Surfing the Sonic Sky's video: Organic Musical Scales

Follow Surfing the Sonic Sky at: https://www.facebook.com/thesonicsky Many of Erv Wilson's scales are self-propagating like an organic or botanical entity. The scale tree is self-propagating. The coprime grid is self-propagating. The scales of Mount Meru (Pascal's Triangle) are self-propagating. This characteristic of Erv Wilson's work distinguishes it from Harry Partch or Joseph Yasser. His scales resemble fractals in many ways although they are not exactly fractals. The musical scales are fractal-like in the sense that they repeat over and over out to infinity. Fractals also occur in growing plants. Erv Wilson's work is different from others in the microtonal field who have also made contributions by virtue of its organic nature and insistence on being free. This film and music was created by Stephen James Taylor. The music was written using ratios from the CoPrime Grid. Erv Wilson didn't make the CoPrime Grid, but he stumbled across it and applied it uniquely to generate musical scales. He describes it as like finding a strain or mine of musical diamonds. For more info go to: http://www.thesonicsky.com or http://www.stephenjamestaylor.com