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Generative Music from the Untitled Microtonal Gardening Game.

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ekmeles:


Charlotte Mundy soprano · Elisa Sutherland mezzo-soprano
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek mezzo-soprano · Steven Bradshaw tenor
Jeffrey Gavett baritone & artistic director · Steven Hrycelak bass

premieres 2022

May 27, 2022 
The Crypt at the Church of the Intercession

Live recording by Craig Slonczewski

Ekmeles - Harmony for six voices

Headphones suggested.

Music composition and performance: James Rouvelle
Images/Video: Maya+Rouvelle

This music is derived from a 10 note scale ("dekany") inspired by the work of Erv Wilson.

The fundamental tone is 432Hz.

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8f / a lattice of unplanned measurements

the first time the Harry Partch Ensemble played outside US shores was for the 1980 Berlin Festival, Fur Augen und Ohren, in a production by Kenneth Gaburo, conducted by Danlee Mitchell, choreographed by Mary Lou Blankenburg. This live recording was made by RIAS (Radio in the American Sector)with mics on a dummy head. It must be heard on headphones to recreate the experience. A studio recording from the same tour made in Cologne is available on innova's Enclosure Five: Harry Partch. The production was considered the fullest realization of Partch's concept of Corporeality, with all art forms fused into a body-centered whole.

Harry Partch: The Bewitched (binaural stereo)

The Premiere recording of the *Complete* Windsong score. In late 1957, Partch moved to the Old Town section of Chicago to work on the first of three projects with filmmaker Madeline Tourtelot. It was a true collaboration, too, with the composer writing sections of music that were timed exactly to the film edits. Partch performed all the ‘cues’ himself, as the music was, "Conceived and scored for a single instrumentalist on all parts, through multiple recording techniques, with no more than three simultaneous parts at any time (with) brief exceptions, that is, a first recording with two additions."

At the end of the score, Partch proudly proclaims, “Written, rehearsed, recorded, edited and copied at 1801 North Orleans St., Chicago, January 16 to March 2, 1958,” though no one has ever heard the entire piece as he wrote it. Even though the score bears meticulous notes as to which passages match what imagery, the actual soundtrack often differs from the written page. The full version is recorded here for the first time.

15 Windsong

https://www.innova.mu/albums/harry-partch/enclosure-ii

Harry Partch: By The Rivers Of Babylon

Etude 1034 for piano & 2 analogue synthesisers(120ct20-3)

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Etude 1048 for piano & 3 analogue synthesisers(28oct20-1,2,2)

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Etude 1081 for piano & polyphonic analogue synthesiser(3dec20-5.3,6)

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Etude 1090 for piano, viola & 2 analogue synthesisers(13dec20-4,5) 
I met her in a hologram
in 1964
She wasn't real
She didn't squeal
and I retreated from the scene
then in 1967
I think I might have seen
what might have been
my ultimate dream of bliss consciousness
but that's all in the past
as I never even asked
her to reply to my her smile
on the staircase

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Etude 1091 for viola & 2 analogue synthesisers(14dec20-2,2)

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Music based on an Erv Wilson's Hexany and Dekany scales, recorded and performed by James Rouvelle. Videos with visual art by Lili Maya click on the links below.

A nice zombie who honors the moment does not allow himself to be terrorized by the future and the past. While two guardian spirits shield him from good advice.

All tracks and Images by Heinz Kobalt  and Artificial Intelligence.

8f / a lattice of unplanned measurements

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