allright, I've been into ZG for a while, and i don't know anyone else who is, so here are my questions :
1. Are there any good live records? I have Live In Amerika,and the sound is shit, although their performance sounds insane.
2. How the fuck do you pronounce their name?
3. What does the name mean?
4. Nullsonic?Wha?
-wilson
Zeni Geva query.
21. A friend of mine bought "Allright You Little Bastards" and I seem to remember it sounding good. But I don't care much for live recordings.
2. Zen eee Gay Vuh
3. Comes from German. Don't remember it exactly, so someone else may want to weigh in.
4. Beyond playing the low end guitar in this band, Null does a lot of work in the "noise" realm of music. A lot of the tones that he generates are stomp boxes patched together in a scary pile, producing clicks, drones and distorted tones. That's the Nullsonic.
There's a fair amount of this info, probably more accurate, out there on the net.
I have a funny story about seeing Null live, but I have to go now. Maybe later.
= Justin
2. Zen eee Gay Vuh
3. Comes from German. Don't remember it exactly, so someone else may want to weigh in.
4. Beyond playing the low end guitar in this band, Null does a lot of work in the "noise" realm of music. A lot of the tones that he generates are stomp boxes patched together in a scary pile, producing clicks, drones and distorted tones. That's the Nullsonic.
There's a fair amount of this info, probably more accurate, out there on the net.
I have a funny story about seeing Null live, but I have to go now. Maybe later.
= Justin
Zeni Geva query.
3I thought the name loosely meant "money monster" but I don't really know for sure.
What I do know is that they put on one of the bestest, hardesrt, loudest fucking shows I've ever seen. See them if you can
What I do know is that they put on one of the bestest, hardesrt, loudest fucking shows I've ever seen. See them if you can
it's not the length, it's the gersch
Zeni Geva query.
5I remeber reading an interview with Null somewhere online, and if I remeber correctly, it's pronounced "Zen-ee Gee-va" - almost like "give a" (as in "I don't give a...") except the "E" in Geva is pronounced as a long "E" instead of a short "I". I think he said "Zeni" was an old Japanese word for "Money", and "Geva" was German for "Violence". As someone had already mentioned, the Nullsonic is a collection of effects pedals and things strung together. There is a brief, vague description of it here:
http://www.monotremata.com/dead/issues/da36.html
And in case you don't want to have to read through all that stuff to find what you're looking for, the main point of it reads:
For the first time I got to see the Nullsonic up close: it's a big box o' gadgets, all right, consisting of (as well as my memory can dredge up), in order of signal travel, a delay, a different delay, a third delay, a ring modulator (???), another delay, the same brand of ring modulator, an Electro-Harmonix flanger/phaser, and an Electro-Harmonix Chorus, all running out to a direct box/preamp -- in this case, a borrowed Zoom -- and into the store's mono PA. The only input turned out to be a cable with the free end held in Null's hand; sound is activated by Null tapping, rubbing, jerking, flailing, etc. the cable jack itself.
I seem to remember him having a drum machine in there too (for that other "Monster DVD" band, I think), but, as with everything, I'm subject to being wrong.
Also, I think I remember reading somewhere that he used a Boss PS-2 pitch shifter. I dunno.
Anyway....
http://www.monotremata.com/dead/issues/da36.html
And in case you don't want to have to read through all that stuff to find what you're looking for, the main point of it reads:
For the first time I got to see the Nullsonic up close: it's a big box o' gadgets, all right, consisting of (as well as my memory can dredge up), in order of signal travel, a delay, a different delay, a third delay, a ring modulator (???), another delay, the same brand of ring modulator, an Electro-Harmonix flanger/phaser, and an Electro-Harmonix Chorus, all running out to a direct box/preamp -- in this case, a borrowed Zoom -- and into the store's mono PA. The only input turned out to be a cable with the free end held in Null's hand; sound is activated by Null tapping, rubbing, jerking, flailing, etc. the cable jack itself.
I seem to remember him having a drum machine in there too (for that other "Monster DVD" band, I think), but, as with everything, I'm subject to being wrong.
Also, I think I remember reading somewhere that he used a Boss PS-2 pitch shifter. I dunno.
Anyway....
Zeni Geva query.
6"remeber"??? Haha! Apparently I can't remember how to spell, either.... Screw it.[/quote]
Zeni Geva query.
7Justin from Queens wrote:I have a funny story about seeing Null live, but I have to go now.
well here's mine:
i saw nullsonic at barcelona's sonar 2001. i think the best part of that show was watching all the euro trash techno kids trikle back out during his set after waiting two hours to get in to see kid606 or something. oh well, they probably had a better time at the fucking jazzanova show anyway.
Zeni Geva query.
8if "geva" is german it's a different german than the one i grew up with...
no, seriously, the german word vor violence is "gewalt" so it may actually be derived from there.
no, seriously, the german word vor violence is "gewalt" so it may actually be derived from there.
Zeni Geva query.
9Here's my funny story:
I saw Null perform at an NYC venue called the Cooler about four or five years ago. He gets up on stage with this pile of effects (the Nullsonic), all of which are processing a patch cord plugged into nothing. As his fingertips would bridge the sleeve and the tip of the patch cord, the resulting hiccup was mutated and delayed and beat the hell up. This resulted in a gigantic din erupting through the PA.
This goes on for about 20 minutes: Null hunched over this board, intermittently squeezing the patch cord and sometimes sticking it in his mouth while he twiddles effects knobs with his hands. After a while, he starts to look concerned, then downright agitated. He looks up, hops off the stage and disappears to the back of the house. All the while a massive swarm of complex digital dimentia is washing through the room at top volume.
After 30 seconds or so, he walks back up to the stage with soundman in tow. They both begin looking at his pile of stuff, following leads this way and that. The music/noise has not stopped or abated during this whole thing. Finally the soundman holds aloft a different unplugged patch cord leading away from the Nullsonic to the stage snake. Null's eyebrows jump up and he grabs that cord, plugging it into the mess. Although it was unimaginable moments before, suddenly there is twice as much sonic chaos ripping through the room. The soundman heads back and Null works at it for another 20 minutes.
I had to sit down, as I was in pain from laughing.
= Justin
I saw Null perform at an NYC venue called the Cooler about four or five years ago. He gets up on stage with this pile of effects (the Nullsonic), all of which are processing a patch cord plugged into nothing. As his fingertips would bridge the sleeve and the tip of the patch cord, the resulting hiccup was mutated and delayed and beat the hell up. This resulted in a gigantic din erupting through the PA.
This goes on for about 20 minutes: Null hunched over this board, intermittently squeezing the patch cord and sometimes sticking it in his mouth while he twiddles effects knobs with his hands. After a while, he starts to look concerned, then downright agitated. He looks up, hops off the stage and disappears to the back of the house. All the while a massive swarm of complex digital dimentia is washing through the room at top volume.
After 30 seconds or so, he walks back up to the stage with soundman in tow. They both begin looking at his pile of stuff, following leads this way and that. The music/noise has not stopped or abated during this whole thing. Finally the soundman holds aloft a different unplugged patch cord leading away from the Nullsonic to the stage snake. Null's eyebrows jump up and he grabs that cord, plugging it into the mess. Although it was unimaginable moments before, suddenly there is twice as much sonic chaos ripping through the room. The soundman heads back and Null works at it for another 20 minutes.
I had to sit down, as I was in pain from laughing.
= Justin
Zeni Geva query.
10Null told me once that another reason he liked the name Zeni Geva was because it had a "Z" and a "V" in the words, and that it looked cool because the letters looked "sharp".