# Yair Elazar Glotman

Yair Elazar Glotman (born 1987) 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.

## Early life

Glotman studied orchestral double bass at the Berlin University of the Arts 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, all the while continuing to release music under his own name and in collaboration with other composers.

### Film and TV score work

Glotman’s work for film has included co-composing False Positive 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, developing the film score and recording for him. Glotman also worked with him as additional music composer for Mandy (2018) and recorded for other projects. After his passing, he was tasked with co-composing and producing the score of Last and First Men. The film premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2020, and the soundtrack album was released by Deutsche Grammophon. In addition, he has worked with and contributed to scores by composers such as Hildur Guðnadóttir, Ben Frost, Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka.

### Solo Work

Under his own name, Glotman has released music that is directly tied to his training and relationship with the double bass. Études (2015) 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) 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, a dark techno / Ambient project under which he released albums on the labels Opal Tapes, Where To Now? and Portals Editions. In addition, he has released under Blessed Initiative, an Electroacoustic project on the label Subtext.

### Collaborations

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

## Discography

| Title | Album details |
| Nimbes (with James Ginzburg) | Released: January 11, 2014 Label: Subtext |
| KETEV (as Ketev) | Released: March 29, 2014 Label: Opal Tapes |
| 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) | Released: August 30, 2019 Label: Bedroom Community |
| Last and First Men (with Jóhann Jóhannsson) | Released: February 28, 2020 Label: Deutsche Grammophon |
| Emanate (with Mats Erlandsson) | Released: May 15, 2020 Label: FatCat Records |
| Speculative Memories | Released: October 27, 2022 Label: SA Recordings |

## Filmography

| Year | Film | Director | Credits |
| 2023 | Reptile | Grant Singer | Composer |
| 2020 | False Positive | John Lee | Composer |
| 2019 | Last and First Men | Jóhann Jóhannsson | Composer |
| 2018 | Mandy | Panos Cosmatos | Composer, additional music |
| 2018 | My Unknown Soldier | Anna Kryvenko | Composer |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Nomination | Film | Result | Notes |
| 2021 | Edda Award | Best Music | Last and First Men | Nominated | Shared with Jóhann Jóhannsson |
| 2022 | ASCAP Screen Music Award | Original Score in Streaming Film | False Positive | Won | Shared with Lucy Railton |