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Techniques of Polytempic Polymicrotonal Composition: History of Fat Colored Polymicrotonal Staves, part XIV

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History of My Altered Polymicrotonal Staff System   in Pictures. My little notebook holds my treasure trove of poly ideas. Landing in grad school in 2004-7 lit a fire inside me that sought a new approach to composition through my polytempic polymicrotonal approach .  Wiggly staff , may be a silly idea, but I am envisioning an interactive computer notation program that could eventually widen and narrow the staves, such as my fat staves idea, to encompass microtonal tunings vertically without semiotics interrupting the horizontal flow of dense polyrhythmic activity. My little notebook shows the progression of ideas about fattening up, or altering the staff for microtones, without the hassle of semiotics and semaphores cluttering the horizontal scansion of rhythms.  The idea of holographic sheet music occurred to me as a possible solution to microtonal notation problems, and amazingly, I believe I had heard recently, in 2025, that someone was in the process of inventing t...