'Arcana' is a fine cross-section of a wide variety of ideas that circulate among Zorn's cohort. Ranging from more abstracted theory to specific description of technical approaches to other random interjections. I think my favorite piece was Ribot's 'On the use of earplugs'. An excellent sense of humor about a very practical nuisance. There's a dedication throughout the book to grappling with the music itself, rather than the personalities surrounding the musicians. It probably gives you a much better idea than, say, an interview usually does of what they're about. As far as Zorn being hesitant to address the issue of violence or exploitation as it relates to his music, I see it in correspondence with David Lynch's reticence about the ideas behind his films: he'd rather leave it up to the spectators to draw their own meanings, however contradictory, from the work itself rather than dictate them himself in terms other than what the work itself reveals. Obviously, many people are going to take exception to the imagery used in some of Zorn's releases, but in every instance a case can be made for artistic value if you move beyond a certain middle-class ethic. That's not to say this value justifies or somehow overrides the potential for exploitation involved, but it should be pretty obvious that he's working from a rather extreme code that exists at least in part as a reaction against stratified concepts of ethical art. Maybe Joe Coleman or R Crumb would be a better comparisons than David Lynch, because of the severity and extremeness of the imagery, or Pasolini in another set of relations...J.G. Ballard... In any case, an interview setting, more or less sympathetic, often only ever breaches a superficial aspect of this dimension of art. I can already hear the voices on the zornlist rising in protest...god bless all you folks. I must admit, some questions occurred to me that our recent interviewer failed to ask in response to Zorn's assertions. --crometheus
From: Efrén del Valle <efrendv@yahoo.es> To: zorn-list@lists.xmission.com Subject: Arcana: Musicians on Music Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:58:25 +0100 (CET)
Hi,
Anyone has some opinions on this book? I've been wanting to order it for a while but I've always hesitated. Any good on-line stores where I can get it at a reasonable price?
Thanks in advance.
Best,
Efrén del Valle n.p: The new Painkiller live on Tzadik. I don't see the problem with this album. I think it's just great.
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