Re: [tuning] Air on the "G" string [Partch]

Joseph!
One could just film versions of the pieces which is a better medium than the
"transcription"
to just audio. As far as being first, isn't "The Dreamer that remains" the first music video!
IMHO the question as to who did what first is too circumstantial to really mean much. As most
works of art are unique, they all can be considered the first on some level, it all depends on
what someone considers important. Notice such things are always so noun oriented as opposed to
verb. like you don't hear someone say such and such is the first one to have this type of
change in the texture, or emotional levels.

Joseph Pehrson wrote:

> 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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