Harry Partch, the outsider / BBC documentary

Darren Chesworth /BBC - 2002

Harry Partch (Oakland, 1901 - Encinitas, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947 and 1974).