The Just Intonation Store is undergoing some changes due to transitions in the nature of the network and the on-line retail environment; it's a very different world from the one in which we started the network and the store back in 1985. The sale of new books is no longer practical for a small, independent operation like the JIN, so from now on, with the exception of The Just Intonation Primer and, perhaps, a few other titles, we will be offering books on JI-related topics as an Amazon.com affiliate. Use the links in the Books section, below, to order books from Amazon and a portion of your purchase price will go to benefit the JIN.
The situation for the sale of CDs is less clear at the moment. We still have a large stock of CDs on hand, and of course we'd like to sell them, but at present we are not reordering out-of-stock items. Please contact us about availability before placing an order for any of the CDs below. We continue to honor member prices for those who were members a the time we ceased accepting new memberships and renewals. We'll we be having a big clearance sale of CDs on hand in the near future, open first to network members, then to the general public. Watch this space for information or email us with "CD Sale" in the subject line.
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As mentioned above, we still have a large stock of CDs on hand, but at present we are not reordering out-of-stock items. Please contact us about availability before placing an order for any of the CDs below. We continue to honor member prices for those who were members a the time we ceased accepting new memberships and renewals. We'll we be having a big clearance sale of CDs on hand in the near future, open first to network members, then to the general public. Watch this space for information or email us with "CD Sale" in the subject line.
The Terrain of Possibilities
Stunningly-realized computer music.
Cassette: Nonmembers $10.00/Members $9.00; CD: Nonmembers $17.00/Members $15.00
Special upgrade offer (members only): send cassette J-card and $7.00 to upgrade to the CD.
Evolution for Electric Guitar and Orchestra
Four movements combining JI electric guitar and bass with vocals and strings. Nonmembers $19.00/Members $17.00
Birdhouse
Meredith Borden (soprano), Jon Catler (JI and fretless guitar), Brad Catler (percussion), Andrew Bolotowsky (flutes). Music inspired by, and, in some cases consciously imitative of birdsong.
CD only. Nonmembers $19.00/Members $17.00.
Crash Landing
3/4 of La Monte Young's "Forever Bad Blues Band"-Jon Catler (JI and fretless guitar) Brad Catler (fretless bass), and Jonathan Kane (drums)—play thirteen-limit JI jazz! CD only. Nonmembers $19.00/Members $17.00.
Steel Blue
Jon Catler (JI and fretless guitar), Hansford Rowe (JI and fretless bass), Jose Joaquin Garcia (Vocals) and Lionel Cordew (Drums). Hard JI rock (thirteen-limit) as they play it in the Big Apple. CD only. Nonmembers $19.00/Members $17.00.
Outside the Dream
Syndicate
Reissue of 1972
recordings with additional unreleased material. Extended violin
drones that draw upon his work with La Monte Young.
CD only:
Nonmembers $15.00/Members $13.00
Uncommon Practice
Seven compositions in diverse styles—from short "fractured pop tunes" to extended orchestral movements—in an equally diverse selection of just tunings: five, seven, and eleven limit, both fixed scales and extended (free-style) JI. Realized via MIDI instruments.
CD only: Nonmembers $17.00/Members $15.00
Lumieres Audibles
Dudon's "Photosonic Discs," a series of revolving, transparent plastic discs imprinted with geometric patterns and "played" by means of ligths and photoreceptors, produce a music of surprising ethereal beauty. Here, Just Intonation is an inescapable consequence of instrument design.
CD only. Nonmembers $19.00/Members $17.00.
Patterns of Plants
Generates melodic material through the micro-changes of surface-electric potential on leaves; Combines just and Pythagorean tunings with traditional instruments of China and Japan. Delicate and subtle variations of tone and timbre give a whole new life to classical musical forms such as the passacaglia and strophic variations in this bizarre and fascinating mixture of European Medieval music, the traditions of Asia and modern science. Nonmembers $17.00/Members $15.00
The Night Chant
combines computer-controlled synthesizer tuned in just intonation and the audible sculptures of Mineko Grimmer with Buddhist chant, Japanese traditional instruments, Indonesian gamelan modes, and Navaho text. Nonmembers $17.00/Members $15.00
Change of Direction Eleven new works for the Long String Instrument Nonmembers $17.00/Members $15.00
Body Music
Six works in JI for the Long
String Instrument, a room full of long strings attached to
resonators and stroked longitudinally. CD: Nonmembers
$17.00/Members $15.00
Custer's Ghost—Five shorter instrumental (synthesizer) compositions precede "Custer and Sitting Bull," an extended work for synthesizers and narrator (the composer) presenting words from the two protagonists. Nonmembers, $15.00/Members $13.00
Forth and Back, Tinkle Bells and Bouncy
Energy,
and Starlit Journey
Three tapes of acoustic
and
electronic music in Just Intonation.
