A treasure trove of unique musical instruments invented and built by pioneering composer Harry Partch between 1930 and 1972 were quietly returned to San Diego last week, ending a 33-year-long ...

If you take four slabs of wood, each the size of, say, a coffin lid, and cushion each one atop a wooden resonance chamber as large as a piano cabinet, what you end up with may look like a carpenter’s ...

On Thursday November, 7 at 7:30 p.m., the Soundwaves new music series at the Santa Monica Public Library welcomes John Schneider and TJ Troy of the Grammy-winning Partch ensemble to the Martin Luther ...

The seventh installment of this multimedia biography of experimental artist and instrument inventor Harry Partch stands as an epic tribute to his greatest achievements and offers a small glimpse into ...

Harry Partch spent all day moving his homemade orchestra from his home in an abandoned chicken hatchery in Petaluma to the ballroom of San Francisco’s Sheraton-Palace Hotel. Not until evening, when ...