the music of harry partch part1

1968 San Diego KPBS-TV documentary called The Music of Harry Partch. Partch shows off his instruments and gives a performance of Daphne of the Dunes conducted by Thomas Nee.

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Music

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• harry
• partch

[nicodagger]

Partch was a visionary and a genius.

[fillspekter]

eh

arguably so

but pierre schaeffer in france was fucking with turntables before cage. but, i still dont think either of them really contributed aesthetically to the creation of hiphop. you think grand master flash knew about cages whole body work? no. he knew about funk records and turntables.

[RealAudioNetwork]

Ahhh 240p... We meet again... >=C

[haloforgenatic]

I love Harry Partch's music

[tablatom]

I went to a concert of his music performed in 2002.

Performed on his insrtuments.

I loved it but i couldn't stop laughing.

I was crying with laughter for 2 hours. People sitting near by were getting annoyed with me.Lol.

I was really impressed with the musicians for 2 reasons.

1. how do you learn music with so many notes, incredible.

2. how did they not laugh and pull funny faces while playing?

[TehCthulhu]

@fillspekter

Because clearly, all that matters in music is who contributed aesthetically to the creation of hiphop. Fuck all this creativity, ingenuity, and experimentation with scales. If there wasn't a generic beat and someone rhythmically talk it's just a bunch of pretentious bullshit.

[lsasm123]

that guy is related to me. he's my grandfathers cousin. my moms last name is Partch

[cozymonk]

My musician dad recommended him when I pointed out that the octave scale is actually infinite and not just twelve integers. And said he invented his own octave scale of 43 integers. When I first heard it, I was like, "wtf? this doesn't sound like music. it sounds like the stuff you hear on college radio when a bunch of students drop acid and bang their head on a piano." but as I listen to it more, it makes more and more sense! Although some of his "notes" sound so similar to one another.

[michaelwiese]

I had the good fortune when I was 12 to visit his studio about a movie theater in Champaign Illinois and the University of Illinois. He invited me back and he let me bang on all the instrument. This experience, I believe, was what in part, led me to be study and play Balinese gamelan.

[GPLguitar]

@Tabla461 yes thats what i realized

[maynrdjkeenan]

This guy is fucking amazing.

[amg602]

the genius part isn't so much about his songs or compositions. It's the fact that he recognized that there are more tones that need to be incorporated into the scale system. This doesn't mean much if you are not a musician, but he was a mathematical genius. An Albert Einstein of sound and vibration.