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 A24’s “False Positive” (co-composed with Lucy Railton) and Johann Johannsson’s film “Last and First Men” (co-composed with Johann Johannsson). 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. 
== Early life ==
Glotman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He started his musical education at the age of eight, initially on the classical guitar and bass guitar. He later took up the double bass and received both jazz and classical music training. Between 2006-2008 he studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, then moved to Berlin to study 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. 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. 
=== 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, Subtext) 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, Subtext) 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: 130701 / Fatcat
== Filmography ==
Year	Film 	Director 	Credits
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
==In the media==
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== References ==
==External links==
* Yair Elazar Glotman on imdb
* Yair Elazar Glotman discography on Discogs
* Yair Elazar Glotman on AllMusic
* Artist Page on the label 130701
* Yair Elazar Glotman on spotify
* Yair Elazar Glotman on instagram
* Yair Elazar Glotman on facebook
* Reverse Engineer: Yair Elazar Glotman Interview
Category:Israeli composers
Category:Double-bassists
Category:Experimental musicians
Category:Musicians from Berlin
Category:Film score composers
Category:1987 births
Category:Berlin University of the Arts alumni
Category:Electroacoustic music composers
Category:Master's degrees