Comment on AVANT’s interview with John Zorn by Ellie M. Hisama

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John Zorn: Autonomy and the Avant-Garde (excerpt) by Ted Gordon

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John Zorn şi „multiversul“ muzicii sale avangardiste by Livia Georgeta Suciu

“…In this context, we focus on the artist John Zorn, given that he challenged all musical conventions and showed us that all boundaries are permeable, dissolvable and can merge. …”
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The free improvisation game: performing John Zorn’s Cobra by Van der Schyff, D

“…A rehearsal and performance of John Zorn’s Cobra––a ‘game’ piece for improvisers––is analyzed from a first-person perspective; relevant research in music psychology is considered; and suggestions are made with regard to how we may better understand the nature of musical communication in improvised contexts. …”

Implicarea deconstrucției filosofice în muzica lui John Zorn by Livia Georgeta Suciu

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Formulating a ‘cinematic listener’ for John Zorn’s file card compositions by Maurice Windleburn

“…In a 1995 interview, contemporary American composer John Zorn stated: ‘I got involved in music because of film […] There’s a lot of film elements in my music’ (Duckworth, 1995, p. 451). …”
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Zorn: Avant/Après/Passé [przekład] by John Lowell Brackett

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Komentarz do wywiadu z Johnem Zornem by Ellie M. Hisama

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Zorn: Avant/Après/Passé by John Lowell Brackett

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Hlas a gesto v operách Harryho Partcha a Johna Zorna by Jozef Cseres

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Jump cut tehnika filmske montaže Žan-Lika Godara i file cards kompozicioni metod Džona Zorna: analogije i implikacije / Jean-Luc Godard’s Jump Cut and John Zorn’s File Cards Methods: Analogies and Implications by Smiljka Jovanović

“…It seems not only possible, but even comfortable to compare the following models of artistic creation: Jean-Luc Godard’s Jump cut film cut and editing and John Zorn’s File cards montage of musical blocks. These methods aren’t just similar in execution (differences in media and certain technicalities aside) – they come from the same ideological place and embody artists’ social subversions and revolts towards the mainstream in arts. …”
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Composing for Improvisers: Negotiating the Issue of Individual Voice by Hunter Anton

“…Not just by employing the compositional techniques of the likes of Graham Collier, John Zorn, Anthony Braxton and many others who allow room for realtime improvised contributions in performance, but by weaving the unique voices of the musicians into the written material as well. …”
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Power and Equity in the Academy: Change from Within by Ellie M. Hisama

“…The paper I wrote for the latter seminar turned into probably the most widely read piece I’ve published, my article on representations of East Asian women in music by John Mellencamp, David Bowie, and John Zorn (Hisama 1993). After Bowie’s death in 2016, I received calls from journalists who located that article from 1993 and wanted me to comment on Bowie and racism (Tam 2016 and Tandon 2016). …”
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