Z'EV

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Z'EV

THE SOUND ARTIST known as Z'EV beats, scrapes and manipulates large metal objects to create astonishing sonic phenomena. But don't call his work "experimental."

"I'm not a big fan of either experimental or noise music," said Z'EV. "A lot of experimental musicians feel it's totally OK to experiment onstage. As far as I'm concerned, you should experiment at home, but when an audience pays, you should deliver a result."
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"A guy beating a trash can is to Z'EV what Kenny G. is to Coltrane. That is, transparent versus transcendent. A Z'EV performance clearly reveals a master at work — the product of four decades of exploration. It's a sound rooted in jazz and concrete poetry, liberated by punk and industrial and embraced by the fringes of improv and electronica. Yet, "the music I'm playing now is extremely simple and direct," said Z'EV. "People get it immediately. Nothing arty-farty about it at all. No harsh abrasive sounds. It's all totally rich harmonic sounds."

"Z'EV uses an enormous marching band bass drum, a steel box, two long titanium tubes, a large metal ring and a sheet of stainless steel stolen from a tanker truck. All strategically dented to create harmonic overtones.

"It's percussion-based music," Z'EV said, "but the instruments generate acoustic phenomena, so the audience hears sounds they normally associate with electronic music. They'll be wondering where the mics and speakers are. But I don't use any mics or speakers."

And it's not a solo show. "It's a quintet. It's me and three other elements" — the instruments, the physical space and the audience's responsive energy — "that I'm feeling and listening to in the same way as if I was in a band. Change any one of those three, and the music will be different."

Z'EV set this evening will be accompanied by live visuals.

http://www.myspace.com/rhythmajik
http://www.rhythmajik.com/


JAMIE ALLEN

"Jamie Allen is a Canadian artist currently residing in the UK. With circuitMusic, he uses raw op amp components with minimal effects to experiment and revel in the sound of pure, electric signals. Allen's compositions are streamlined, yet remarkably varied with harsh walls of static, dense drones, and playful rhythms all vying for the listener's headspace." (Foxy Digitalis)

http://www.heavyside.net/index.php


SILO PORTEM

Sound and vision duo recently relocated to the North East.
Experimental / Live Electronics / Soundtracks / Film music.
Found sounds and distorted recordings, Electro-acoustic music and sound art, shortwave radio.

Their performance this evening is accompanied with visuals by StudioLAX

http://www.myspace.com/siloportm


STAR & SHADOW CINEMA
7:30pm
£5.00 on the door

http://www.abetternoise.org.uk/