MADEONEARTH
Report from the world of backyard technology
Photography by Sam Alvar
The Instruments of Invention
Bob Dylan was born in his hometown, but Duluth performance artist Tim Kaiser has a different musical hero: Harry Partch (1901–1974), an underappreciated composer who invented new microtonal scales for instruments he built himself.
“He was a curmudgeon and a brilliant musician who couldn’t stand convention and created his own,” says Kaiser, who also coaxes foreign sounds from far-fetched equipment made by hand.
As a teenage musician, Kaiser ...
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