Re: [MMM] Ben Johnston on Partch

Joe!
Here is one of the places that JI shines in that it is an open system
and every single note of Partch's we can add to. I can't imagine any problem
asking most players to play a 3/2 or a 5/4 just to start above any pitch. In
fact many of the Kithara parts have full hexads on many of the remote notes.
Not to mention all the slides these instruments do!!!
I think this reviewer doesn't know what he is talking about. Do you here
a restriction of pitches?

jpehrson2 wrote:

> "With pretuned instruments, like most of Partch's, one is held to a
> gamut of pitches which is strictly limited, sometimes severly so.
> The free soaring in an unlimited world of pitches organized into
> otonal and utonal hexachords linked by common tones or by simple
> interval relations from one sonority to the next is an idea one gets
> from his theories but much less clearly from his music. There is no
> doubt the the world he envisioned is there for the taking by anyone
> with the courage to leave pretuned instruments to a supporting role
> or else use them only in special circumstances in full recognition of
> the straitjacked they impose..."

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
Wed. 8-9 KXLU 88.9 fm

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:

/makemicromusic/topicId_2437.html#2437

***Hi Kraig!

I thought this was all a little "silly" myself... after all, it
entirely depends what one *does* with the materials! Restrictions
can also be good, sometimes...if they even exist...

jp

> Joe!
> Here is one of the places that JI shines in that it is an open
system
> and every single note of Partch's we can add to. I can't imagine
any problem
> asking most players to play a 3/2 or a 5/4 just to start above any
pitch. In
> fact many of the Kithara parts have full hexads on many of the
remote notes.
> Not to mention all the slides these instruments do!!!
> I think this reviewer doesn't know what he is talking about. Do
you here
> a restriction of pitches?
>
> jpehrson2 wrote:
>
> > "With pretuned instruments, like most of Partch's, one is held to
a
> > gamut of pitches which is strictly limited, sometimes severly so.
> > The free soaring in an unlimited world of pitches organized into
> > otonal and utonal hexachords linked by common tones or by simple
> > interval relations from one sonority to the next is an idea one
gets
> > from his theories but much less clearly from his music. There is
no
> > doubt the the world he envisioned is there for the taking by
anyone
> > with the courage to leave pretuned instruments to a supporting
role
> > or else use them only in special circumstances in full
recognition of
> > the straitjacked they impose..."
>
> -- Kraig Grady
> North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
> http://www.anaphoria.com
>
> The Wandering Medicine Show
> Wed. 8-9 KXLU 88.9 fm

Go Jon!

"Jonathan M. Szanto" wrote:

> Joe,
>
> Partch has been dead for over 25 year; Johnston is still alive. Of the two,
> whose music, whose creative output exerts the larger effect on our culture?
> In another 25, 50 years, ask the same question again.
>
>

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
Wed. 8-9 KXLU 88.9 fm

Go Joe!

jpehrson2 wrote:

>
>
> But _Delusion of the Fury_ really seems like the full utilization of
> his potentialities...
>
>

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
Wed. 8-9 KXLU 88.9 fm