Z’EV
// author, musician & mysticZ’EV is an author, musician, mystic, percussionist, poet, and scholar now living in London, England. His book “Rhythmajik: Practical Uses Of Rhythm, Sound And Number” (1992) was available from Temple Press, and “Heart Beating / Ear Drumming: Mantic Animistic Musings On Metaphors, Mythos, Metaphonics And The Trance State” (2008) is still to be released. An e-book edition of “Rhythmajik” (2001) revised and updated is freely available from Z’EV via e-mail: rhythmajik[@]yahoo.com. His recording “The Sapphire Nature” (2002), and Oren Ambarchi and Z’EV’s “Spirit Transform Me” (2008) are both available from Tzadik Records. Z’EV is known for his audio poetics, solo percussion, and voice manipulation projects.
Website: www.rhythmajik.com
Photo: Jack Gould Photography
Interview:
First, a definition of terms: “Spiritual” from Webster’s online: 1: of, relating to, consisting of, or affecting the spirit 2a: of or relating to sacred matters 5a: of or relating to supernatural beings or phenomena
“Spiritual” from Compact Oxford online: relating to or affecting the human spirit as opposed to material or physical things.
“Significance” from Webster’s online: 1a: something that is conveyed as a meaning often obscurely or indirectly 1b: the quality of conveying or implying
“Significance” from Compact Oxford online: 1: the unstated meaning to be found in words or events
Secondly, a consideration:
Regarding music, I think it would follow along the line of the quote about beauty, i.e. the significance would lie in the ear of the beholder.
For myself, I am actually more interested in the affective qualities of sound coexistant in the phenomenologies of the elemental and biological realms, than in anything to do with the first-world concept of music. For this is at the basis of any-world’s “music” to effect the listener, and the affect of which can be interpreted by the listener as being on their emotional, intellectual, physical, or spiritual state.
Thirdly, a note: I think at this point in time it’s a bit facile to say: “music” uplifts or transcends.
“Regarding music… the significance would lie in the ear of the beholder.”
– Z’EV, author of “Rhythmajik: Practical Uses Of Rhythm, Sound And Number”
