This is a work containing a great deal of information, and greatly disturbing emotionally. It was my goal to write something shocking for the Nexen Regina Symphony Chamber Players.

This work represents, what might be my own (time will tell) transition from  late romanticism stretched too far, though long and extensive scale studies (minimalism stretched too far) to a point of unification, the 40 triads, the three main points and finally the full chromatic scale.

The humor:
Henry Cowell was at a party sitting in front of the piano repeating a awful chord over and over until someone asked what he was doing, to which he replied “I am seeing if this chord will stand the test of time”

The hidden genetics:

Part 1:
Is a study in traditional counterpoint using the one & five chords of each of my 64 I Ching scales.

Part 2:
Is the all seven or eight tones of each of the I Ching scales in overtone order in the rhythm suggested by the lines of the I Ching.

Part 3:
Is in three short parts: