Hi, --- COLIN CLARK <colin.clark1@btinternet.com> escribió: > Hi all
Right, so we know the movie isn't perfect. It seems to me, though, that for a lot of Zorn fans Claudia Heuremann's biggest crime was that she made Claudia Heuremann's film - not theirs. Not even John Zorn's.
I have to insist, Colin, that the movie was entitled "12 Stories about John Zorn"!! But according to what you say below, I think I got your point this time.
I don't mean "what other films" but "what other stories"? Hers isn't the only one. She's just the only one who's filmed hers. What about the guys on the list who are writing JZ's biography, for instance? What's the story there? How did they get into it? What led them to it? Or that collaborative tribute project that was all abuzz last year - what happened to it? Did anyone meet up over a coffee to see where to take it? Or maybe there are people on the list who have found themselves in particular lines of work (used CD dealing, maybe; alternative music journalism, perhaps) directly or indirectly as a result of Zorn's music.
These are very interesting questions, imho. I also wonder if there are some nice stories out there.
But, it's not absurd. I'm a writer too. Reading great writers made me want to write. I was listening to a BBC Radio 3 interview of Jan Garbarek last night and he told his story about being turned on by Coltrane's playing and how that led to his own music making. Artists inspire in all kinds of not-absurd ways. Is it absurd that someone should be so moved by Coltrane's playing to pick up a tenor sax?
In that sense it's not, but some people just don't feel the need to do that or they're inspired in different ways. There's a Spanish guitar in my room, but after coming back from a Ribot show I don't necessarily feel like playing. I'll probably just sit down, relax and listen to some of his own music or write a review as contagious as I can.
But I'm not just talking about art. Maybe John Zorn's interrogation of his feelings about Judaism has led others to reappraise their own faith - Jewish or otherwise.
I'm quite positive that has occurred to several people. Perhaps being a fan of his
music put you in touch with some great people you would never otherwise have met.
That's for sure. I've met (personally or via e-mail) several nice people from this list or have befriended people in my country for the sole fact that they're Zorn fans (that was only the initial bound, of course). Perhaps something in
Zorn's creative, collaborative process touched you in a way that changed your view of the kind of potential that exists between and among groups of people. Perhaps it put you on a search of your own for something that was awakened in you.
In my personal case, Zorn definitely changed the way I view art in general, and since I discovered his music, my tastes have been as democratic as possible, making no distinction between the greatness in Brian Wilson's harmonies or that in the Ruins' stuff, Frank Sinatra or Keiji Haino. It's a great delight to have gotten rid of "classist"-attitudes.
You know, I'm just asking, now that Claudia Heuremann has had her say, what stories do people on the list have about John Zorn? *Their* John Zorn. As I said, there's got to be more than 12.
Certainly. Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: FME "12.05.04 Barcelona" ______________________________________________ Yahoo! lanza su nueva tecnologÃa de búsquedas ¿te atreves a comparar? http://busquedas.yahoo.es