HATI + Z'ev
HATI + Z'ev will perform together at Unsound Festival New York.
HATI is an audiovisual project based on the sound of ethnic instruments from all over the world, as well as hand-made instruments or found objects. HATI forms a link between a personal interest in modern improvised and acoustic music with ritual and meditation. The band was founded in 2001 by Rafal Iwanski and Dariusz Wojtas. Since 2007, HATI have performed as a duo with Rafal X-NAVI Iwanski and Rafal SABON Kolacki, and ocasionally with Dariusz Brzostek. They are also the organizers of Poland's CoCArt Music Festival (in cooperation with the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun).
Their have performed live with the likes of Z’EV (as well as recording a full length album), John Zorn, PURE, Robert Curgenven, WEREJU, Phil Maggi and Patrick Mcginley.
Z’ev is a conceptual artist, sound sculptor, and poet. After studying at CalArts with Concrete poet Emmett Williams he produced visual and sound poetries, and was included in the “Second Generation” show at the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco in 1975. While but one of the progenitors of the ‘industrial movement’ in the mid-70’s, he, along with Neil Megson, was primarily responsible for delivering the ‘tribal’ impulse and esthetic into the Western cultural milieu between the years 1978-1984.
While generally most known as a solo performer, since 2003 he has concentrated on cooperative and collaborative composition and performance, recording and performing with a wide range of artists from Oren Ambarchi to Merzbow, Stephen O’malley, Pita, Chris Watson and John Zorn.
