Ivor Darreg
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Ivor Darreg (May 5, 1917 – February 12, 1994) was an American
Biography
Darreg, a contemporary of Harry Partch and a close colleague of John H. Chalmers, Erv Wilson, and Joel Mandelbaum, was one of America's leading theorists and practitioners of experimental intonation and experimental instrument building. Frequently he published his writings in his own Xenharmonic Bulletin.[1]
Darreg was born Kenneth Vincent Gerard O'Hara in Portland, Oregon. His father John O'Hara was editor of the (Portland) Catholic Sentinel newspaper and his mother was an artist. (His Uncle, Edwin Vincent O'Hara, was a Roman Catholic Bishop.[2]) He dropped out of school as a teenager, but he had both self-taught facility in at least ten languages and a basic understanding of all the sciences. His real love was music and electronics. Because of his choice of music, his father cast him out, and he and his mother set out on their own with little help from anyone. At that point he took on the name "Ivor," which means "man with bow" (from his cello-playing talents) and "Drareg" (the retrograde of "Gerard"), which he soon changed to "Darreg".
In the forties, Ivor built an
Darreg lived for much of his adult life in or near
Darreg's informal network of microtonal musicians writing letters to each other later morphed into the more formal Xenharmonic Alliance.
References
- ^ Frog Peak Artist: John Chalmers
- ^ "NCWC Review", Cuislandora.WRLC.org.
External links
- Ivor Darreg at afn.org
- Ivor Darreg and Xenharmonics article at Perfect Sound Forever online magazine
- Ivor Darreg at frogpeak.org
- Darreg Ivor Darreg at Xenharmonic Wiki
- Listen to Ivor Darreg play his music at BandCamp.com
- Listen to Ivor Darreg's album" "Detwelvulate!