Harry Partch: Enclosure One & 2 Docs

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Harry Partch (1901-1974), pursued a rigourously creative alternative path from that of many Western composers. He is sometimes described perfunctorily as the "43-tone-scale Corporeal man" who developed new instruments to suit his desire to tune to just intonation. But, as these films demonstrate, his contributions to American music were far broader and more interesting.
Music Studio follows Harry inside his Chicago studio, where he demonstrates his instruments and then "performs" excerpts of his score for Windsong, a retelling of the Daphne and Apollo episode, on which he and Madeline Tourtelot were working at the time.
Windsong has the feel of 1950s experimental film -- a touch of Maya Deren in the sandy Lake Michigan-side setting -- with the protagonists (the director and her cameraman) in informal dress scampering around the hills in a somewhat abstract rendition of the tale. Some fine images and the beauty of Partch's only true film score overcomes the artistically unrealized intended symbolism.
U.S. Highball, is "a musical account of a transcontinental hobo tripo" that he took from San Francisco to Chicago in 1941. The black & white portions are of a studio performance, with effective, even humorous close-ups of the players, many of whom speak the hoboes' lines. Interspersed are color scenes of trains, railways, and sites to be seen along the journey. Once the film's conceit is accepted, the alternating sections project the effect of the piece successfully; the shadowing in the interior shots contrast wonderfully with the outdoor panoramas.
Rotate the Body is an odd duck, fusing sequences of gymnasts tumbling (and doing other things) with a soundtrack based on partch's then-new theater work Revelation in the Courthouse Park; it was in part a retort to choreographers who refused to include tumberls in Revelation.

Enclosure One
Four historic short color films made by Partch in collaboration with Madeline Tourtelot:
Rotate the Body in All Its Planes (1961) 9 minutes
Music Studio—Harry Partch (1958) 17 minutes
U.S. Highball (1958; completed 1968) 24 minutes
Windsong (1958) 17 minutes

The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch (1972) Stephan Pouliot & Betty Freeman 27:46

Harry Partch & His Strange Musical Instruments (1989) Walter Simmons 21:07

http://www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80623.pdf

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