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Z'EV (legendary percussion sound-artist), Sikhara, Violet
Thursday May 24, 2007 at 9:00pm
Warehouse Next Door
1021 7th St
Washington, D.C., District of Columbia Get Directions
After studying at CalArts with Concrete poet Emmett Williams, he produced works using the name S. Weisser, primarily concentrating on 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). It was at this time that he began performing using the name Z'EV.

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 in Western terms, because of the dense elemental acoustic phenomena these instruments produce. In point of fact, Z'EV doesn't actually consider the results as "music" per se, but more as orchestrations of highly rhythmic acoustic phenomena.

His work with both text and sound has been influenced by the Middle Eastern mystical system best known as Kabbalah (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 recordings have been released by labels such as CIP, Cold Spring, Die Stadt, Soleilmoon, Tzadik Records, Subterranean and Touch Records.

Z'EV
http://www.myspace.com/rhythmajik
Sikhara
http://www.myspace.com/sikhara
Violet
http://myspace.com/microk7
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