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continued with that as his primary designation. He moved to Manhattan in the fall of '79. In 1979 I
began to collaborate with Roberta Friedman and Graham Weinbren on The Erl King. Completed in
1984 it was the first Interactive Art work ever produced [2 las er-discs and a touch-sensitive monitor].
In the fall of '80 he began touring Europe for the first time. In 1980 Fetish Records o f London
released Shake Rattle and Roll – a video documentation of a live performance which turned out to
be the first "music video" ever commercially released.
In 1992, Z’EV published RHYTHMAJIK: Practical uses of Number, Rhythm and Sound was published
(by Temple Press UK). Regarding this book Murry Hope the author of The Psychology of Ritual wrote:
"Z’EV presents an original approach to the energies released via the rhythmic process...including the
healing potential of correctly structured rhythms and their possible value as access codes to those
frequencies unbound by the space-time continuum. Dare one suggest that this could be the precursor
of the long forgotten science of sonics which many believe will resurface in the next
millennium?
In '92 he also began collaborations with D.J. DANO (Daniel Leeflang). In 1990 in conjunction with
Konrad Becker we released Trance-Former, which at 150 BMP launched the varieties of House
Music known as Hard Core. Many examples of this House Musics were released as singles and
appeared on several CD compilations in Europe. In 1992 the English music magazine The Wire
included Z’EV’s LP ‘BUST THIS!’ [released in 1988] in its list of the 50 greatest percussion records of
all time. In Nov. 1999 John Zorn again commissio ned Z’EV for his Radical Jewish Music series, a
series of translations; sonic, esoteric, metaphoric and allegoric, of the Sefer Yetzirah [the most
ancient mystical text in the jewish corpus]. Z’EV has performed solo musics in over 80 cities in 19
countries. Between 1977 and the present he’s had 36 releases in all forms of media from books to
cassette tapes to flexi-discs to CDs. (http://rhythmajik.com)
Metaphonics is Z’EV’s latest invention. It’s music created to move it’s listeners into
occult altered states of consciousness.
Metaphonics then, is a specific term for what is now generally referred to as Sacred Musics. That is,
a music whose intent is to alter consciousness or to transpose between states of consciousness
and/or levels of reality/ies. And this would be in contradistinction to secular musics which seek to
entertain. (http://rhythmajik.com/news.html)
Coil’s music as a form of magic
Post Industrial bands like Psychic TV and Coil grew out of the mid 1970’s Industrial
band, Throbbing Gristle. Coil began between 1982 and 1984 co-founded by Peter
Christopherson and John Balance. (http://brainwashed.com) Along with recording with
Coil, Coil band members thrive as remix/producers and music video directors. Coil’s
work is a major focal point in the roots of electronic music as Peter Christopherson
began his work with Throbbing Gristle in the mid-1970‘s. John Balance, a longtime
underworld path worker, has been involved in occult arts since he was 10. Coil’s first
major recording was titled, “How to destroy angels”.
Coil’s hypnotic dance trance or death disco employs specific magical timing and
structures in it’s deep listening technique. Christopherson says, “the music is meant
to affect the head, heart and feet simultaneously. It plays to your desire for pleasure.
Originally, music and tribal rhythms were used for ritual purposes-for the