Cassettes only.
Nonmembers $8.00/Members $7.00
each
PRMJI
Polyrhythmic music in Just
Intonation. A variety of compositions illustrating the use of
higher harmonics.
Cassette only. Nonmembers $10.00/Members
$9.00
Good Sound Band '92
Recorded live in San
Francisco, this JI ensemble directed by Loren Rush and Janis
Mattox featured new works and collaborations with Stuart
Dempster, Jon A. English, Mel Graves, Daniel Kobialka, Candace
Natvig and George Marsh.
Cassette (specify Dolby B or C): Nonmembers $14.00/Members
$12.00 DAT: Nonmembers $18.00/Members $16.00
Seven Chakras
Linda Montano and the Good
Sound Band A seven movement work, each movement a meditation on
one chakra.
Cassette only: Nonmembers $14.00/Members
$12.00
GSQ '92
Loren Rush, Mel Graves, George
Marsh, and Timothy White on enhanced piano, contrabass,
percussion and sitar, respectively, playing slow blues in five
and seven limits.
DAT only: Nonmembers $18.00/Members $16.00
Complete Harpsichord Works, Music for Tack Piano and Fortepiano
Includes a new Sonata for Harpsichord in Kirnberger II well temperament, Incidental Music for Corneille's "Cinna" for tack piano in 7-limit JI, other works in historical temperaments. CD: Nonmembers $19.00/Members $17.00
Music of Lou Harrison
String Quartet
Set/Suite for Percussion/Three Gamelan Pieces.
Chrome
cassette only: Nonmembers $11.00/Members $10.00
Scenes from Cavafy and Favorite Tunes from Young
Caesar
The latest Hermes Beard release.
Cassette only: Nonmembers
$10.00/Members $9.00
Piano Concerto and Suite for Violin, Piano and Small
Orchestra
Keith Jarrett tickles the ivories on this record of one
new and one old piece.
CD: Nonmembers $16.00/Members $14.50;
LP or cassette: Nonmembers $11.00/Members $10.00
La Koro Sutro
Includes La Koro Sutro (choral setting of the Buddhist "Heart
Sutra," in Esperanto) Varied Trio, and Suite for Violin and
American Gamelan (a classic!)
CD: Nonmembers $18.00/Members
$16.50;
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Javanese
Gamelan also includes works by Henry Cowell and Paul
Reale, performed by the Mirecourt Trio.
CD only: Nonmembers
$17.00/Members $16.00
Music for Guitar and Percussion
Performed and produced by John Schneider on refertted and
interchangeable-fretboard guitars Superb collection of
compositions ranging from 1941 to 1978.
CD only: Nonmembers
$19.00/Members $17.00
Revelation
A new composition for Harrison's justly tuned "Harmonic Piano," recorded live at Lincoln Center in October 2001. CD: Nonmembers $15.00/Members $12.00
From Ancient Worlds
Harrison's new New Albion release features his unique
Harmonic Piano and his inspired performance.
CD only: Nonmembers 18.98/Members $17.00
Simulated Winds and Cries
The only CD by the late Bay Area computer music pioneer features five pieces generated by programs in the experimental music language Formula and altered in real time. Nonmembers $17.00/Members $15.00.
Windhorse Riders
David Hykes with
Djamchid Chemirani Harmonic chant w/Persian and Indian
percussion. 1989 concert performance in Paris.
Metal cassette:
Nonmembers $11.00/Members $10.00; CD: Nonmembers $20.00/Members
$18.00
Harmonic Meetings
Two LPs or two cassettes:
Nonmembers $16.00/Members $15.00; CD: Nonmembers $22.00/Members
$20.00
Current Circulation LP or Cassette: Nonmembers $10.00/Members $9.00
Sonnets of Desolation and Visions and
Spels
Vocal works featuring the New Swingle Singers
and the New Verbal Workshop.
LP only: Nonmembers
$11.00/Members
$10.00
Microtonal Music
for Guitar and Harp
Includes the restored version of Harry Partch's Barstow, for
solo guitar and voice, Partch's Two Studies in Ancient Greek
Scales, plus works by Lou Harrison, John Cage, and La Monte
Young.
CD: Nonmembers $17.00/Members $15.00
Numbers Racket The
Just Intonation Network Compilation
Volume 2 (1992)
Features works by Michael Harrison, Carter Scholz, Denny
Genovese,
Larry Polansky, David Mitros, Adriaan D. Fokker, Erling Wold,
Janis
Mattox, Jon Catler, Jules Siegel, Jim Horton, Bill Sethares,
Norman
Henry, Daniel W. Schmidt, and La Monte Young.
