Harry Partch - Music Studio - Part 1 of 2

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

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!

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

well said, mate!

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.

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

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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).

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

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