Arcana II: Musicians on Music (No. 2)
Book Summary Information
Editor: John ZornContributor: Yamataka Eye
Contributor: J. Thirlwell
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-01
ISBN: 0978833767
Number of pages: 300
Publisher: Hips Road/Tzadik
Book Reviews of Arcana II: Musicians on Music (No. 2)
Book Review: Not as engaging as the First
Summary: 3 Stars
I' don know, this second is not as engaging as the first, it seems everyone is looking at their own navel too much, and if you are particularly into the subject matter and materials, as marginal film sources as O'Rourke,and otherson Dada and Surreal (that hasn't died yet) the writing is pretty useless. I like Jason Eckardt, for he was very straight-forward just describing to you a piece he had done, and giving its contours and outlines, Is this is what we got now?, everyone in the avant-garde scene is simply working at their own shibboleths, tribal agendas and self-indulgences without any cross-referential anything, as perhaps the Scratch Orchestra work had implied or collective improvisations, the improv scene seems to get smaller, contracting into itself, without any looking outwards, I guess that is a dirty word "collective" anything, it doesn't make for a free market, we need to privatize the avant-garde as Reagan and Thatcher Years taught us, that's were the dough is, we need people to pluck down their Bread to help Feed us Great Unwashed Improvisors. . . Zorn should be given some Stars here however for his work in trying, it seems he picks whomever he knows, how about spreading the wealth for these Crumbs more, I guess that is too extreme a view.I'd like more music examples, even if you can't write music properly, give me what you got anyways. . .
Still I 'm happy with sheer technical insight now, if you can give me that, that's useful for writing music, or improvising, or making film wioth paint with improv, or dancing, or playing the french horn with a garden hose, or torturing an electric guitar with with multiple incisions of metal and wood rods, laying motors and cocktail mixers across the hardened body of the stratocaster Gibson.
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