Extended play
chrome
cassette only: Nonmembers $10.00/Members $9.00
Rational Music for an Irrational
World The Just Intonation
Network
Compilation Volume 1 (1989)
Features works by Erling Wold,
Jules Siegel,
Eric S. Ridgway, Norbert Oldani, Thomas J. Dougherty, Carola B.
Anderson, John H. Chalmers, Jr., Lou Harrison, Bill Alves, David
B.
Doty, Glenn Frantz, Dudley Duncan, David Canright, Ralph David
Hill, Robert Rich, Gino Robair, and Harry Partch.
Extended
play chrome cassette only: Nonmembers $10.00/Members $9.00
(Newband's recordings feature the zoomoozophone, a multioctave, justly tuned tubular metallophone, plus various combinations of flute, cello, electronic keyboards, percussion, and the Harry Partch instruments.)
Harry Partch/Dean Drummond
Newband performs Partch's Eleven Intrusions and Dark Brother, plus Drummond compositions Before the Last Laugh and Congressional Record, on the Partch instruments. Nonmembers $18.00/Members $16.00
Microtonal Works
#1
Features Harry
Partch's Two Studies in Ancient Greek Scales, plus works by Dean
Drummond, John Cage, and Joan La Barbara.
CD: Nonmembers
$18.00/Members $16.00
Microtonal Works
#2
Features Harry
Partch's Daphne of the Dunes, plus works by Dean Drummond, James
Pugiliese, Matthew Rosenblum, and Thelonius Monk.
CD:
Nonmembers $18.00/Members $16.00
Dance of the Seven Veils
works by Partch, Le Baron, Brown and Drummond featuring the Harry Partch Instrumentarium, zoomoozophone, juststrokerods, microtonal flute, cello and synthesizer. CD: Nonmembers $18.00/Members $16.00
Ecology of Souls
Drone-based
deep-listening music.
CD only: Nonmembers $17.00/Members $15.00
Prime Numbers and Incidents Out of
Context
The two LPs by the late S.F. based JI
ensemble;
the former on their custom-built JI gamelan, the
latter performed on an amalgam of acoustic and electronic
instruments.
LPs only: Nonmembers $9.00 each/Members $8.00
each
Enclosure Five
A 3 CD set focussing on Partch's works inspired by ancient Greece. It includes important works issued here for the first time, reissues of out-of-print recordings, and new performances. includes Ulysses at the Edge, Revelation in the Courthouse Park (original 1960 recording), King Oedipus, The Bewitched (1980 German recording), miscellaneous short speech-music works. Nonmembers $35.00/Members $32.00
Enclosure Six—Delusion of the Fury
The monumental work of ritual-theater that propelled Harry Partch into the limelight is released on CD. Originally recorded for Columbia Masterworks and long-since out of print, this is a central item of American musical history.
Nonmembers $15.00/Members $13.00
Gate Five Recordings, reissued on CD by CRI four volumes—Volume 1: Eleven Intrusions, Plectra & Percussion Dances, Ulysses at the Edge; Volume 2: The Wayward ("U.S. Highball," "San Francisco..." "The Letter," "Barstow"), And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma; Volume 3: The Dreamer That Remains, Windsong, Rotate the Body in All Its Planes, Water! Water!; Volume 4: The Bewitched. Nonmembers $18.00 each/Members $16.00 each. Members only: all three for $60.00.
Seventeen Lyrics of Li Po A new recording-and the first complete one-of one of Partch's earliest compositions. Stephen Kalm (intoning voice) and Ted Mook (tenor violin) perform H.P's settings of the Ancient Chinese lyric poet. CD only. Nonmembers $16.00/Members $14.00.
Enclosure Two This Four-CD set contains a treasury of heretofore unavailable historical Partch recordings, including ten of the Li Po Lyrics, U.S. Highball, Barstow, and Ring Around the Moon; plus lectures and Warren Burt's performance of excerpts from Bitter Music. Four CDs and 29p. booklet. Nonmembers $50.00/Members $45.00 (see also the Enclosure One video cassette, under "Special Items")
Revelation in the
Courthouse Park
Now
back in print, Partch's setting of the Bacchai of Euripides,
featuring the HP ensemble and chorus directed by Danlee Mitchell,
with Obba Babatunde as Dion/Dionysus.
