Ori Drumer
Binya Reches
Amnon Wolman
Sala-Manca
Uri Frost
Adam Scheflan
Kostya Gervis
Eran Sach
Ohad Fishof
Born in Jerusalem in 1970, Ohad Fishof is an artist and musician, working in a diverse range of fields, including sound, dance, video, performance and writing.
As a musician, Fishof began his artistic career in the mid Eighties as the leader of the experimental pop band The Top Hat Carriers. He later moved on to compose for dance, performance and art installations while at the same time expanding his artistic endeavor to other media. In the early Nineties Fishof relocated to London. In 1997 he received an MA in choreography from Laban Centre London (where he later became a visiting lecturer). Since then, his dance and performance works - as well as his sound installations - were performed and presented in England, Japan, Lithuania, Holland, Turkey, Switzerland, Israel and at the Venice Biennale in Italy.
Fishof moved back to Israel in 2003 and is currently involved in various ways with The Bat-Sheva Dance Company and Ohad Naharin. He designed the soundtracks for "Shalosh", "Furo" and "Telophase", and worked as a dramaturge for the later. In 2004 he was the musical director and dramaturge of "Playback", a solo evening of music and dance directed and preformed by Ohad Naharin. He is also a teacher of Gaga, Naharin's movement language.
Ori Drumer is the is a member of Rock Group “Duralex-Sedlex”, which he founded in 1983. The group is known for its extreme music as well as for its willingness to address controversial contents such as the Holocaust or Zionism. He wrote and produced albums and video cassettes for them. Published several books, among them ,“Golden Wheel Chair” (1991) and “Skin”, whose stage interpretation won him the first prize in Acco festival for theater 2002. In 2001 he won honorary mention in Acco for his music for the award winning play “Discovering Elijah”. Wrote for magazine “Studio” on violent films and virtual reality.
Binya Reches
Musician and sound-artist. Composed and released several albums under different titles ("Die-welt", "Taapet"). He composes music for films, video-art, and performance. his sound installations were exhibited in art and performance spaces in Israel, Germany, Turkey and Italy.
Musician and sound-artist. Composed and released several albums under different titles ("Die-welt", "Taapet"). He composes music for films, video-art, and performance. his sound installations were exhibited in art and performance spaces in Israel, Germany, Turkey and Italy.
Amnon Wolman is a sound artist and composer who works in varied styles and with diversified forces of musicians, whose work is grounded in an essential interest in experimentation. His interest in technology and in issues of time guided him, in recent years, towards gallery sound installations, to manipulating the spatial placement of speakers and using them as musical instruments, to a different interaction between live performers and the technology, and collaborations with performers in the creation of the piece as equal partners.
He is the Director of the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College, anda professor of composition at the Conservatory of Music their and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. While on leave (2006-2008) he will be teaching at Tel Aviv University. Previously he taught at Northwestern University, Tel Aviv University, Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He lives with his partner Eyal Levinson, their son Levi, and their animals between Brooklyn NY and Israel.
Sala-manca is a group of independent Jerusalem-based artists that creates in different fields: performance, video, installation & new media since 2000. Sala-manca's works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts and with the tensions between low tech and high tech aesthetics, as well as social and political issues. The group publishes Hearat Shulaym Art Journal, produces and curates Heara Art Events, organized in an independent way with no commercial or official sponsors, co-edits no-org.net , a platform for experimental projects in the area of netbased and digital art, organizes and curates The Upgrade! Tel Aviv, gatherings hold by new media artists, curators and media activists, and The New Media Cheyder (Studyroom).
Sala-Manca are Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman. Selected presentations/ exhibitions/projects: New York University, Observatori Festival - Valencia, Eyebeam - NY, Blurrr Performance Biennal- Tel Aviv, Science Museum- Jerusalem, Transmediale- Berlin, Jerusalem Film Festival - Jerusalem, La Fabrica - Buenos Aires, Digital Art Center - Holon and NOMAD under.ctl project, Forum Stadtpark, Graz.
Uri Frost is a musician and a director, who is a singular voice in the Israeli rock scene. His unique style of relentless, feedback laden, powerful playing has been his signature much more than songwriting. Was a member of the bands “The Pliz”, “Carmella, Gross and Wagner” (with Eran Zur), “Rir” (with Ran Slavin and Adam Horowitz), “Rer”, “Katamine” and “fmily Butchers”, among others.
Recently has participated and has produced “Katamine”s second album, produced by Warton Tears of Sonic Youthand Dinosaur Jr.) fame.
Frost has directed a number of short films, including “Nature Boy” and “Blocked”, and has collaborated with dance Tamar Borer.
Adam Meiri Scheflan was born in Atlanta in 1979 and immigrated to Israel in 1983.He is a prolific composer, producer and arranger who also plays guitar, bass, double bass, glockenspiel and steel-pedal guitar, and basically everything you shove into his hands. He started learning the piano at 6 years old and guitar at 11. He is a gifted sensitive musician who collaborates with many musicians such as Beri Sacharoff, Efrat Ben-Zur, Arik Einstein, Harold Rubin, Eran Sachs, Dror Feiler, Uri Frost, Quami de-la Fox, Dikla, Rona Keinan, David Broza, Shlomi Shaban, Dannie Zamir, Aviv Geffen, Monica Sex and plenty others. He is a member of the groups “Itliz” and “The Girls” and in “Giv’ol” choir.
Gervis is the leading figure behind the collective of artists known through the label Zvukoprocessor. Coming mainly from a Jewish Russian origin, this is a group of artists who are dedicated experimentation with sound. Gervis is a member of the group SEVENTEEN MIGS OF SPRING, whose music is a mixture of different, often conflicting cultural, philosophic and music influences. It is hard to categorize and label. It is very different from release to release and every live appearance is unique and never to be repeated performance. Always evolving.
Lives in Jerusalem works as composer, improviser, sound-artist and curator in Israel and Europe. As an improviser Sachs has collaborated with Oren Ambarchi, Thomas Koener, Marc Behrens, Achim Wollscheid and others, mainly playing his self-developed system, the No-Input-Mixer, which he has been playing since 1998. He plays this machine regularly in the Doom-Dub-Noise outfit Lietterschpich and John Zorn's "Cobra" improvising ensemble in Israel. He has presented his works and compositions in such festivals as Sonorities, Transmediale, Theaterformen, Sonic Process, Jewish Festival in Krakow, Neuro and Ultrasound Israel, as well as spaces and platforms such as Podewil/Tesla, Kulturbunker, Muffathalle, Haus Kulturen der Welt (Gremany), Sonic Square, RecycleArt (Belgium) Melkweg (Holland), SARC (N.Ireland) Israeli Cinemateque, Heara (Israel) and many others.
His work "Studio" with sculptor Eytan Ronel was awarded the Excellence Award by the NY International Fringe Festival. His works have been released on Mille Plateaux and various labels in Israel. As a sound-artist his works tend fuse the sonic with the political, as in the case of "Yannun Yannun", which portrays the harrasment of Palestinian villagers by fanatic settlers. He founded and managed the Yad-Vashem bookstore - the only holocaust dedicated bookstore in Israel.
