Slonimsky in Westwood in the 90's

About ten years ago, I was staying with Steve Hammond (my favorite
musical mentor)in LA, when he was asked by MacMillan publishers to go
and meet Slonimski, with the idea of producing a new electronic version
of his book of scales.

Steve went to meet him at his place in Westwood, and I heard that it was
to progress.

I asked Steve how old Slominski was, and was told "...in his eighties".

Unfortunately Steve never completed the project as he himself died (in
his forties) in the meantime.

Does anyone know what happened to this project?

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Charles Lucy - lucy@harmonics.com
see http://www.lucytune.com for info. on LucyTuning.

I use a system of musical notation for improvisers inspired by Slonimsky. In its simplest 12tET form it writes patterns using + for up and - for down followed by the number of halftones and wiggly brackets for looping the pattern. I have also developed diatonic versions for working within nominated scales and a hybrid diatonic / chromatic version. The code could easily be changed into machine language. Among its advantages are that it uses a fraction of the space, it is good for all transpositions/keys, and you can keep making up new ones that aren't in Slonimsky. When you add wildcards you can write practically all possible musical patterns on one page! - I guess.

> ** Original Subject: RE: [tuning] Slonimsky in Westwood in the 90's
> ** Original Sender: Charles Lucy <LUCY@ILHAWAII.NET>
> ** Original Date: 11 Dec 2000 20:23:55 -0000

> ** Original Message follows...

>
> About ten years ago, I was staying with Steve Hammond (my favorite
> musical mentor)in LA, when he was asked by MacMillan publishers to go
> and meet Slonimski, with the idea of producing a new electronic version
> of his book of scales.
>
> Steve went to meet him at his place in Westwood, and I heard that it was
> to progress.
>
> I asked Steve how old Slominski was, and was told "...in his eighties".
>
> Unfortunately Steve never completed the project as he himself died (in
> his forties) in the meantime.
>
> Does anyone know what happened to this project?
>
>
>
> ~====================================================~
> Charles Lucy - lucy@harmonics.com
> see http://www.lucytune.com for info. on LucyTuning.
>
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