BECK - "HARRY PARTCH"

Music video for the Beck song "Harry Partch"

http://www.beck.com

Footage taken from the 1977 Stephen Pouliot documentary "The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch"

Footage transmogrified by Josh Rachbach

http://www.brainspraymedia.com

Taken from Beck.com:

A thruway from the external to the internal, in tribute to California bred composer Harry Partch's concept of 'Corporeality'--- the integration of the body with all art forms. The song uses a 43 tone scale in reference to Partch's innovations with alternate tonalities. A peregrination across disparate territory to ascertain an unassumed frame of reference.
LYRICS (c) Beck 2009

I'm wandering, wandering
wither I go...

Quadrangularis Reversum Kithara
Zoomoozophone Zymo-xyl
Mazda Marimba Zoroastrian Z
Chromolodeon Cloud Chamber Bowl
a portmanteau of color and chrome
the curse of the crow
the nimbus is null

suitcase sky and you're marching down
your ticker tape and your old parade
your old grey jacket is hanging in threads
your grizzled brow furrowed in the sun

watch your back
and stack your hack
your mailman is punching back
your train goes click clack clack

make your orchestra out of the debris of the evening
fishing out from the gutter all your gold and grey graffiti

I crack the frozen ice
a 100 bells chime
a 1000 birds fall on a regiment of lies
chrome crack and rattle shadow
shake the bell tree
through rack and rain and ruin
wither I go

The sound becomes my body and my body is the sound
The sound becomes my body and my body is the sound
The sound becomes my body and my body is the sound

from chicago to barstow, o barstow

everybody needs a shopping bag
and a world war for an encore

21/3 X 21/4 = 21/3+1/4 = 23/12+4/12 = 27/12

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[Sweet00th]

THIS IS MADNESS

[TehCthulhu]

I know I'm going to piss some people off here; but this is equivalent to writing a song called "Bach" and then farting into a microphone for ten minutes.

I think anyone with a handful of synthesizers, a trace of musical talent, a computer, and some time to kill could have produced this.

[rodeomonkey84]

@maxismax1 no! this wouldn't BE here without beck / the fiery furnaces / radiohead!

eyah!

[maxismax1]

@rodeomonkey84 You chat bollocks. This wouldn't be hear without Partch.

[kenrubes]

this is relatively brilliant. Very few people have both pop song writing skills and experimental music compositional chops, as well.....very few.

Beck utterly impressed me with this..it's at times harmonically and rhythmically very complex.

The questionables who post things like "this is horrible" or "Partch wouldn't like this" or whatever other inane comments they offer up.......I would love to see what they've done in life, thus far.

[treinspore]

7:25 - 7:35 AWE YEAH

[rodeomonkey84]

Partch suuuuuuuucks compared to this

beck just basically out Partch'd parch and made it INSANELY FUN

people pretend there is music like this out there but there isn't really much at all

stuff like zappa or residents SUCKS compared to this

and people think they are so good or fun but they really are just bullplop

BECK IS THE REAL DEAL

and this is SO good!!!!!!!

wish he'd make more like this even a full album

just twisting all over the place but being really fun too and variety not shit!

[xis10ce]

@chatzimcfee wikipedia isn't the official "mainstream" declarer, mainstream means everyone and their grandma knows who they are, like ozzy, madonna, kanye west... doesn't have anything to do with pop, that's the MAIN stream (as the word's etymology infers). most ppl i meet don't know who beck is by name, but they all know "loser"of course. i frustratingly rarely find others that are as familiar with him as me, but he's got a strong, cult-like following, and i like that better.

[chatzimcfee]

@xis10ce I'm not going to argue with you anymore after this. taken from wikipedia "In March 1994, Geffen released Beck's major label debut, Mellow Gold. The album, created with Bong Load's Rothrock and Schnapf, as well as Carl Stephenson, turned Beck into a mainstream success." You don't know what mainstream means. you are confusing it with pop. mainstream doesn't mean pop.

[xis10ce]

@chatzimcfee he's sold a few records, and i LOVE me some beck, but he's not "mainstream", like britney spears, or justin bieber, or j. lo, do you even know what that word means? i'm not the one dreaming, i think you need to be in touch...with a dictionary. and look up "mainstream".