"Vegan Permaculture" genre: Experimental Classical
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	For guitar quartet, restrung and retuned. All four parts performed by Rusty Banks.
	Credits: Performance: Rusty Banks, recording: Mike Pardee and Daniel Farris
	Story Behind the Song Vegan Permaculture, an approach to agricultural design emphasizing sustainability and utilizing such notions as forest gardening and diversification of no-till perennial crops, was a second obsession for me while composing this guitar quartet in late 1995. Although no conscious effort was made at cross-fertilization, hindsight (or wishful thinking?) convinces me some leakage did occur. Performing the work requires restringing and retuning all four guitars. Twelve lower strings are tuned to a 10-tone Pythagorean system (up a beatless fifth, down a beatless fourth, repeat 4 times). Twelve high ‘E’ strings are tuned to slightly different pitches in the vicinity of ‘E’, each related as a prime-number partial (thus constituting a harmonic system) to one of the Pythagorean components.

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