Double CD: Nonmembers
$22.00/Members $24.00
Music of Harry Partch
The Bewitched,
(Final Scene and Epilogue), Castor
and Pollux, Cloud Chamber Music, The Letter, And on the Seventh
Day,
Petals Fell on Petaluma. Partch conducting.
Cassette only:
Nonmembers $11.00/Members $10.00
The Music of Harry Partch
The
Bewitched (Final Scene and Epilogue), Castor and Pollux, The
Letter, Windsong, And on the
Seventh Day, Petals Fell in Petaluma.
CD only. Nonmembers
$18.00/Members $17.00
The Bewitched
This 75 minute dance-satire
is a recording of the first performance in 1957, and was first
issued on Partch's Gate 5 label.
CD only: Nonmembers
$21.00/Members $19.00
For additional works by Harry Partch, check out the CDs by Just Strings and Newband.
Simple Harmonic
Motion
Works for acoustic
instruments in Just Intonation. Includes Another You, Movement
for Andrea Smith, Movement for Lou Harrison, and Horn.
CD:
Nonmembers $14.00/Members $12.00
The Theory of Impossible
Melody
This recording features collaborations with
Phil Burk, Jody Diamond, Tom Erbe, Chris Mann, and William
Winant.
CD only: Nonmembers
$18.00/Members $17.00
Geometry
Exploring the tensions between
symmetry and organic forms. Some of Robert's most overtly
mathematical work.
CD: Nonmembers
$19.00/Members $17.00
Propagation
Rhythmic,
melodic, and heavy
with influences ranging from North Africa to India and Indonesia.
CD: Nonmembers $19.00/Members $17.00
Yearning
Robert's collaboration with
sarod player Lisa Moscow (a 15-year student of Ali Akbar Kahn), a
slowly evolving textural study in alap.
CD: Nonmembers
$19.00/Members $17.00
Numena
Grounded and evocative. Enshrouded
in mystery. All in Just Intonation and proud of it.
LP:
Nonmembers $10.00/Members $9.00; CD: Nonmembers $19.00/Members
$17.00
Rainforest
A polyrhythmic, electroacoustic
journey into the lush green beauty of the tropical soundspace.
Cassette: Nonmembers $10.00/Members $9.00; CD: Nonmembers
$19.00/Members $17.00
Gaudí
Inspired by the early 20th
century architect Antonio Gaudí.
Cassette: Nonmembers
$10.00/Members
$9.00; CD: Nonmembers $19.00/Members $17.00
Terry Riley: Atlantis Nath—Twelve new compositions and improvisations for various combinations of piano, voice, synthesizer, and strings. From a signed and numbered limited edition of 1000. CD: Members only $32.00
Chanting the Light
of Foresight
Based on
the Táin Bó Cuailgne (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), the
central story from the pre-Christian Irish Red Branch Cycle.
Features the ROVA Saxophone Quartet.
CD: Nonmembers
$19.00/Members $17.00
Descending Moonshine Dervishes and Songs for the Ten
Voices of the Two Prophets
The former is an extended
improvisation on electronic organ accompanied by tape delays; the
latter is Riley singing his original, raga-like songs and
accompanying himself on two Prophet V synthesizers
Cassette: Nonmembers $10.00 each/Members $9.00 each
Both
complete recordings packaged as a double CD: Nonmembers
$22.00/Members $20.00
The Harp of New Albion
Double album
release—a masterful solo piano work in five-limit Just
Intonation.
Two LPs: Nonmembers $16.00/Members $15.00; two
metal cassettes: Nonmembers $17.00/Members $16.00; two CDs:
Nonmembers $33.00/Members $29.00
New Experiences in Music
Recent compositions manifesting the composer's particular JI
theories.
Cassette only: Nonmembers $10.00/Members $9.00
Chrysalid Requiem
An a cappella work for twelve voices in extended thirteen-limit JI based on the mass for the dead, by a student of Ben Johnston. CD: Nonmembers $17.00/Members $15.00
I Weep
The latest release from Wold is
packed with new JI compositions. One of the most interesting guys
playing the JI game.
CD only: Nonmembers $14.00/Members
$12.00
Music of Love
JI on the Synclavier and
much more. Includes selections from The Islamic Republic of
Las Vegas.
CD only: Nonmembers $14.00/Members
$12.00
All LaMonte Young LPs/CDs/Cassettes are out of stock and out of print. We know of no current plans to reissue any of them.
We are not Amazon.com®; that is, we do not have a nationwide network of warehouses with an army of clerks standing by to fill your order—we have one part-time person who comes in to fill orders (typically) one day per week. We will do our best to fill your order in a timely manner, but request your patience in the event of any delay.