Schoenberg begins with a tone row, which consists of twelve notes. They are the twelve notes of a chromatic scale that omits unison or the octave. This becomes the module of sorts to construct a composition. These drawings are visual versions of his aural procedure, where a unit value of measurement is assigned to each note value. Schoenberg's matrix allows for the atonal melody to played up or down the standard scale as well as backwards and inverted. This grid shows how that looks visually. The plan is to produce many of these (there are 144 in total!) and seek out the greatest 9x9 grid of intervallic tension. This will become a module to be used in a future model. It is sort of improvy, but mostly just strict theory.
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