The Partch Religion ?

Check it for yourself:

+ There is a Founder, who is the prophet for the Ultimate Truth
+ There is the Ultimate Truth and Ground of all things (namely, Just
Intonation)
+ There are the Disciples and many would-be initiates
+ There is a corpus of Sacred Writings
+ There is a book containing The Teachings
+ There are the Sacred Relics made by the Founder himself
+ There are ritual meetings to celebrate the Mysteries
+ There are Orthodox, Liberal, and Puritan Theologians
+ There are rival sister religions, and ancient pagan cults
+ There are detractors and persecutions of the faithful
+ There are also heretics who deny either the approved liturgy or the
validity of some crucial dogma
+ There are atheists who don't believe in the Ultimate Ground of all things
(let alone in the Master)
+ Item plus, there are skeptics who think that both believers and
unbelievers are right (or wrong)
+ There are converts and apostates, who have either found or lost their
faith in both the Ultimate Truth or its Prophet
+ There are also sympathizers and curious, who would like to know more
about the Master and the Ultimate Truth of all things
+ There are scientists who despise this religion and call it numerology
+ Item there are other scientists who uphold that this religion and science
are not at odds
+ There are zealots and counter-revolutionaries whose main objective is the
destruction of the hegemony of the 12-tone-equal-temperament, and who will
pragmatically ally with the faithful just to undermine the
12-tone-equal-temperament status quo.
+ Then there is the great and indifferent World at large, who immerse in
the darkness of 12-tone-equal -temperament doesn't even know about any of
the above (or care to know)

There are also real religions ... :)

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The following programmes are on the Concertzender, Holland.

Wo 11-6, 19.00. Gaudeamus. Giacinto Scelsi:
1. Hymnos 2. Anahit 3. Konx-om-pax 4. Pfhat

Vr 13-6, 20.00. Ensemble Farabi. Kunst- en volksmuziek uit de Balkan
en Turkije, gearrangeerd of gecomponeerd door Wouter Swets.
Kamil Abbas (gijak, viool, rawap, zang), Joost Rekveld (ney, dap,
dap-diora, davul, rawap), Roel Sluis (zang, dap, kaval), Yanni
Kyriakidhis (ud), Magnus Robb (viool) en Wouter Swets (synthesizer).
Opnamen van 6-10-1996 in het Teylers Museum Haarlem (Huygens-Fokker
concert) en 8-2-1997 in de Bachzaal Amsterdam.

Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl

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Concertzender, woensdag 20-8, 21.00-23.00:
Concertopnamen A. 4. Raphael Reina: Drag on claustrophobia.
B. Frances-Marie Uitti (cello) & Jonathan Harvey (computer).

Improvisaties. Opname van 9 mei in Zaal de Unie, Rotterdam.


Concertzender, vrijdag 22-8, 20.00-21.30:
Concertopnamen. Het Ensemble Samarkand vertolkt hofmuziek uit Oezbekistan,
oftewel de 'shasmakam'. De muziek is gebaseerd op de Arabisch-Perzische
toonschalen. Opname van 27 maart in het Soeterijntheater, Amsterdam.

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