Harry Partch

高瞻遠(yuǎn)足的作曲家、音樂(lè)理論家暨樂(lè)器發(fā)明家哈里．帕殊 (1901-1974) 成長(zhǎng)于美國(guó)加洲，深受中國(guó)搖籃曲及粵劇影響的他父母為來(lái)華美國(guó)傳教士 (他甚至宣稱(chēng)母親是在中國(guó)懷上他的)。

帕殊反傳統(tǒng)的樂(lè)器只有三套完整的還存于世。最近，香港首次模仿重造這些發(fā)明，有些是依照原來(lái)的藍(lán)本來(lái)改造，有些則是改裝過(guò)的中國(guó)樂(lè)器。
來(lái)感受一下嶄新的音樂(lè)發(fā)明如何重新定義21世紀(jì)音樂(lè)！
by "Blue" Gene Tyranny
Harry Partch grew up in Tombstone, AZ, and was taught by his family to play the clarinet, harmonica, reed organ, guitar. A self-taught composer, he rode the rails during the early Depression years. Partch was an original theorist on tuning systems, wrote the extraordinary book Genesis of a Music (1949), and an instrument designer and builder from 1938 onwards. His operas, in micro-tonal tunings played on his self-made instruments, were often designed for performers who would take multiple roles, eg. singer-instrumentalist-dancer. His songs were often open as to vocal pitch, pre-cursors of the New Narrative Opera. He wrote several innovative filmscores, and a number of collections came out in the late '90s: four volumes on CRI label, and 3-CD set Enclosure Five on Innova.