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
@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
Now I know where the makers of the game '9: The Last Resort' got the idea for their drum machine - is there ANYONE out there who knows what I'm talking about? :\
It is a shame that we Americans do not honor our truly great, innovative artists like Partch more. Of course, unless you have his idiosyncratic instruments, you can't perform his music.
@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.
First (in my opinion) it isn't music at all! Then you waste your time with this...But if you feel that to be the most important to do for you,ok! Effects in the true music are usefull also ;-)
***** Sorry I don't said TRUE music... Also nobody share pure octave in the world :-) And maybe Harry Partch is interesting for you, but not for me! All microtonal music is enormous waste of time for the composers and for the audititors...
***** Yes, there is a true music and no noise effects instead. I don't think that this is useless, you can ever use it for the movies of horror... No, it is too easy to deforme my proposes-the true music is so rich than it will be never end of variety! The popularity of microtonal music say enought about her utility...
Nothing to do if you don't want to compare microtonal music with classical music in popularity. And more one time you choose the easy way to talking about techno, rock or trance music...Why not about jazz? All of these music styll have place because they don't use microtonal temperament! It is so simple,non?
***** Should stop? Not at all! Only microtonal noise,please ;-) Ok, no joke-I'm curious to know what is your "tone painting" music wich is better than the classic one? Any link,please?
@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.
@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
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).
Why don't you recommend some good music to us "specials", then? Does it freak you out when you hear music that doesn't have a chorus? Unnerving to hear something that uses more than the 4 familiar chords you've been conditioned to recognise as comfortable? You're an idiot.
"this is not concert music" what a genius. i don't think anyone else has come close to such pure dedication to music.
thanks
The man was absolutely brilliant. This most certainly IS music;Unique,fascinating music.
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
@8anvils Still is. Most people who were ahead of their time in the 19-20th centuries still are today.
still love his work!!
It’s beautiful as the first improbable encounter of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a dissecting table !
Guy was a genius
This is great, thanks for posting!
@8anvils
In fact, he was far ahead of OUR time. I think that our society hasn´t reached to understand completely
I want to live in a home like this! a microtonal home :p
how is it john cage is the cornerstone of modern music and alot of harry partch is swept under the rug?
It would have been cool if he had made an album with Rashan Roland Kirk.
Or Terry Riley
+Bobby G ....or The Monkees!
thanks for putting this up!
@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
thanks for uploading this!
Great film.
"...with film it is possible for the eye to explain to the ear and for the ear to fulfill the vision."
wonderful
Now I know where the makers of the game '9: The Last Resort' got the idea for their drum machine - is there ANYONE out there who knows what I'm talking about? :\
It is a shame that we Americans do not honor our truly great, innovative artists like Partch more. Of course, unless you have his idiosyncratic instruments, you can't perform his music.
What a sound that would’ve been if him and Sun ra came together whoa
YES
@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.
Takk!
If only Partch had access to modern DVD technology to record his performances completely.
Original master copy of plectra and percussion dances on eBay right now. Lp1
From Lurkmoar
First (in my opinion) it isn't music at all! Then you waste your time with this...But if you feel that to be the most important to do for you,ok! Effects in the true music are usefull also ;-)
***** Sorry I don't said TRUE music... Also nobody share pure octave in the world :-)
And maybe Harry Partch is interesting for you, but not for me! All microtonal music is enormous waste of time for the composers and for the audititors...
***** Yes, there is a true music and no noise effects instead. I don't think that this is useless, you can ever use it for the movies of horror... No, it is too easy to deforme my proposes-the true music is so rich than it will be never end of variety! The popularity of microtonal music say enought about her utility...
Nothing to do if you don't want to compare microtonal music with classical music in popularity. And more one time you choose the easy way to talking about techno, rock or trance music...Why not about jazz? All of these music styll have place because they don't use microtonal temperament! It is so simple,non?
***** Should stop? Not at all! Only microtonal noise,please ;-) Ok, no joke-I'm curious to know what is your "tone painting" music wich is better than the classic one? Any link,please?
Ok, it's only blà-blà if you don't have any link...
@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.
Tom Waits' brought me here
Same!
2:51 6:31 7:28 needs these for a project sorry good parts though too :D
Wow him and “sun ra” are very similar
Gimme Danger documentary brought me here
:)
"Death in Barstow" the Residents
"All his clothes were burned up.
And his thighs were red."
Time capsule .
@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
indeed--it is my opinion that ives' compositional skill trumps the other two's.
gen·ius
ˈjēnyəs/Submitnoun1.
exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability.
Am I the only one who thinks he sounds like Orson Welles?
Yes! You are the only one who is a genius. Be proud of yourself
umm he created a 43 tone scale....try doing that!
Did I hear the neighbours banging on the wall?
эк..какой важный мужик! He thinks he is god..and he definitely is!
I don't think so...I prefer true gods like Bach or Mozart!
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).
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A grown child playing with his home made “like a bongo” - of course, the wannabe “specials” will call him a genius.....oh hum.
Why don't you recommend some good music to us "specials", then? Does it freak you out when you hear music that doesn't have a chorus? Unnerving to hear something that uses more than the 4 familiar chords you've been conditioned to recognise as comfortable?
You're an idiot.