Big Ears Festival, 2023

Yarn / Wire performing Lucier / McIntosh and Mochizuki

Sam Gendel / Sam Wilkes

Phill Niblock

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet

Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra

David Byrne’s Reasons to Be Cheerful

Wendy Eisenberg

Mary Halvorson Amaryllis

Kali Malone’s Living Torch

The Meridian Brothers

Tyshawn Sorey Trio with Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills

Irreversible Entanglements

Tarbaby with David Murray

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba

Catherine Lamb performed by Jack Quartet

William Parker Mayan Space Station

Vinicius Cantuaria

James ‘Blood’ Ulmer

Xylouris White

John Zorn’s Gnostic Trio

Theon Cross

Éliane Radigue performed by Nate Wooley

Kate NV

Oneohtrix Point Never

a formal introduction

A primer of sorts, broken into loose categories, ino the wide world of NYC’s avant champion, John Zorn.

MASADA

Masada Zayin
Shevet
Masada
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Mahalalel
Bar Kokhba

GAME PIECES

John Zorn Xu Feng
Dragon Gate Inn
John Zorn
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Senbu
John Zorn's Cobra

JAZZCORE & AVANT ROCK

Painkiller Execution Grou d
Pashupatinath (excerpt)
Painkiller
Moonchild Astronome
Astronome, Act III (excerpt)
Moonchild

IMPROVISATION

Zorn Sharp Horvitz Previte Downtown Lullaby
77 White
Zorn / Horvitz / Sharp / Previte
John Zorn The Hermetic Organ
Office, no.4 (excerpt)
John Zorn

EXOTICA & NEW ROMANTICISM

Cyro Baptistas Banquet of the Spirits
Mount Analogue (excerpt)
Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits
Gnostic Trio Gnostic Preludes
Sign and Sigil
the Gnostic Trio

FILM SCORES

John Zorn The Treatment
Anxieties
John Zorn
John Zorn Working Mans Death
Sulfur Mining
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ORCHESTRAL & CHAMBER WORKS

John Zorn Music and Its Double
A Rebours
John Zorn
John Zorn String Quartets
Kol Nidre
John Zorn

AVANT COMPOSITION

John Zorn New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands
Hwang Chin-ee (excerpt)
John Zorn
John Zorn Nova Express
Chemical Garden
Nova Express