Harry Partch

高瞻远足的作曲家、音乐理论家暨乐器发明家哈里．帕殊 (1901-1974) 成长于美国加洲，深受中国摇篮曲及粤剧影响的他父母为来华美国传教士 (他甚至宣称母亲是在中国怀上他的)。

帕殊反传统的乐器只有三套完整的还存于世。最近，香港首次模仿重造这些发明，有些是依照原来的蓝本来改造，有些则是改装过的中国乐器。
来感受一下崭新的音乐发明如何重新定义21世纪音乐！
by "Blue" Gene Tyranny
Harry Partch grew up in Tombstone, AZ, and was taught by his family to play the clarinet, harmonica, reed organ, guitar. A self-taught composer, he rode the rails during the early Depression years. Partch was an original theorist on tuning systems, wrote the extraordinary book Genesis of a Music (1949), and an instrument designer and builder from 1938 onwards. His operas, in micro-tonal tunings played on his self-made instruments, were often designed for performers who would take multiple roles, eg. singer-instrumentalist-dancer. His songs were often open as to vocal pitch, pre-cursors of the New Narrative Opera. He wrote several innovative filmscores, and a number of collections came out in the late '90s: four volumes on CRI label, and 3-CD set Enclosure Five on Innova.