Air on the "G" string [Partch]

Regarding the Harry Partch discussion that Johnny Reinhard started in TD
696:

> Somehow the "authenticity" issue is challenged once again with the following
> by Harry Partch in the Enclosures series (p.120 from a letter by Partch to
> Lucie and Larry Marshall).
>

I just wanted to mention that as someone fairly closely involved with
the American Composers Forum in New York and Minnesota, I had the good
fortune to spend part of an afternoon with Phillip Blackburn going over
his ORIGINAL Partch scrapbook which he scanned for "Enclosure III."

Most probably this discussion has taken place on the list before, but it
occured to me that perhaps the videos that the American Composers Forum
is doing as the OTHER "Enclosures" -- I and IV, were, perhaps, the
"real" electronic Partch. Since, as some of our Partch authorities seem
to feel (Jon Szanto, Daniel Wolf, Kraig Grady... certainly Drummond)
that the music shouldn't be "transcribed" to other instruments, or
electronic ones, certainly part of the theatrical experience can be
preserved and disseminated by electronic means through video, etc.
Could computers and the Internet someday create a "virtual Partch"
experience that could be transmitted worldwide and also preserve much of
the theatre??

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Joseph Pehrson