Enclosure Four

• Artist: Harry Partch
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• Release Date: 1997
• Type: Compilation (best of)
• Genre: Rock

Review

Harry Partch was a one-time hobo turned eclectic and original American composer. Especially enamored of the ancient modes of music, Partch became adept at recreating these lost scales and designing instruments to explore the musical possibilities. Partch's creations include Cloud-Chamber Bowls, a collection of glass bowls with a church bells-like sound, and the Diamond Marimba. The Diamond Marimba is only diamond in shape and is designed such that left-hand strokes provide minor chords and right-hand strokes major ones. In working so outside of Western compositional and instrumental convention, Partch invented his own scale of 43 tones. The Chromelodeon is an organ constructed to produce the tones of this crowded octave. Uniquely mated to post-modern notions of dance and performance, Partch composed music for short, theatric films. These are collected on here and on Enclosure One. ~ Tom Schulte, All Music Guide