Binding: Paperback
Description: The final installment of John Zorn's major series of new music theory with Oren Ambarchi Peter Blegvad Annea Lockwood Henry Threadgill and many more Initiated in 1997 and now in its tenth and final installment John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series is a major source of new music theory and practice in the 21st century. Illuminating directly via the personal vision and experience of the practitioners themselves who experience music not from a cool safe distance but from the white - hot center of the creative crucible itself Arcana elucidates through essays manifestos scores interviews notebooks and critical papers. Over 25 years the ten volumes of Arcana have presented the writings of over 300 of the most extraordinary musical thinkers of our time who address composing performing improvising touring collaborating living and thinking about music from diverse refreshing and often surprising perspectives. Technical philosophical political artistic and mystical in nature these writings provide direct connections to the creative processes and hidden stratagems of musicians from the worlds of classical rock jazz film soundtrack improvised music and more. Contributors include: Susan Alcorn Oren Ambarchi Ran Blake Peter Blegvad Tyondai Braxton Patricia Brennan John Butcher Ben Coniguliaro Amir Elsaffar Kenny Grohowski Tom Guralnick Mark Helias David Hertzberg Stefan Jackiw Dan Kaufman Derek Keller Richard Kessler Pauline Kim Ulrich Krieger Hannah Lash Dan Lippel Annea Lockwood Dave Lombardo Charlie Looker Thomas Morgan Stephen O Malley Laura Ortman Alex Paxton Alexandria Smith Conrad Tao Pat Thomas Henry Threadgill Anna Webber Fay Victor Christian Wolff and Miguel Zenon.
Title: Arcana X Musicians On Music
Brand: Hips Road/ Tazadik
Barcode: 9780978833718
Pages: 372 Pages, 87 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/2/2021
Category: Literary Essays