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john zorn: genius grant
its in alphabetical order so youll have to scroll (but you knew that). the summer of the first year i moved to new york city (82?) i saw zorn perform several times. he was using (playing) various duck-calls blown in to a shallow bowl of water seated at a card table. GENIUS!! seriously.
the next year we started an east village gallery at 104 e10th st. i comissioned a show called "works in concrete" that was devoted to visual writing or concrete poetry work on paper. it included a whole bunch of people related to the local avant garde film scene. some nyu film students we knew took classes with abigail child whos extended crowd included word and concrete poets henry hill, chas burnstein, etc. also zorn, who was a fave for film soundtrack purposes. we included a bunch of his xerox street advert show flyers done in the ransom note cut and paste stye. Genius!