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Artist
Phillip Arnautoff
5+ albums
experimentalmicrotonaljust intonationinstrument builderxenharmonic
about
As a youth, Phillip Arnautoff had a chance encounter with a recording of Harry Partch's modern dance drama King Oedipus. Inspired by the timeless music of Partch's homemade instruments, he was soon studying the composer's book Genesis of a Music. Before long, Arnautoff was in correspondence with Partch and when the composer moved the instruments to Peteluma, California, the young man made trips to study with Partch. When Partch moved on to Southern California, they kept up their letter writing. A few years after Partch's death, Arnautoff built a 66-string variation on the Harmonic Cannon zither. He built his version in 1976, but redesigned it again in 1998. It is on the redesigned instrument that his first recording was performed. 'Soliloquy' is a meditation in sound, a sixty eight-minute excursion into an ancient twenty one-note microtonal just intonation scale. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
