Chris Rainier: Adapted Guitar 1
All music composed and improvised by Chris Rainier © 2023
Engineered by Adam Casey at The True Vine, Melbourne, Australia
Recorded on the 13th of January 2023
Mixed and mastered by Adam Casey
Cover photograph by Peter Stanton
["'Silverswords', Haleakalā Crater National Park, Maui. July 1987"]
Medium: Kodachrome 64
Copyright of the J.P. Stanton Ecological Image Archive
Used by permission
Thanks to Peter Stanton and Matthew Stanton
Image crop by Tess E. McKenzie
Lathe cut by Michael Lawrence at Bladud Flies!
Calligraphy by Jon Szanto
The replica of Harry Partch’s first Adapted Guitar 1 used on this recording was a collaborative project produced by James Mumford and Chris Rainier between 2013 and 2017
For more information on this particular instrument, as well as Partch's other Adapted Guitars, please go here:
www.chrisrainier.net/p/the-partch-guitar.html
No effects pedals were used on any of the tracks
Various commercial capos manufactured by Shubb and Kyser were utilised on all of the tracks, enabling physical access to harmonies and melodies usually unobtainable via the guitar's standard tuning and stringing, developed by Harry Partch between 1934 and 1942
All capo modifications by Tess E. McKenzie
The titles of the tracks on this recording are direct quotes from Jack London's book "The Cruise Of The Snark", published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1911. These texts are present in Chapter VIII ["The House Of The Sun"], from pages 112 to 132
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For more about the Haleakalā silversword please read below:
www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=5511
haleakalacrater.com/haleakala-silversword/
mauiinvasive.org/2014/08/19/the-haleakala-silversword-greatest-threat-is-now-climate-change/
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released February 21, 2023