Books in the Contemporary Music Review series

This volume addresses the continuing need to enter into a creative dialogue with designers and builders, who are usually programmers in the contemporary world. It demonstrates the potential for exchange between the multi-disciplinary approaches to music.

This transcultural collection of articles attempts to open the way for musicians to rediscover a tradition of wisdom and imagination which has always existed as an element of the psyche.

New essays on the American experimental composer Harry Partch, who is increasingly recognized as an innovative and distinctive music theoretician and composer. Discussions on tuning theory, instrument building, performance and aesthetics are framed