serial music

surreal images

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2026 . . . abstract serial music and surreal digital images . . . 13 minutes

While the Belgian Magritte began making surrealist art in 1920s Paris, the Russian Kandinsky was at the Bauhaus in Weimar making abstract art. In 1923 Vienna, Arnold Schoenberg unveiled his newly developed “method of composing with twelve tones related only with one another.” This serial 12-tone row technique became a prevalent compositional method through the middle of the 20th century.
A hundred years later, IMAGINED WORLDS synthesizes music from VIENNESE SKETCHES, which draws on material from my earliest 12-tone work in 1975 through 2023.

12-tone rows

The five rows generating each of the tableaux are distinct but subtle variants of each other.

Standard Pitch Class numbers (C=0) are identified.