The Hermetic Organ

The Hermetic Organ
Live album by
ReleasedJune 19, 2012
RecordedDecember 9, 2011
VenueSt. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, New York City
GenreImprovised music
Length36:25
LabelTzadik TZ 7399
ProducerJohn Zorn
John Zorn chronology
Templars: In Sacred Blood
(2012)
The Hermetic Organ
(2012)
Rimbaud
(2012)

The Hermetic Organ is an album by John Zorn, consisting of a single live improvisation on the Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ of St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University, which was released on Tzadik Records in June 2012. The performance was held at 11 PM on the evening of December 9, 2011, which Zorn has noted was a full moon, as an encore to a "Composer Portrait" ensemble performance of his works held earlier that night at the Miller Theatre. It is the first release by Zorn to exclusively document his solo improvisations on the organ, his first instrument. In 2014, Zorn released a second volume of improvisations, The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2.