John Zorn's File Card Works

This book is the first study of John Zorn's 'file card' works, with special focus made on the pieces Godard (1985), Spillane (1986), Interzone (2010), and Liber Novus (2010).

Maurice Windleburn holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on avant-garde music, music philosophy, and ekphrastic relations between music and other artforms. His work has been published in a number of journals, including Organised Sound, Tempo, and the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics.

1. The File Card Work and its Model Listener 2. The Hypotexts of Sound Blocks 3. Hypertextual Hermeneutics 4. From Metatext to Hypertext via Uncreativity