Just wondering...

Just thinking about my doctoral research, just trying to understand what I am doing in this specific moment, because my music have nothing to do with spectralism - and that was the point of the panel in the upgrade viva. So, in a way my research it is about how to create harmony? and how to control harmony?; which are the ingredients or stages to create new harmony? or which are the ingredients or stages to control harmony?. But also, how to control and how to create rhythm?; which are the ingredients or the stages to create new rhythms? or which are the ingredients or stages to engage with new rhythms? or which are the ingredients or stages to control different types of rhythms in a single sentence? So, in a way what I am doing is exploring and engaging with different ways and different approaches of creating harmony and rhythm.

What about this relation I have with the harmonic series - there is no way that it can relate with spectral music (only) because spectral music is not only the harmonic series, and the harmonic series is something older than spectral music. So, what is the relation with the harmonic series and my music? and what is the relation between the harmonic series and my harmony? and how that relate with the circle of 5th? and how this harmony relates with the rhythm of my music?; what is the rhythm of my harmony? What is the own rhythm of my music?

This is really important, how I want to use harmony? Do I want to use microtonal harmony? Do I want to use macrotonal harmony? Or I just want to use tempered harmony? I mean, maybe in a future I might and I should use micro and macro tonality, engage with micro and macro tonality… because in a way the result I get can be richer.

These are my doubts about what is next in my research and what I want to do. So, in a way there is nothing to relate with spectralism. However, there is something to relate with harmony, there is something to relate with rhythm - but I have no idea of what could be. I have no clue of what is the word to connect something that is….(unknown).

I mean spectral and post-spectral music was giving me material to control my harmony and to control the rhythm of my harmony. However, it is true that there is more than spectral or post-spectral influences in the way I shape, construct, relate, engage, create and transform the harmony - and I can applied the same to rhythm and the post-minimalism.

All the composers use harmony, all the composers have their way to construct harmony and all the composers use rhythm and all the composers have their way to use rhythm. So, there is something in harmony and rhythm for me, and I need to relate it with something else. But what???