Information AboutZ'ev |
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HISTORY After studying at CalArts with Concrete Poet Emmett Williams, Z'ev worked as "S. Weisser", producing Visual and Sound Poetries. In 1969 he was included in the Second Generation show at the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco. Beginning in the early 1970s , he developed a personal technique utilizing self-developed instruments formed from industrial materials such as stainless steel, Titanium , and PVC plastics. Initially these instruments were assemblages of these materials with a movement based performance style that was a form of marionette (although with the performer visible). In 1981 'Shake Rattle & Roll', a VHS video documenting his first performance on the East Coast (produced by video artist John Childs), was released by Fetish Records in the UK and was the first ‘music’/art video to be commercially released. Since 1984 he has been concentrating on performing in a more traditional mallet-percussion style. Both performance modes have been described as cacophonous, when considered as music in Western terms, because of the dense elemental acoustic phenomena these instruments produce. His work with both text and sound has been influenced by the middle eastern mystical system best known as Kaballah (although not of the jewish variety), as well as, but not limited to, African, Afro-Caribbean and Indonesian rhythms, musics and cultures. He has studied Ewe (Ghana) Music and Balinese Gamelan , and Indian Tala . His CDs have been released by labels such as Soleilmoon or Touch Records . EXTERNAL LINKS
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