He has worked as a professional musician since 1963, and is regarded as a pioneer of industrial music.
In a review in 1983 in OP Magazine, critic Roy Sablosky wrote: "Z'EV doesn't just break the rules, he changes them."
In the Nov/Dec 1983 issue of the 'East Village Eye' journalist Louis Morra wrote: "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."
In 1984 on the occasion of the release of the 'Six Examples' video, director Joe Rees wrote: "Target Video believes Z'EV is one of the most unique and important artists of this century."
In 2008, Colombian critic Edgar Mauricio Ramirez Diaz described him as "Without a doubt one of the most influential persons in the whole post-industrial history of contemporary music."
His work with both text and sound has been influenced by the Middle Eastern mystical system best known as Kabbalah (although not of the Jewish variety), as well as - but not limited to - African, Afro-Caribbean and Indonesian rhythms, musics and cultures. He has studied Ewe (Ghana) music, Balinese gamelan, and Indian tala.
z'ev requests that people note either "Z'EV" or "z'ev" are acceptable typographies for his "brand name" (context depending), but that "Z'ev" most emphatically is not.
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