Harry Partch - Music Studio - Part 1 of 2

[Melechkibitzer]

2:51 6:31 7:28 needs these for a project sorry good parts though too :D

[jfk1971]

what about raymond scott

[piano12161770]

how is it john cage is the cornerstone of modern music and alot of harry partch is swept under the rug?

[nonthere]

@piano12161770 John Cage was overrated and seemed to be interested in making statements rather than music. Partch and Nancarrow really did find something original that will last with time.

[8anvils]

Harry was far ahead of his time.

[tayloreh]

@8anvils Still is. Most people who were ahead of their time in the 19-20th centuries still are today.

[Mrowlshoes]

@8anvils I don't know if time is right word for this guy. you can give people all the time in the world and they aren't going to do anything like this. unless your name is moondog.

[pakete]

@8anvils

In fact, he was far ahead of OUR time. I think that our society hasn´t reached to understand completely

[jing479]

Great film.

[TouchingYou]

@Accisma You can't call someone an "ass" without explaining HOW or WHY they are one. (Unless you're 9 years old and don't understand maturity. WHY am I an ass?)

[kingquinnerz89]

@TouchingYou You're an ass.

[TouchingYou]

@kingquinnerz89 Your extremely INARTICULATE "rebuttal" ironically proves that you, my ignorant friend, are the ass.

(Even Sarah Palin makes actual arguments unlike your jr high ad hominem insults. You couldn't think of ANYTHING smarter to write? Exactly.)

[Darkovith]

wonderful

[justinmeditation]

"...with film it is possible for the eye to explain to the ear and for the ear to fulfill the vision."

[TouchingYou]

Personally, I'm consistently disappointed by Partch.

EX: odd percussion is the laziest and easiest "new instruments" to make.

EX: his compositions are not that radical. (Some sound like ordinary african tribal / drum stuff, for instance.)

I want to hear music that sounds like NOTHING ELSE on earth.

Any recommendations?

8:50 above is GREAT!

[bignorwich]

Put a donk on it?

[pepsimax29]

Hahahaha! Just dribbled everywhere when I read that! :o)

[sqrrl777]

YES

[phatmusic]

umm he created a 43 tone scale....try doing that!

[TouchingYou]

@phatmusic ... YOU can create a 95-tone scale tomorrow. ANYONE can. Just get even more microtonal. I love microtonal music. I just don't pretend it's hard to do.

[DarkShroom]

@TouchingYou real instruments have been with us for too long to really find anything that unique, computers are probabally our best bet for somthing crazy now, being spoiled by modern technology has probabally desensitized us to how different these instruments would have sounded when partch was playing with them

[TouchingYou]

I don't think that's correct.

EX: the Daxaphone COULD'VE been invented in the 1700s, but wasn't invented until the last 30 years.

And it sounds as crazy as anything electronic you can think of!

I think Partch was more creative than a Bob Dylan, but less creative than a Hans Reichel.

That's all.

[DarkShroom]

@TouchingYou wow that dax thingy does sounds interesting, still it uses a contact microphone so in a way it's part of the big expansion of sound that happened around the turn of last century, amplification and is therefore electronic.

Thanks for the info anyway i love weird instruments and had never heard of that thing before.

PS: Dylan is a legened

[3minutefilms]

@DarkShroom Dylan is a legend? yeah but he was also a extractive exploiter of others style and music, they made it he made the money. Hell i Listen, but I don't fool myself to think that it is

[TouchingYou]

@DarkShroom ..I agree Dylan is a legend. Just like the virgin birth, Sarah Palin, and Reagan: A FICTION.

[kingquinnerz89]

My God TouchingYou! You're so pretentious it's not even offense it's hilarious!:)

[TouchingYou]

@kingquinnerz89 There's no substance to your rebuttal. If i'm wrong about something, you need to explain WHY I'm wrong.

[catgumart]

In addition to admiring Partch, I like the tone & style of this old documentary I love how it begins showing those 50's people playing stick ball & then it shows Harry Partch with his pipe looking out @ the neighborhood while the creative,rhythmic music plays! Partchs music makes my mouth water & somehow brings more value & feeling to sounds,after listening to him if I play guitar I can feel the music more powerfully, It makes me respect the simple thud of my hand on the wood of the guitar

[HailChaos]

well said, mate!

[ZOOOOOOOOOA9]

Thanks for posting. In 93' ? - i went to a concert of his music with the amazing instruments at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. Became a convert then.

[kheitny]

thanks for posting this!

i have been a partch fan for a long time.

i have an original Partch pressed lp.

(the music of harry partch the exact lp shown at 2:00)

it is one of my prized possessions.

(green and white marbled mono vinyl)

'same content as the CRI reissue

[splifford]

test

[OctopiRocks]

He is one of the most genius musicians that ever lived but he hasn't been seen by everyone because it's not conventional music. The same can be said for John Cage even though they are some of the greatest musicians.

[defdeezy]

john cage is very well-known, though. partch gets even less credit than ives, and of the three mavericks he (partch) is, for me, the most important (though cage gets points for most playful, i suppose, and ives for strongest actual musical output).

[toztizok]

though ives is brilliant, if his music is stronger than those other two remains subjective.

[defdeezy]

indeed--it is my opinion that ives' compositional skill trumps the other two's.

[fkntoothpaste]

I agree Eyesnwheels.

How about that ear? Isn't it amazing?

[ofeyesnwheels]

"this is not concert music" what a genius. i don't think anyone else has come close to such pure dedication to music.

thanks