Hexachord Etude 1 (disquiet0435) by Nate Trier published on 2020-05-04T11:17:57Z This week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to post something you've been "woodshedding." I haven't been working on my own stuff much, but my time just freed up so I thought I'd dust off and try to finish this piece based on Schoenberg's approach to hexachords later in his life (long story short, he loosened his rules for 12-tone serialism). I wrote a pretty six-note riff and then ran it through the ol' tone-row matrix to get its inversions, retrogrades, etc. From there I tried to find hexachords that went together to sound melodic, harmonious, and unified. Finding interesting melodies and harmonies was fairly easy, but it was very hard to find transitions that "felt" right. Maybe after I work with this a bit longer. Photo by David Meurin * * * * * * More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at: https://disquiet.com/0435/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1 Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0435-woodshed-report/ Genre Classical Comment by Ben Hamilton I love all the space. 2020-05-05T19:13:13Z Comment by Cellar Lights Love the sound of old pianos. 2020-05-04T17:51:00Z