Pamela Z composed this piece as part of the score for Reveries and Elegies, Mary Armentrout’s site specific performance project – a shifting, wandering, accumulating, de-accumulating installation that explores change, loss, and dislocation.  The track is composed entirely of samples of Armentrout's speaking voice, which Z has layered, stretched, squeezed, and dissected. In the performance, Z's soundtrack was paired with a time-lapse film by Ian Winters layered on a live dance by Mary Armentrout.

Strange

Medical text pp. 57: Age is an aggressive, virtuosic, and remarkably vulnerable piece crafted around the text found in the educational tome Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine Vol. 1 published in 1845. 
The chapter that this piece addresses is on the topic of age and its effects on the body through the multiple stages of life, beginning with nascent burgeoning growth and advancing to eventual unerring onset of decay. This piece manipulates the coherence of text and plays off of humanities want to comprehend speech in voices, often crafting phones and consonants that are similar to speech but contorting them beyond understanding. When juxtaposed with recognizable text and married with a plethora of timbral driven gestures and extended vocal techniques, smooth transitions between nonsense and meaningful text help to drive the piece through continuums of obfuscation and clarity.

Medical Text p.57 - for voice and live electronics

ZULI - Terminal (UIQLP003)

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Format - Double LP / Digital
Release date - November 02nd 2018
Mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering
Design - Dave Gaskarth
Photography - Selim El Sadek
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Kollu l-Joloud — Lyrics by MSYLMA

و من جماجمنا سلما لمجدنا
و لعزة النفس؟ ملحمة آثمة
كل الجلود: سيان اذا اخترقت
هل أتت الساعة ام إقتربت؟
كل الذنوب قد إقترفت
أوراق صمودى قطفت 

و لعلى طريد من عفوك لكنى لا أعجز عن محاسبة نفسي على ما انتهكت
اهلكت نفسى بطغيانى بعقلى بيدى بفمى أبدمى طهرت؟

B3 — Kollu l-Joloud (ft. MSYLMA)

2/1/19
‘Za < /< > zA’ explores the encounter between the human voice and technology, searching for a ‘trans-formative’ real-time composed performance that relies on improvisation and computer-based aleatoric techniques. 
‘Za < /< > zA’, named after the Hebrew word ‘zaza’ which means - “in-movement” (referring to a female), is also an experiment with words, and through this encounter, a new language can be created. 

Text Translation:
Ani Rotza Lazooz (אני רוצה לזוז) = I want to be in movement / Lehe’alem (להיעלם) = to disappear / Lehitkayem (להתקיים) = to exist 
Ani Zaza (אני זזה) = I am in movement

Presented as part of AUDIOSPHERE exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía (ES). Curator: Francisco Lopez

Za < /< > zA

Location : 46.105228 4.384297 
Recording birds waking up on Dawn Chorus Day 2020, from 5:30 to 7am, UTC+1, while participating to the international broadcast of Reveil, created by Soundtent. Reveil is a 24+ hour broadcast following sunrise around the earth on dawn chorus day. 
Be patient, the first bird comes alone, before the concert.

Dawn Chorus - Reveil 2020

Playlist:

id m theft able
"Cold and Sweaty and Cold"
from Teeth Teething
(Maang)

Baby Dodds
"Tom Tom Workout"
from Footnotes to Jazz,Vol.1 Baby Dodds talking and drum solos
(Folkways Records)

Nicolas Gaunin
"Noa Noa"
from Noa Noa
(Artetetra)

Ohad Fishof
"Jungle Johnny"
from Album 1
(Entr'acte)

Ohad Fishof
"One(Freeze)"
(Unreleased)

David Toop
"The Chairs Story"
from New and Rediscovered Instruments"
(Obscure)

Yom Gagatzi
"Strea Medina"
(Unreleased)

Raadraaca Fanka
"Maxaa ani iigu jira"
from Careys Ciise Kaarshe
(taken off Youtube,unknown label)

Etienne 'Doko,David Wa and Martine Sènwan
"Séam ko mè"
from Central Arrica:Sanza Music in the Gbaya
(VDE-GALLO)

The Institute of Ongoing Things
"Under the Ukelele Tree"
(Unreleased)

Ilan Volkov - At Home  14 with Ohad Fishof

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Contradictory Truths

"While the Coronavirous lockdown made many things impossible or infinitely more difficult and painful, it also opened up an unprecedented space to think, to reflect and to work in ways that the usual pressures deny. 

