Beck on Partch

http://www.beck.com/

He says: "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. "

I don't know his work, but he's a popular rock musician. I can't get the Partch references in the music. Your results may vary.

Prent Rodgers

Umm, if a frame of reference is unassumed, how do you know when you have ascertained it?

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Subject: [MMM] Beck on Partch

http://www.beck.com/

He says: "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. "

I don't know his work, but he's a popular rock musician. I can't get the Partch references in the music. Your results may vary.

Prent Rodgers

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I love Beck. He's not a rock musician as much as an independent
singer-songwriter type. He has a reputation for mixing different genres
together in his works... One song will have a banjo and an electronic drum
beat and a horn section and some synthesizers and a funk guitar all
coexisting at the same time, for example. He's pretty popular and his work
is pretty accessible.

But I can't get the Harry Partch song working though, and I'm not sure how
to get it going.

-Mike

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM, prentrodgers <prentrodgers@...>wrote:

>
>
> http://www.beck.com/
>
> He says: "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. "
>
> I don't know his work, but he's a popular rock musician. I can't get the
> Partch references in the music. Your results may vary.
>
> Prent Rodgers
>
>
>

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Beck rocks. I have all his albums, and just happenned to pop
Odelay in my car last week. -Carl

At 10:36 AM 11/19/2009, you wrote:
>http://www.beck.com/
>
>He says: "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. "
>
>I don't know his work, but he's a popular rock musician. I can't get
>the Partch references in the music. Your results may vary.
>
>Prent Rodgers
>

At 11:37 AM 11/19/2009, you wrote:
>I love Beck. He's not a rock musician

Of course he is.

-Carl

At 11:37 AM 11/19/2009, you wrote:
>I love Beck. ... He's pretty popular and his work
>is pretty accessible.

Plenty of Beck's music is as 'inaccessible' as it comes. What
makes it popular is the strength and constancy of his message /
artistic direction, his prolificity, charisma, and image, and
the high level of production on everything he does.

Plenty of microtonalists have complained over the years about
the supposed naivety of the listening public but the truth is,
they couldn't sell bubblegum pop, either.

-Carl