Yair Elazar Glotman

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Yair Elazar Glotman (born 1987) is a composer and musician based in Berlin.

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He releases his own music and composes film scores, [1] most recently Netflix's "Reptile" , A24's "False Positive" (co-composed with Lucy Railton) and Johann Johannsson’s film Last and First Men [2] (co-composed with Jóhann Jóhannsson). [3] In addition, he collaborates and contributes double bass recordings for other composers, including Hildur Guðnadóttir, [4] [5] Ben Frost and Geoff Barrow. His musical output within these various mediums and collaborations is strongly anchored in his training as an orchestral double bass player and in electroacoustic composition. His practice employs a range of improvisation, extended double bass techniques, and a special interest in textural, spatial and spectral compositions and combining analog and digital processing. [6]

Early life

Glotman studied orchestral double bass [7] at the Berlin University of the Arts [8] under Prof. Michael Wolf. He later expanded his studies to include electroacoustic composition as well as media and sound art under Prof. Dr. phil. Alberto de Campo. He completed his Meisterschule degree in 2015

Musical career

In recent years, Glotman has been increasingly composing for film and media, [9] [10] all the while continuing to release music under his own name [11] [12] [13] and in collaboration with other composers. [14]

Film and TV score work

Glotman’s work for film has included co-composing False Positive [15] with Lucy Railton, an A24 production written by Ilana Glazer and John Lee. In 2018, he began collaborating with the influential, late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson on his directorial debut Last and First Men , [16] developing the film score and recording for him. Glotman also worked with him as additional music composer [17] for Mandy [18] (2018) and recorded for other projects. After his passing, he was tasked with co-composing and producing the score of Last and First Men . [19] [20] The film premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2020, [21] and the soundtrack album was released by Deutsche Grammophon. [22] In addition, he has worked with and contributed to scores by composers such as Hildur Guðnadóttir, [23] Ben Frost, Geoff Barrow [24] and Ben Salisbury, Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka. [25]

Solo Work

Under his own name, Glotman has released music that is directly tied to his training and relationship with the double bass. [26] Études (2015) [27] was an attempt at disrupting the learned habits of playing a classical instrument and exploring hidden resonances, physical vibrations, and the outer edges of the instrument's acoustic dynamic range. Compound (2017) [28] [26] expands these experiments to a trio, adding pianist Rieko Okuda and percussionist Marcello Silvio Busato into the musical conversation.

Glotman’s solo projects include KETEV, [29] a dark techno / Ambient project under which he released albums on the labels Opal Tapes, [30] Where To Now? and Portals Editions. [31] In addition, he has released under Blessed Initiative, [32] an Electroacoustic project on the label Subtext.

Collaborations

Glotman has worked closely with musical collaborators. [33] Together with Swedish composer Mats Erlandsson [34] he has released two albums, [26] and with Icelandic violinist and composer Viktor Orri Árnason [35] he has released an album on the Icelandic Label Bedroom Community. [36]

Discography

TitleAlbum details
Nimbes (with James Ginzburg)
  • Released: January 11, 2014
  • Label: Subtext
KETEV (as Ketev)
Northern Gulfs
  • Released: April 1, 2014
  • Label: Glacial Movements
Singular Stare (as Ketev)
  • Released: August 4, 2014
  • Label: Where To Now?
Études
  • Released: July 25, 2015
  • Label: Subtext
Traces Of Weakness (as Ketev)
  • Released: January 15, 2016
  • Label: Where To Now?
I Know No Weekend (as Ketev)
  • Released: July 1, 2016
  • Label: Portals Editions
Blessed Initiative

(as Blessed Initiative)

  • Released: October 18, 2016
  • Label: Subtext
Negative Chambers

(with Mats Erlandsson)

  • Released: July 13, 2018
  • Label: Miasmah
Compound
  • Released: October 6, 2017
  • Label: Subtext
Vast

(with Viktor Orri Árnason)

Last and First Men

(with Jóhann Jóhannsson)

Emanate [37]

(with Mats Erlandsson)

Speculative Memories

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorCredits
2023 Reptile Grant Singer Composer
2020 False Positive John Lee Composer
2019 Last and First Men [38] Jóhann Jóhannsson Composer
2018 Mandy [39] Panos Cosmatos Composer, additional music
2018My Unknown Soldier [40] Anna Kryvenko Composer

Awards and nominations

YearAwardNominationFilmResultNotes
2021 Edda Award Best Music Last and First Men Nominated [41] Shared with Jóhann Jóhannsson
2022 ASCAP Screen Music Award [42] Original Score in Streaming Film False Positive WonShared with Lucy Railton

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