On March 17th David Toop and Lucie Stepankova were due to play in a trio with Yifeat Ziv at Café Oto; then on April 9ththey were also booked to play at Iklectik as a duo. Both gigs were cancelled, of course, because of the virus. In support of Iklectik, Lucie and David agreed to record a track together in the only way possible, by exchanging files and passing mixes back and forth across the aether. The feeling of working on this first track was positive so they decided to make a mini-album. One of the elements from the first track was a reading by Lucie of a passage from Kenya Hara’s book, On White, and this preoccupation with colour became a theme for the whole project. Other tracks were inspired by the writings of Himla af Klint on mystical blue, Hokusai on shades of black, François Jullien on the six colours of Chinese ink and Cees Noteboom on the yellow/orange hue of a ceramic bowl. 

Jullien wrote of a transition from ‘physical concretion to spirit dimension’, according to the dilution of the ink. This is how these tracks felt as they emerged between April and June of extraordinary times. When the album was finished it seemed fitting to offer it to Café Oto in a gesture of support and hopefulness for the future of London’s key venues. 

David Toop and Lucie Stepankova have previously played in duos at Café Oto, Iklectik and at the Jhilava documentary film festival. They have also played in trios with Yifeat Ziv at Hundred Years Gallery, Tania Caroline Chen at Iklectik and John Butcher at Hangar Bicocca, Milan." - David & Lucie

TR061 - David Toop & Avsluta - Blue Ether

Parstronix's Parasol Unit Gallery live improv performance to mark the Navid Nuur solo exhibition, May 2013. Navid Nuur is a Dutch-Iranian artist whose works are based on phenomenological experiences. Performers for this incarnation of Parstronix were Sam Fathi on daf drum, Fari Bradley on Monotron, Armin Firouzabadi on guitar and Roshi Nasehi on voice and keys. Traces of Action: Creation of Acts was a performance supported by Dante Rendle Traynor with his experimental lounge band The Golden Boys. http://www.parasol-unit.org/traces-of-action-creation-of-acts

Parstronix at Parasol Unit with Navid Nuur

Experimental vocalist and sound artist Yifeat Ziv debuts on FP for our 100th release with her glorious exploration of sounding in the Brazilian Amazon. Some words from her text accompanying the release are below:
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"The forest reverberates my voice. The density of the trees and the thick canopy reflects sound waves and creates an echo as if I was singing in a closed space, maybe a chapel. I didn’t expect it. This echo feels like a mirror, it feedbacks my vocal intervention, reflecting traces of my own sound pollution in the Amazon’s dense soundscape." --- Yifeat Ziv
Out on CD/digital.
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Thanks + credits:
The piece was created as a response to my experience in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest as part of the Labverde artist residency in August 2019.
Premiered as part of “Other Creatures, Entities and Faint Beings” event at Cafe OTO London (curated David Toop). 
The album recording is based on a live performance at IKLECTIK London in January 2020, as part of "The Field is Not a Field" event (curated by Mark Peter Wright).
Thank you: AER Art for the Environment programme (University of the Arts London), Labverde 2019 team, scientists & group of artists, David Toop, Marco Tarantino, Guy Fleisher & Yoav Ronat. 

Field recordings, vocals & composition by Yifeat Ziv. 
Mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering.
Cover photo by Hilnando Mendes. 
Design: Kate Carr

Amazonian Traces of Self (excerpt) - Yifeat Ziv out November 17

Vocalist. Composer. Sound Artist.

www.yifeatziv.com

Za < /< > zA

YIFEAT ZIV

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