News and information about the american composer harry partch and his instruments. While partch built several instruments called adapted guitar i, this is the one he ultimately settled upon. A portrait of instrument builder and microtonal composer harry partch presented through representative work, in a beautiful limited 180g vinyl lp with a 12 page. Experimental musicians celebrate harry partch and his.
Harry partch delusion of fury arrest, trial and judgement by rodrigo navarro. Harry partch on ascending the sinping tower by klippa kloppa. Harry partch june 24, 1901 september 3, 1974 was an american composer, music theorist. The american composer harry partch 19011974 composed in tunings not available on. Harry partch today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of american composer harry partch. Listen to music from harry partch like two studies on ancient greek scales. Harry partch the world of harry partch releases discogs. During the harry partch festival, may 11, 2018, uw celebrates the musical mavericks work with a weekend full of performances both of partch s groundbreaking compositions and of new. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. The harry partch collection, volume 3 licensed to youtube by the orchard music on behalf of new world records. Strange musical instruments never seen before man invents hundreds of them the anarchestra duration. Harry partch 19011974 was one of the most visionary and innovative musical composers of the 20th century, but during the two years that he lived in petaluma, hardly any local residents knew who.
He was one of the first 20thcentury composers in the west to work. And thanks to an initially subpar rocker beef thats blossomed into something going on classic, harry patch has also served as a reminder of the life of composer harry partch. Ms 7207 us, 1969 partchtheworldofharrypartchrelease833758 00. The world of harry partch 1969 full album youtube terry riley don cherry.
The scenarios of the three pieces are a typically odd partch jumble of greek myth, surreal humour happy birthday to you crops up in the middle of one of them and snatches of texts by rimbaud. Harry partch 19011974 was an iconoclastic american composer and instrument inventor with a passion for integrating musicians, actors, and. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation. All six strings are tuned to harry s 11, though not necessarily in the same octave.