Warren Gilson on recording Partch

I forgot to put the Tuning List into my automatic loop for updates from
Corporeal Meadows, so here's some info that went out over the weekend.

>From: Nick Weaver <jnweaver@facstaff.wisc.edu>
>Subject: UW-Madison News Release--Recorded sound conference
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/13/99
>CONTACT: Don Johnson, (608) 262-0076
>
>MUSIC LIBRARY TO HOST RECORDED SOUND CONFERENCE
>
>MADISON -- More than 100 audiophiles -- enthusiasts who collect
>and study sound recordings -- will come to the University of
>Wisconsin-Madison May 19-22 for a conference hosted by the Mills
>Music Library.
>
>The annual conference of the Association for Recorded Sound
>Collections at the Edgewater Hotel will feature lectures by
>several prominent ARSC members, including current faculty and
>former students of UW-Madison. Among the highlights:
>____________________________________
>Thursday, May 20:
>
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>-- Madison resident Warren Gilson will speak about experimental
>composer Harry Partch's time on campus from 1944-47. Partch
>gained notoriety for developing unique instruments such as the
>Diamond Marimba and the Chromelodeon I. Partch's book, Genesis
>of a Music, was published by the UW Press in 1949.
>
>-- Members of the Madison software company, Sonic Foundry, will
>discuss their widely used music-editing software, Sound Forge.

A friend of the Meadows, Mr. Tom Hamer, was the person who let me in on
this; he will be helping the with Sound Forge presentation. Tom says that
the Gilson talk is open to the public. I'm working on getting a transcript
of the talk, but this is good stuff: Gilson was the first person to record
Partch, and is reponsible for the original acetate recordings of Barstow,
U.S. Highball, and some of the Li Po that Partch recorded.

Actual info about the conference can be found at:

<http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Music/arsc.htm>

Bye again,
Jon
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Jonathan M. Szanto : Corporeal Meadows - Harry Partch, online.
jszanto@adnc.com : http://www.corporeal.com/
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