Z'ev has been played on NTS in shows including Kit Records, featured first on 12 July 2013. Songs played include Duo C / Z #1, Duo C / Z #1 and Gimel.

Z'EV (born Stefan Joel Weisser on February 8, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an American poet and musician whose musical interests focus on percussion. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of small yet intrepid record labels. Having worked as a professional musician since 1963, regarded as a pioneer of industrial music, he is now a U.K.-based sound artist.

In 1983, critic Roy Sablosky wrote : “Z’EV doesn’t just break the rules, he changes them.” Journalist Louis Morra wrote in 1983: “Z’EV is a consummate example of contemporary performance art, as well as modern composition and theater.” and, “Z’EV realizes many of modernist art’s ultimate goals: primitivism, improvisation, multi-media/conjunction of art forms, the artist as direct creator.”

His work with text and sound has been influenced by Kabbalah, as well as African, Afro-Caribbean and Indonesian music and culture. He has studied Ewe (Ghana) music, Balinese gamelan, and Indian tala.