Text version two:
for solo viola with computer generated tape
I began this piece in late July 1993 soon before I went to Bear Valley summer festival. Once at bear valley I started over with an improved structure. This version is the descendant version. The material begins in the high register and as the cycles expand from 1 measure phrases to 2 to 4, 8, 16 and finally 32 bars, the tones drop an octave. The systemic flaw in this piece is that the correlation to my Zodiac / Tarot / I Ching that this piece contains as its structure is of an ascending chromatic scale thus there is a big jump between phrases. an ascendant version would be a smooth upward scale through out. an ascendant version, however, would be inverse from the common conception that astrological energies come from above and not below, but in light that the ancient Greeks considered low tones to be above high tones there is validity to the ascendant possibility, which would make more of a fluent composition.

The piece contains a duality that represents my time in the mountains and my time in Davis. The structure that becomes the foundation to the more creative 32 bar phrases was all written in Bear valley and the rest in Davis. The title represents the original idea of the work, and has very little to do with the final piece. A more appropriate title would be "Music of the Spheres," but that is trite and suggests that agree with that unscientific concert. Even though I agree with the fact that the basic mathematical structure of sound does relate in some ways to the mathematical relationship of the distance between the planets of our solar system.

This piece starts with 12 tones and the tone plus two splitting the octave in half, the in three, four, seven and finally when we reach the 32 bar phases, a bit of creative work givers us triangular shapes for the fire elements, squares for the earth elements, and different waves for water and air sections.