Possible musical combinations

"With a note of music, one strikes the fundamental, and, in addition to the root note, other notes are generated: these are called the harmonic series....As one fundamental note contains within it other notes in the octave, two fundamentals produce a remarkable array of harmonics, and the number of possible combinations between all the notes increases phenomenally. With a triad, affairs stand a good chance of getting severely out of hand..." Robert Fripp

Music and Clay

Those of you that have kept up with me in recent years are aware of the broadening focus of my creative pursuits from clay into music. At the age of 17 I began an intensive study and exploration of creative expression through clay. A journey that took me to study in several other countries, universities, establish a viable workshop and lifestyle in rural east Texas and in recent years serve as professor and chair in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Tyler. The journey of creative expression and exploration through clay has continued as I work with the material almost every day. In past years creativity through the medium of clay has been occasionally expressed through writing and publishing in ceramic journals and publications.
The inflection point came when I definitively decided that I wanted more, not because my interest in ceramics had diminished (musical term) but because there was more creative expression within me that required another medium.
So, if you are reading this and know me through my ceramic work and want to know my thoughts on ceramics, philosophy, materials, kiln building etc. you will need to go back in time. Placed on my web site www.garyhatcher.com are some of my published writings from Studio Potter, Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Art and Perception, etc. I am not writing about ceramics now. As I find things of a ceramic nature to write about I will run to writing about clay, but for now it is another medium. Yes, I am sure I will come back to write more on ceramics because there is still a lot happening in my exploration with the material. The study of music theory, harmonic modality, and technique through guitar and piano is where my creative interest has been directed in the last couple of years. I am studying another language. This study has helped me complete a circle, a circle that began at age 8. Making music began first with drums, then guitar, piano and flute. Instruments other than guitar were dropped many years ago. So with my current study of the guitar and piano I return to those earlier interests. It is all connected with clay.
More on music, mathematical and geometrical relationships to follow.