February 2011:
My Waves and Partcles CD has been released, this is the first music made public where I used the thirds period scales set (the ultra-chromatic set).
July 2009:
I've been around the horn with this.
The second period scales, which are the scales I used in my opus 132, duets and opus 139 solos for horn, is the best set of scales for an equal tempered tuning system. The third set of scales is not winning any grants from Canada Council or Sask. Arts Board yet, but as I write my horn trios(opus 156) #1 starts the Rennaiscance, #15 is awakening and #16 is fully microtonal. It's just too cool. Altered tone make me perk up and listen more attentively. With my experinece on natural horn, I can put a pitch anywhere, so too this will be expanding my horizons.
 The
third period
Includes the eight major scales and the 56 minor scales
It has a way to veiw the system in a very natural microtonal
way or in a way that will fit with equal temperment.
 Second
period
I use the same relationship of line to half or whole step
but most of the trigrams are separated by a fifth.
This was transitioned in around opus 77 and I may still
be using these for equal temperament pieces.
 First
period scales etc. (the old pages)
In the first period, or method of organizing tones in
relationship to the I Ching, I use the solid lines as whole
steps and the broken lines as half steps
& I don't seperate the hexigrams by the interval of
the fifth.
This type of scale is used from about opus 17 to opus 77. |
