“When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.” MenKindPlayKnownSignaturesDuration Author:Z'EV
“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 to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.” NeedsI CanPlayUsedLosesLevelsFiveMinutesTenTwentiesTrackClockGood Sense Author:Z'EV
“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.” LittlesDifferentStuffSoundTypeInstrumentsBellsToysHere And ThereCollecting Author:Z'EV
“I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.” MadeHardStuffSoundPlayerNeededInstrumentsComplexesBunchPlasticSteelSurplusSynthesizers Author:Z'EV
“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 many as I used to, because you can't get into surplus and scrap yards as easily anymore.” PlayUsedFoundPiecesCuttingYardsSteelScrapSurplusDiscs Author:Z'EV
“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 did the owner get intrigued and let me go around the yard to find stuff. Because the insurance regulations are such that you can't go into the places anymore.” StuffLet MeOwnersRegulationYardsScrapIntriguedSurplusLet Me Go Author:Z'EV
“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 dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.” IfsLooksHardArtistGoneMaterialsLook UpExpensiveMetalsRoofStarvingDictionaryStarving Artist Author:Z'EV
“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 refined set that works well, and I'm pretty much set with that.” NeedsWellsBigsStuffExpensiveRefinedNew StuffBig Stuff Author:Z'EV
“I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore.” KnowsHappeningsNonsenseSlides Author:Ariana Madix