudd Club], currently in over 100 cities
in over 20 countries.
1981
produced Shake, Rattle & Roll VHS, it was the first
'music'/art video, a Fetish Records UK release.
Salts of Heavy Metals EP, a Lust/Unlust NYC release.
production and decay of spatial relations LP, a Backstreet Backlash NL release.
1983-94
resided in Amsterdam, continued touring and releasing over 30 collections of musics on lp's, cassettes and cd's.
1986-90
guest teacher in Composition + Improvisation at the
Theatre School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam.
began working with London performance/spectacle group, The Bow Gamelan.
1990
work with Dutch house musician DJ DANO and Konrad Becker resulted in what
became known as Hard Core / Gabbber [tempos over 150 bpm].
1992
1988 LP, BUST THIS! was chosen by The Wire as one of the 50
best percussion-based records of all time.
my first book
Rhythmajik: practical uses of number, rhythm and sound
was published by Temple Press UK.
1994-2003
retired from artistic endeavors, except for a
collection of 5 translations of the mystical text, The Book of
Formation, entitled The Sapphire Nature, comissioned by John Zorn
for Tzaddik.
July 2003
out of retirement and primarily based in London.
I have been finishing a second book, entitled Heart Beating / Ear
Drumming [mantic animistic musings on metaphors, mythos,
metaphonics and the trance state].
I am also deeply involved in
compositions-in-collaboration/cooperation and LIVE performances with
(among others):
Keiji Haino, Boyd Rice, Stephen O'Malley
Oren Ambarchi, KK.Null & Chris Watson
David Jackman/Organum, Lydia Lunch
Charlemagne Palestine, Joachim Irmler
Anne Bean, Richard Wilson, Joke Lanz
BJ Nilsen, Frans deWaard, Nigel Ayers
Peter Rehberg, Francisco Lopez
David Maranha + Patricia Machas
Ramona Ponzini, Michelle Webb
Ken Hyder and Andy Knight
Andy Bolus, David Linton
Bryan Saunders
BEST INTERVIEW and DISCOgraphy
z'ev interview @ drugie.here.ru (english + russian)
Z'EV Discography
MORE
Audio interview (so with all the uhmms) Chicago 4.19.07
Wikipedia biography [en]
z'ev at Brainwashed [en]
[ halloween 07 - london -Simon Collins]
Sounds Like: ELEMENTALITIES
Record Label: CIP, Cold Spring, Die Stadt, Tzaddik
Type of Label: Indie
