Post-Indigenous Microtones: Kraig Grady’s Anaphoria Island
The metaphorical island of Anaphoria is fertile territory for microtonal composer and sound artist Kraig Grady. One senses in his ringing, vibrating, just intonations, Native American chants,...
View ArticleSound Artist Kraig Grady: Improvisational Rain
The tuning for "Our Rainy Season" resembles a scale once found among the Chopi people of Mavila, Mozambique, an area that experiences a severe rainy season.
View ArticleBitter Music in Natural Acoustics with Harry Partch
Partch broke with European tradition and forged a new music based on primal integration of sound and speech, using self-designed instruments tuned with natural acoustic resonance or just intonation....
View Articlemapping sound. – Bowed Guitar Tributaries of Los Angeles
Just Intoned tunings sound off, with a 2009 tribute to slain microtonal guitarist Rod Poole, from SASSAS at the Schindler House, Los Angeles.
View ArticleHarry Partch: Genesis of a Musical Outsider
Composer, dishwasher, hobo, fruit picker, sailor, microtonal theorist, instrument builder, writer, visual artist, philosopher, musicologist, iconoclast teacher Harry Partch was one of the first 20th...
View ArticleAdams on Kerouac: The Buddha’s First Noble Truth Unveiled at Big Sur
John Adams' "The Dharma at Big Sur," composed for the opening of LA's Disney Hall, references Jack Kerouac's evocation of the first of Buddha's Four Noble Truths in microtones, celebrating the freedom...
View ArticleThe Gamelan Vibrations of Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison: A World of Music is an intimate portrait of an eclectic composer who traded a fast-paced New York career for a remote cabin in the woods. Harrison, a polymath, iconoclast, writer and...
View ArticleSound of the Earth in Microtones: Harry Partch
Harry Partch, leader of the Geo-Fauvist (wild-earth) composers, and 20th Century pioneer in working systematically with microtonal scales, also built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which...
View Articlemapping sound. – Bowed Guitar Tributaries of Los Angeles
Just Intoned tunings sound off, with a 2009 tribute to slain microtonal guitarist Rod Poole, from SASSAS at the Schindler House, Los Angeles.
View ArticleHarry Partch: Genesis of a Musical Outsider
Composer, dishwasher, hobo, fruit picker, sailor, microtonal theorist, instrument builder, writer, visual artist, philosopher, musicologist, iconoclast teacher Harry Partch was one of the first 20th...
View ArticleAdams on Kerouac: The Buddha’s First Noble Truth Unveiled at Big Sur
John Adams' "The Dharma at Big Sur," composed for the opening of LA's Disney Hall, references Jack Kerouac's evocation of the first of Buddha's Four Noble Truths in microtones, celebrating the freedom...
View ArticleThe Gamelan Vibrations of Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison: A World of Music is an intimate portrait of an eclectic composer who traded a fast-paced New York career for a remote cabin in the woods. Harrison, a polymath, iconoclast, writer and...
View ArticleSound of the Earth in Microtones: Harry Partch
Harry Partch, leader of the Geo-Fauvist (wild-earth) composers, and 20th Century pioneer in working systematically with microtonal scales, also built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which...
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