John Zorn’s File Card Works

<p>This book is the first study of John Zorn’s ‘file card’ works with special focus made on the pieces <i>Godard </i>(1985) <i>Spillane </i>(1986) <i>Interzone </i>(2010) and <i>Liber Novus </i>(2010). It explains the unique creative process behind these compositions contextualizing them in relation to the history of file cards the ‘open work’ concept cinematic listening and uncreative aesthetics. Semiotic hermeneutic and ekphrastic analyses draw hypertextual links between the four file card compositions and the worlds of their respective dedicatees: author Mickey Spillane filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard novelist William S. Burroughs and painter Brion Gysin and psychiatrist C. G. Jung.</p><p>This book will appeal not only to those interested in Zorn’s music but also to scholars of music semiotics and hermeneutics intermedia studies and avant-garde music.</p>