The material presented on this website was assembled by Eleni Ralli as part of her PhD artistic research. Its purpose is to provide a source of information about the work of “Harry Partch-world” taking place nowadays. Harry Partch, one of the greatest American pioneers of the music of the 20th century, was one the first composer to invent, design and build all the instruments that are necessary for the performance of his works. Although other composers also constructed their own instruments to serve their theoretical ideas (Smetak, Carillio), Partch followed a strongly systematic tonal system for the tuning of his instruments. As an exemplary instance of the completely “free” composer,…