Yair Elazar Glotman
Submerged double bass and spectral electronics that feel like heavy shadows. Deep, textural ambient for moments of profound isolation.
Submerged double bass and spectral electronics that feel like heavy shadows. Deep, textural ambient for moments of profound isolation.
Listening to Yair Elazar Glotman is like being slowly lowered into a deep, dark body of water where the pressure is immense but strangely comforting. His music is built from the ground up, literally, using the profound low-end frequencies of the double bass as a foundation. It is not just sound; it is a physical vibration that fills the room with a sense of weight and ancient history. The textures are thick and grainy, often feeling like they were pulled from the earth itself.
What sets Glotman apart is his mastery of the double bass as a generator of spectral noise rather than just a rhythm instrument. He uses extended techniques, bowing and scraping to find the ghost notes and overtones that exist between the standard scales. When these organic sounds meet his digital processing, the result is a 'power ambient' sound that feels both prehistoric and futuristic. It is the sound of tectonic plates shifting or a cathedral breathing in the dark.
For those new to his work, 'Emanate' is the perfect entry point to see how he weaves together acoustic instruments and electronic manipulation. If you are looking for something more cinematic and tense, his score for 'Reptile' showcases his ability to create a sense of dread through sheer atmosphere. This is music for when you want to disappear into the texture of the world around you.
Yair Elazar Glotman is a composer and musician based in Berlin. He releases his own music and composes film scores, most recently Netflix's "Reptile", A24's "False Positive" (co-composed with Lucy Railton) and Johann Johannsson’s film Last and First Men (co-composed with Jóhann Jóhannsson). In addition, he collaborates and contributes double bass recordings for other composers, including Hildur Guðnadóttir, 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.
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