When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing. — Z'EV Copy Share Image
I don't want to see an experiment. Experiment at home - when you show up on stage, I want to see a result. I… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man. — Z'EV Copy Share Image
I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
A lot of the people that I play with are electronic-based, so there isn't a direct physical analogue between what they're doing and the… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
I don't really need new stuff anyway. I like to make big stuff, and it's too expensive to travel with. So I have my… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
You have to be loose enough so that when you listen to what's coming, you can follow it. In that sense I am improvising,… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
In L.A., I called every scrap yard and surplus place that was listed, about 50 or 60 places, and only at one of them… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little sound toys. — Z'EV Copy Share Image
Some of the stainless steel discs that I play, I cut myself from pieces of stainless steel that I found. I don't make as… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists. — Z'EV Copy Share Image
