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been a while since I visited. looks like a lot of ideas kickin around!
I'm happy to report that the LCC is alive and kickin. Students in my classes at NEC, Longy and many privates from around the world are writing new music using the open - ended understanding of 'gravity manifested through sound' that George's concept is solidly rooted in. I still find that even after 25+ years of teaching this theory that its basic principles of VTG, HTG and SVTG (the levels of TG and the way they behave) allied with the LC Scale and its resources, always accommodate and illuminate an objective analysis of any music (using equal temperament) and at the same time serve to inspire individual expression. Amazing works these students are creating. Really wonderful.

Hey Ben,

Interesting idea. Do you think any of your students would like to take part here. It could really rock the forum! Students have so much energy...
and it would be fun.

b

Yes, good idea. I'll mention to them that they could do so.

When is volume 2 coming out?

MokshaIs: Read this - http://www.lydianchromaticconcept.com/p ... .php?t=368

A comment on the notion (stated perfectly here by Ben) that the LCC has to do with equal temperament:

In my work the idea of the LCC goes beyond equal temperament (and yes this is a poetic reading of GR).

Famoudou Don Moye recently expressed it on facebook like this "none of the music is "free", but I'd rather say "highly evolved musical communication" between individuals and their instruments reflected & expressed in multiple contexts transcending known idioms/genres" He was referring to Ornette Coleman and his own music with the Art Ensemble. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=1 ... 5&comments

This is not to disagree with Ben or any of the equal temperament players here on the Forum. It's simply to point out that the George Russell by supporting Ornette and the others (as he did) was saying that any "system" of improvised music must allow every system of improvised music to exist within it.

An important point I think, especially when we get caught up in such unanswerable questions as "when will book 2 be published?" Book 2, Book 3 and all the books of music are being published every time a true musician or artist takes up their instrument and plays.

b