Ansel's Trees was inspired by a photopgraph by Ansel Adams. I use only four trees to create the forest. I chose a 12-tone work by Swiss composer, Frank Martin for my musical starting point. Schoenberg invented the 12-tone composition in which melody became a mathematical formula. The octave is divided into 12 equal parts. The "melody" is constructed from an arrangement of those tones. The row, as it is called, can be played forward, backward, upside-down, and upside-down and backwards. Each permutation then can be transposed through all 12 keys, creating 48 possible manipulations of the tone row!