En vrac (161) - Mars 2025

 

Courtes vidéos:
- John Zorn et Laurie Anderson, Roulette, 15 février.
- New Masada Quartet, The Drawing Center, 1er mars.

Photos :
- New Masada Quartet, The Drawing Center : 1 - 2 .
- "Theatre of Musical Optics", The Drawing Center.
- Catalogue de l'expo John Zorn au Drawing Center.

Articles :
- John Zorn’s “Hermetic Cartography” - A remarkable, career-spanning visual art exhibit at The Drawing Center (Jazz Times). 
- John Zorn : A new show of drawings, notebooks, and scores by the avant-garde composer reveals the private practices and processes of over fifty years of genre-defying works (4columns).

Concerts :
- New Masada Quartet, Roulette, 23 mai.
- Le Bester Quartet joue "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass" de John Zorn, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres, 25 avril.

Chroniques de disques :
- John Zorn - Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman (AOTY).
- The Dreamers, O'o (The Last Psychedelic Blog).
- John Zorn/The JACK Quartet - The Complete String Quartets (Dusted Magazine).
- John Zorn/The JACK Quartet - The Complete String Quartets (All Music).
- PainKiller, Samsara (Guts of Darkness).

Nouvelle pièce de musique de concert :

- Hymns at Heaven's Gate (2024) • duration: 9'

"Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain." A lush and evocative setting of two Shakespeare sonnets—140 and 141—for voice and piano with optional improvising rhythm section of bass and drums.