Arcana
Subtitle: musicians on music
By: edited by John Zorn
Contributors: Granary Books (Firm)
Publisher: Granary Books/Hips Road; Distributed to the trade by D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Musicians as authors; Music; History and criticism
Notes: "Third printing 2005."

"Recommended listening": p. 377-379.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gift; Karla Nielsen; May 2, 2016.
Table of contents: title: Plunderstanding ecophonomics / John Oswald; title: The counterpoint of species / Scott Johnson; title: Treatment for a film in fifteen scenes / John Zorn; title: An adventure / Frances-Marie Uitti; title: Teaching improvised music : an ethnographic memoir / George E. Lewis; title: Soul mechanical / Ikue Mori; title: Pidgin musics / Chris Brown; title: Aural architecture : the confluence of freedom / Myra Melford; title: That silence thing / Anthony Coleman; title: An approach to guitar fingering / Bill Frisell; title: One/Two / David Shea; title: Notes from a trans-cultural diary / Miya Masaoka; title: Music suffers / Eyvind Kang; title: The three-fold ear and the energies of enthusiasm / Z'EV; title: Maim that tune / Guy Klucevsek; title: Elements of improvisation / Marilyn Crispell; title: All the rage / Bob Ostertag; title: Propositional music : on emergent properties in morphogenesis and the evolution of music / David Rosenboom; title: Earplugs / Marc Ribot; title: Pauline's questions / David Mahler; title: A personal pedagogy / Mark Dresser; title: A brief CARBONic history / Elliott Sharp; title: Awake at the wheel : observations in overdrive / Gerry Hemingway; title: How we eat our young / Mike Patton; title: Playing with fire : drinking, and burning, in the dreamtime / Peter Garland; title: Studying gagaku / Lois V. Vierk; title: Tapped teeth : try different speeds / Fred Frith; title: Devices and strategies for structured improvisation / Larry Ochs; title: Against radical contingency / Steven Drury; title: "We are revealing a hand that will later reveal us" : notes on form and harmony in Coltrane's work / John Schott.