A Portrait of Harry Partch

You mean you're one. A. I knew that I was going to be a music and

when I was part of the dramatic not great by anyone I'm going to be completely free. There was no there was no path for me. I was a hobo

for roughly three years off and on because I always took a job if I could find one. This is mostly during the Depression. It was one of the greatest experiences to be very carrying a pack and buy a nice beautiful book and find sticks for a fire and build a fire. Be careful not to start a fire as you go on. You come into a situation where everyone is a stranger and you have to make a decision very fast and. You can say. OK my pack while I go into town and just suddenly like that. And I have never been let down never to friend friendship to defend me intent. And I remember a couple of guys they had suddenly had a quarrel they were in the middle of a railroad bridge on the mic and threw their packs into the river and walked up to the director. Of course extraordinarily.

Individualistic people. That's why they're old. They cannot conform to the strictures of a city. You never find them. You just think oh I'm talking about the oppression which is what I know best about. I've got of people I've changed. In other words what I'm saying is that that there are the same kinds of people of the day. They are the same kinds of people who go out in the road and society and say I'm going to. I'm going to do everything by myself I can remember taking a blanket out on the American or and saying oh it's like heaven. Thank Heaven I don't have to go tonight. And thank heaven I can build my own and buy something is cheaper and infinitely better. And look at my stupid hat. You know you

got it this morning. Well I came back and run and gun. I think my music has a body feeling about it. I care what the instruments look like they are their products and they have great they have to be inspiring all by themselves. Man the man who played that instrument is

the one and if I am anything is bad about it look like an amateur California prune picker. I've never had the feeling I was just as you are. Three since 1938 and these three are probably the first going to have been built in the last fifteen hundred years because the lyre the instrument the professional musician the liar of Orpheus. Had

three strains of the traditional number of strings like eight but the worry experimented with the card. One of the very famous experimenters Timothy is from the smart place. Increased the number of stars string from for the crime of bringing the Spartans from their city. He had failed to realize that to dream of change one thing to act upon the dream is another. My kids are I have. A nice thing might have happened to me in ancient Greece. Like when someone does something different these days we simply don't have the example.

I recall going to AA for the very first money. The very first one I think it was in 1919 it was a new organization. And. A. Great body lady sitting below. And. I went to another concert in the same city. Now there are but if we aren't concerned about our youth we're headed straight to a dead end three or. Four.

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Once upon a time there was a little boy.

And. On the wall of the projection room of a company specializing in children's films. Our inscription for appreciation. The children had drawn and painted the gifts and the one that I remember it so I didn't write it down I didn't because. I. Knew. Well enough. Then. I thought of it as myself. But once upon a time there was a little boy and he went out because that's exactly what I did. When I was pretty young. I've been going outside ever since. I went outside and there are big gray. You know things. And. Then later I went outside and I guess I'm still doing that. I'm not a little mourning. You're. The great difference between the.

Generation you forty or fifty years ago and the present you as a what. By my walk across the Brooklyn Bridge or the Manhattan Bridge where I sob seeing signs of obscene drying constantly and I walk down the aisle and beach here where the star we live. And. There's nothing but pee. I'm never coming out. I can't keep saying I forgot

totally. I remembered I remembered until I was in my 20s. But. Of course the Rock of Ages and you're my God. These things. Sure I could write them out but you know you're a Yankee of them and of course. There are a lot of them and lots of Mexican things because. During the Depression one was put up on it constantly. Nobody was writing and nobody was doing an unfinished symphony. But there was a tremendous amount of creativity. Now when I think creative I mean I don't mean poetry or literature art music or any of the things that we think of as the final act. I'm just talking about everyday living like primitive man.

He didn't consider something to be fine I think of it as fine art. But he didn't on the farm. They have a live shot from a viewer at the ranch. When I was 5 or 6 without somebody like your thumb I was hammering a nail I sent them an. OK poster. There you. Can you get level OK. It.

Must be kept safe. You can say that a couple cavity are that no resonant tone and yet very effective because the acoustics are sexy. Nature is what I go for trail and I feel the stream and I want to get a drink of water. As a matter of fact that you're exactly right you would say they would cross the stream they were all for steak and I don't want to just write down and there are the ones who went and got a cup before they get drinking water. Mark Anthony again. Sorry. Terry and I are very close emotionally and artistically. I remember him telling

us that we not only had to caress the instrument. To be dramatically correct but also to rate the instrument to when the situation calls for it. Other composers in this century have invented new instruments and they looked outside the culture to examine the rituals of non-Western man Harry Dundas. But he's also brought up a tuning system that gives a complete tonal gamut of dissonance and a consonant. Build orchestra of instruments and a multimedia presentation to hear. I can't get it up that that. And.

The curious fact that the wine and liquor bottle will give approximately the same frequency under each brand name for example known as MASH but brittle cream sherry. And if you run if you don't get exactly the right tone here on the right here simply ask your friend to save your ode to heaven hell are whatever bottle. Our own name because of the Southern Rock artillery casings

hanging here. Better out of them. Than. Reading young men's bodies on the battle field. I can remember my brother and me. He was 10 years older but we watched them from Baghdad and then the Gulf and I was always part of the bad men not that I didn't have any real reason except that the idea of retribution was a good idea. But. That. Whatever they're down here they were being trapped hunted and trapped. And I had been my father for them. How about anyone who is any out there. It takes me back and hearing right through the past 16. My earliest memory and I don't remember

that I remember. Back. In the. Early giving like that. I was a child in every town in Arizona and I recall many benches along the plank and looked over. They were in line for the post for you. Dunder read your mail. In front of the little bank. You know that every summer I was dying for P. Comfort. By today there are by. Around the post over. You like.

Iraq and other public building. Even in the Big Board right now. People one to improve with a little or nothing. Now is that right. I would to the car. I think France and Spain are mere I think it is. And no I'm not saying that anything

but. The name. I am. A.

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