John Zorn en 2011 - Bilan

 
Le bilan discographique de John Zorn pour 2011 :

Caym	Satyr's Play	Nova Express	Enigmata
A Dreamers' Christmas	At the Gates of Paradise	Elegy (réédition)	The Receiving Surfaces (Vinyl, avec Rova)

Pour 2011, on retiendra également les concerts d'orgue solo, les premières d'oeuvres de musique de concert (Machine de l'être à l'Opéra de NY; Bateau Ivre, Illuminations, Passagen, À Rebours au Miller Theatre en décembre), les Masada Marathon (New York en mars; Middelheim en août), les concerts pour le Japon en mars, les podcasts, le script du film A Film in 15 Scenes.
 

Moonchild

 
D'après ce qu'on peut lire sur la page Facebook de l'ingénieur du son Marc Urselli, le prochain Moonchild sera joué par le trio de base (Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn et Joey Baron) avec John Medeski.
Marc Urselli : Second day in the studio mixing John Zorn music... Mike Patton, John Medeski and Trevor Dunn sounding astonishingly powerful! Zorn rocks!!!
wow long day in the studio... 12 hours later this Zorn record is a life-changing experience... Patton, Baron, Dunn & Medeski killed it!


 

John Zorn @6th st synagogue

 
John Zorn et cie à la 6th Street Synagogue pour Nittl-Nacht (Christmas Eve).


 

Walking in the Winter Wonderland

 
John Zorn, Frank London, Shanir Blumenkranz, Cyro Baptista, Greg Wall et cie à la 6th Street Synagogue pour Nittl-Nacht (Christmas Eve).


 

Diffusion des concerts de Middelheim

 

L'émission Take 7, sur Klara, station de la radio publique flamande, diffusera deux concerts enregistrés lors du Festival de jazz de Middelheim : celui de Bar Kokhba ce soir, 23 décembre, et celui de Masada le 6 janvier.




 

Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra et John Zorn

 

John Zorn avec l'orchestre de Karl Berger à The Stone le 5 décembre dernier.


 

A Film In 15 Scenes - Compte-rendu

 

Un membre de la zorn-list fait un compte-rendu de la projection du film dont Zorn a écrit le script, A Film In 15 Scenes. Il semble qu'une sortie en DVD soit prévue pour l'années prochaine.

« Yesterday evening I attended a screening of John Zorn: A Film In 15 Scenes at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in San Francisco. The film actually consists of four short films, all interpreting a script Zorn wrote comprising 254 shots split into 15 scenes. Four directors - Henry Hills, Gobolux, Lewis Klahr and Joey Izzo - each collaborated with Zorn to film their interpretation of the script.

The film first screened at the New York Film Festival in October and you can read Zorn's detailed notes on the film at the festival's web site - http://filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/john-zorn-a-film-in-15-scenes. At yesterday's screening Joey Izzo was in attendance and before the film he briefly spoke about collaborating with Zorn and Ikue Mori on his version of the script.

Since the films are all rather abstract I won't attempt to describe them much, but I definitely enjoyed seeing the different treatments. Henry Hills, Gobolux and Joey Izzo's versions had much in common in that they all primarily used film clips to realize the scenes, though the individual works were vastly different. Lewis Klahr's film stood apart as it used animation extensively, giving it a different feel from the other trio of films.

I highly recommend that you take a few minutes to read the notes at the link above and see the film if you have the opportunity. Hopefully a DVD edition is forthcoming on Tzadik in the new year.

On a related note, the notes describe what occurs at Theater Of Musical Optics performances. I was fascinated to learn the the performances continue to this day, and are only attended by ~7 people each year. How interesting!»

Paul Audino
 

Photos de John Zorn

 

Quelques photos de John Zorn par Pascal Perich.
 

A John Zorn Christmas

 

Entrevue de John Zorn sur WNYC à l'occasion de la sortie de son album de Noël.


 

Nouvel enregistrement de John Zorn

 

Selon l'ingénieur du son Marc Urselli, John Zorn enregistrait aujourd'hui un nouvel album avec Joey Baron, Trevor Dunn, Carol Emmanuel, John Medeski et Kenny Wollesen.

Unstoppable amazing inspiring John Zorn allowing me the honor of recording his music again today (w/ Baron,Dunn,Medeski,Wollesen,Emmanuel)