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John Zorn: "My concern is not so much with how things sound, as with how things work."
Reasonably thorough notes on John Zorn's "game pieces" can be found on this John Zorn FAQ, if you scroll down.
"A game piece ... is a method of group improvisation where the structure of the piece (the rules of the game) is set by a prompter at performance time, and the players have complete freedom within the structure. ... Just as people playing games or sports must follow certain rules which determine how they interact, but not exactly what they do (in baseball, for instance, the infield fly rule says what to do when one occurs, but there is no rule governing when a player must hit an infield fly), in his game pieces, Zorn creates structures and situations for improvisors to perform in, while providing little, if any, actual notated music." Feel free to splurge on this 7-CD set of Zorn's game music, or just click on this link to hear a minute or so of Hockey.
Further reading: this article goes into greater detail about the inner workings of the game piece Cobra (the title is taken, I believe, from an old TSR wargame).
Labels: creative_process, instructions, music_commentary
Friday, March 15, 2002
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