An Array of Utopian Flowers
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LA River Revitalization: The Story of Master Plan Gone Awry
Posted on April 2, 2021 | 1 Comment - Biotonomy: Designing Nature-Based Autonomous Buildings and Cities
Posted on March 26, 2021 | 1 Comment - Paul Bowles Documentary: ‘Let it Come Down’
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
just intonation Archive
Sound of the Earth in Microtones: Harry Partch
Posted on July 18, 2015 | 2 CommentsHarry Partch, leader of the Geo-Fauvist (wild-earth) composers, and 20th Century pioneer in working systematically with microtonal scales, also built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions. Watch the documentary The Outsider, The Story of Harry Partch.The Gamelan Vibrations of Lou Harrison
Posted on February 28, 2013 | 1 CommentLou Harrison: A World of Music is an intimate portrait of an eclectic composer who traded a fast-paced New York career for a remote cabin in the woods. Harrison, a polymath, iconoclast, writer and activist, embraced artistic playfulness over the business of composing. Experimenting freely with western, eastern and custom made instruments, Harrison forged a new course for 20th century music.Adams on Kerouac: The Buddha’s First Noble Truth Unveiled at Big Sur
Posted on August 11, 2012 | 1 CommentJohn Adams' "The Dharma at Big Sur," composed for the opening of LA's Disney Hall, references Jack Kerouac's evocation of the first of Buddha's Four Noble Truths in microtones, celebrating the freedom of the California coast at Big Sur.Harry Partch: Genesis of a Musical Outsider
Posted on June 17, 2012 | 5 CommentsComposer, dishwasher, hobo, fruit picker, sailor, microtonal theorist, instrument builder, writer, visual artist, philosopher, musicologist, iconoclast teacher Harry Partch was one of the first 20th Century composers to work with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit (43-tone) just intonation.mapping sound. – Bowed Guitar Tributaries of Los Angeles
Posted on January 21, 2012 | 1 CommentJust Intoned tunings sound off, with a 2009 tribute to slain microtonal guitarist Rod Poole, from SASSAS at the Schindler House, Los Angeles.Bitter Music in Natural Acoustics with Harry Partch
Posted on June 2, 2011 | 7 CommentsPartch broke with European tradition and forged a new music based on primal integration of sound and speech, using self-designed instruments tuned with natural acoustic resonance or just intonation. The result was a beautiful sound and vision with "magical purpose."Sound Artist Kraig Grady: Improvisational Rain
Posted on March 31, 2011 | 1 CommentThe tuning for "Our Rainy Season" resembles a scale once found among the Chopi people of Mavila, Mozambique, an area that experiences a severe rainy season.Post-Indigenous Microtones: Kraig Grady’s Anaphoria Island
Posted on December 8, 2010 | 4 CommentsThe metaphorical island of Anaphoria is fertile territory for microtonal composer and sound artist Kraig Grady. One senses in his ringing, vibrating, just intonations, Native American chants, Indonesian gamelan orchestras, Japanese gagaku, African drumming down the spirits steeped in harmonic relations found in nature.
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