2020 - Sound Work

Sound installation (30 minutes) in a dialogue with art works by artist Gary Goldstein, accompaning his exhibution at Neve Schechter Art Gallery, Tel Aviv.

2019 - Vocal sound work

Sound installation (32 minutes) in a dialogue with art works by artist Adva Drori, accompaning her art exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Kiryat-Tivon.

2016 - The Tub​

BenZaken's vocal work for voice and soundtrack (4 minutes)

Text: Ronit Matalon. Listen on Youtube >>

2016 - A Tale Of A Man Who Is Searching For Place

For voice, soundtrack and audience (4 minutes)

Text: fragments by S.Y. Agnon, alongside "The traveler song" (lyrics: David Shimoni, folk melody).

Commissioned by "Israeli Spring" Festival, Hasimta Theater, Tel-Aviv

2016 - Lovers' Talk

For voice and soundtrack (4 minutes)

Text: fragments from stories by S.Y. Agnon, alongside "A Love Song" (lyrics: I. Manger, folk melody).

Commissioned by "Israeli Spring" Festival, Hasimta Theater, Tel-Aviv

2016 - From Apartment To Apartment​

For voice and soundtrack (20 minutes)

Text: story by S.Y. Agnon.

Commissioned by "Israeli Spring" Festival, Hasimta Theater, Tel-Aviv

2015 - The Queen Came to the King

Sound installation for an art exhibition by artist Adva Drori.
Premiered at Zadik gallery, Jaffa. Excerpt on Youtube >>

2015 - Bettering a Dream הטבת חלום

Vocal work for voice, tape, and audience (5 minutes)

Text: Etty BenZaken, alongside text from the Talmud
Commissioned by The Israeli Women Composers Forum. Listen on Youtube >>

2014 - Working Wonders

For voice and tape, with text from Exodus 15, Song of the Sea. Listen on Youtube >>

2009 - Name

Soundtrack for a video-art work by Inga Fonar Cocos.
Commissioned by the Poland-Israel exhibition, Artists House, Tel Aviv. Excerpt on Youtube (earphones recommended) >>

2008 - From One Place To Another

Voice installation

Text: fragments from S.Y. Agnon works

For the new opening of Agnon's House, Jerusalem.

2007 - A Scroll From A Pre-Writing Era

For voice and soundtrack.

Text: Hadassa Tal

2007 - A Poem From an Unimagined Voyage

For voice and soundtrack,
Text: Riki Daskal, alongside Yiddish folksong. Listen on Youtube >>

2006-2015 - Ester - a series of short pieces for two vocalists

Text-Sound works 

Co-created and co-performed by Etty BenZaken and Anat Pick,

Texts by John Cage, Vito Acconchi and others, and original texts by Anat Pick and Etty BenZaken.

Listen to "Ester 1" on Youtube >>

Listen to "Ester 2" on Youtube >>

Various lectures about The Ladino folk songs, folk culture and language

Etty Ben-Zaken speaks about the Judeo-Spanish various folk songs genres, about the female voice and the use of charms, about the Ladino language and the way it was preserved by Judeo-Spanish women.

A series of 6 lectures about vocal music

Etty Ben-Zaken speaks about the voice as a music instrument. Using DVDs and live examples, BenZaken demonstrates the various vocal techniques used in ethnic, popular, classical and contemporary music.

lecture-workshop

Etty Ben-Zaken guides this lecture-workshop for multi-cultural and inter-cultural groups. She has conducted the workshop to Jewish and Arab students in the DEpartment of Theater, University of Haifa; to Jewish and Arab students in the program "Journey to the Other's Culture" in Hadassa College, Jerusalem; and to theater students at the Tel Aviv University.

A series of 6 lectures about ethnic music

Etty Ben-Zaken speaks about ethnic music in Israel and abroad: the way it was preserved, its role in folk rituals and its revival as 'world music.' The lectures are accompanied by DVDs and by Etty's live demonstrations.

A series of 7 lectures about folktales

Etty Ben-Zaken speaks about folktales, their role in culture, and the way they still play it, though in new media. The series is accompanied by films' excerpts and many folktales performed by BenZaken.

"מסע אישי עם תיאטרון-מוסיקה"

Expected in the 4th volume of Peimot - Israeli journal of Music.

"הקול הנוכח בכל - עיון בשלושה פרגמנטים של פרפורמנס קולי עממי בפי נשים יהודיות-ספרדיות"

Expected as part of a book in honor of Prof. Haya Bar-Yitzhak, the University of Haifa.

"The Drum's Husband Went to Mecca": Children's Folk Songs as Intercultural Bridges, in Dappim Research in Literature, Volume 20, 2017, Haifa: Department of Hebrew and comperative literature, University of Haifa, pp. 277-292. 

"Old and Contemporary, Folk and Personal - a Chronological Survey of the Dialogue between Folk Materials and Contemporary Works in Eitan Steinberg and Etty BenZaken's Collaborations", in Music and Dance in Time, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel, 2014, pp.41-50.

"Turkey, Jews of", in Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore, Raphael Patai, founding editor, Haya Bar-Itzhak, editor (New York: M.E. Sharpe Inc.) 2012.

"כוחו של סיפור" מאמר ביקורת על ספר היובל של אסע"י, בתוך ידע עם – במה לפולקלור יהודי, כרך ל"ד-ל"ה, מספר 69-70, תשע"ה 2009, עמ. 161-166.