John Zorn - Bonehead

"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
11/24/2015 at 10:09 • Filed to: Musiclopnik

While I’m in a musiclopnik mood, here’s a sub-One Minute tune to add to your arsenal. Use whenever you want to freak people out at traffic lights, or when people get into your car for the first time!

DISCUSSION (8)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Wobbles the Mind
11/24/2015 at 10:19

What the hell was that?

Wobbles the Mind > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/24/2015 at 10:29

When an avant-garde composer makes a parody tune for a psycho murder/drama. Features Tim Roth by the way (in the movie, not the tune)!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Wobbles the Mind
11/24/2015 at 11:52

I’m a little slow, I’m afraid. Is that the beginning of a psycho/murder movie and that “avant-garde” stuff is part of the intro? What is the title of that bit and who recorded it?

Wobbles the Mind > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/24/2015 at 12:08

“Funny Games” directed by Michael Hineke. It is the 2007 remake of the 1997 film. Here’s a better clip. It’s one of those times where the music needs the scene to really make sense. It’s just background noise.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Wobbles the Mind
11/25/2015 at 11:35

Out of curiosity, what is the appeal to you of this film? For my part, why anyone would write this film or produce it or view it is completely beyond me.

Wobbles the Mind > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/25/2015 at 12:54

What’s even more interesting is that the director made the film in 1997 and then made the exact same film again a decade later to better appeal to the US predominantly. That tells me it is something very personal to the director and, if you have done any art appreciation courses, gives the audience a glimpse at the creative mind. Sometimes the entertainment value is in getting inside someone elses mind rather than staying within your own. I’ve never seen the movie though, but as a contemporary composer myself, John Zorn is a very large figure in contemporary abstract musicality. Like someone mentioned in textbooks already.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Wobbles the Mind
11/25/2015 at 14:29

I think it’s easier to take a piece of visual art in a random context and appreciate it than it is to do the same with sound. When you initially offered up that piece, I couldn’t have said whether it was a track on an album or a stand-alone piece of music. Frankly, given the age and general disposition that I’ve observed on Oppo, I kind of assumed it was a particularly far-out heavy metal “song.”

With regard to “Funny Games,” I have to wonder if Zorn is trying to do similar things with that piece of music to what the film maker is trying to do with the film: to upset the viewer; to offer up something that is singularly and purposefully outside of any sort of mainstream comfort zone.

There is a Opponutter who goes by the name of Nibby who mentioned a film to me called “Visitor Q.” I watched a few scenes from the film on YouTube. Pretty weird, but also pretty far outside of reality. “Funny Games” is just plain disturbing.

I am curious about some films and examples would be “Funny Games,” “Visitor Q,” or “No Country for Old Men,” or “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” In each case, I became aware of the film, or heard a review, wanted to learn about it, but didn’t want to sit down and watch it. So I read the plot and know a bit about each film, but I am still left wondering why anyone would want to sit down and watch.

I’ll read up a bit on John Zorn. I have a deep musical background and ecclectic taste in music, though what you’ve offered up of John Zorn, I’d have to say, represents a musicality that is very abstract indeed.

Paul Bryant > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/27/2015 at 19:46

Meth overdose? Piercing gone bad? Penis caught in a zipper?

I gotta be close.