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| Rotate the Body in All Its Planes |
Harry Partch
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Harry Partch
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9:00 |
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| Music Studio Harry Partch |
Harry Partch
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Harry Partch
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17:47 |
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| US Highball |
Harry Partch
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Harry Partch
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26:43 |
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| Windsong |
Harry Partch
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Harry Partch
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16:52 |
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NOW SUPERSEDED BY ENCLOSURE 8 ON DVD
This 74-minute VHS videotape (NTSC/U.S. format) includes a 12-page booklet containing Partch’s own written introductions to these films.
* Rotate the Body in All Its Planes (1961): a study of graceful, dance-like gymnastics movements with specially composed music by Partch (9 minutes).
* Music Studio—Harry Partch (1958): Partch takes the viewer on a tour of his Chicago music studio, and demonstrates his microtonal instruments. Includes his description of how the sound track for Windsong was made. Check out Partch's hand-painted window curtains and studio decorations! (17 minutes).
* U.S. Highball (1958; completed 1968): Partch and his ensemble perform a dramatized account of riding the rails during the Depression on a transcontinental hobo trip to Chicago (24 minutes).
* Windsong (1958): the ancient Greek legend of Daphne and Apollo, transported to Lake Michigan. Partch's sound track for this film later became known as "Daphne of the Dunes" (17 minutes).
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American Record Guide
"The Innova video tape is of immense value for anyone interested in Partch . . . Because Partch considered the visual aspects of performance almost as important as the aural ones, I think this tape is the most important of all these releases. Unlike most VHS tapes, this one comes with a 12-page booklet of notes to further increase its value."
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by Carl Baumann
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Musicweb International
These films provide an all-but-unique insight, a window into Partch’s world of corporeality. More than that, they afford us the rare privilege of observing, however briefly, the workings of a Music that is, in the words of the legendary Monty Python, "something completely different". If you’ve never even heard of Harry Partch, then, my friend, go forth and banish thine ignorance!
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by Paul Serotsky
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