John Zorn
Day 55
#98 – John Zorn (b.1953). American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Albums include: The Big Gundown (1985), Spillane (1987), and Naked City (with the group Naked City, 1989).
Zorn has stated: “All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I’m an additive person – the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can’t see the connections, but they are there.” Zorn has been prolific in his recordings and this idea of all these connections formed the starting point. Constantly trying new things and working with many different people. I started drawing lines to suggest the different ideas, people and music and making a change in the line to suggest a ‘Z’. I was going to try and recreate this but liked the sketch – it suggested the idea of experimentation. Once scanned and reversed out it was just a matter of looking at different colours.
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The original sketch – looking at this again, I think I prefer this un-cropped version. The line endings make for a more interesting image.
Listen...
to excerpts from ‘The Book of Shadows.’