Tuesday, August 22, 2017

#2576 Harry Partch - The World of Harry Partch

Custom-scale, custom-instrument, high-art nonsense that achieves hypnosis eventually, as it deprograms your ear out of 12-pitch expectation. The three compositions demonstrate an arrogant lack of experience design, a flagrant disregard for ready enjoyment. And yet the acoustic detail of these objects making near-music is rich and unique enough...

Look. Pretentious horseshit mostly, smacking of indulgent laziness, substituting deconstruction for construction. And yet it stumbled into enough intrigue out of sheer blind boldness that I can't help but recommend it to the terminally bored like me 3.5/5

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