Think outside the box! The 12 tone scale should be little more than training wheels for the modern composer. Infinity lies in between these equal tempered tones. Surely, we have had enough 'atonal' piano music to last a lifetime? The piano is a vehicle for the tonal system. Until microtonal (not quartertone, but new scales) music begins to be half-accepted among professors, all new music will remain in the cul-de-sac of beating their heads against the piano keyboard while writing a treatise about the event. Jesus, we have had a century of it already, yet still academics only cultivate the same same same music from people. Horrendous! If the human race survives, the last 100 years will be a dark age of music in a time when music technology is better than ever! Dammit, the electronic music guys have managed to get going but the orchestral stuff is same same same.
