YIFEAT ZIV is a voice-sound artist, a composer, a free improviser and an educator. Her vocal and listening practices are focused on environmental phenomena, more-than-human entities and the materiality and embodiment of sound. In her performances and installations, she combines voice, electronics, field recordings, objects and text to create sound works derived from her research on the human voice, technology, acoustic ecology, and listening practices.
EDUCATION
[] 2018-2019 University of the Arts, London (MA Sound Arts)
[] 2010-2014 The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (BMus in Cross-disciplinary Composition)
PRESS
[] "Vocal Manipulation Adventurer" interview by Mat Smith, Electronic Sound Magazine (2020, English)
[] "The Sad Locust Hunters: In Israel, even the birds know the sound of a siren" show review by Gal Houbara Bergman, Portfolio (2022. Hebrew)
[] "Yifeat Ziv: Sound activates, moreover because it is ungraspable", interview by Joy Bernard, Portfolio Magazine (2022, Hebrew)
[] "Amazonian Traces of Self" album review by Mat Smith, Further (2020, English)
[] "Sounds in a search for a body in a search for sounds" show review by Ouzi Zur, Haaretz (2024, Hebrew)
[] "Amazonian Traces of Self" show review by Avi Pitchon, Haaretz (2021, Hebrew)
[] Recipient of The Oram Award 2020, PRS Foundation
[] Nominated for the Phunorgia Nova Award 2023
yifeat.ziv[at]gmail.com
Instagram: @yifeatz
