Composing my new piece for voice has been an exciting challenge. I have seperated the piece into two seperate characters, "Fire" and "Ice" and each character is supported musically by different scales. The Ice character is based on a whole tone scale (starting on C) giving a very airy, glassy feeling, there are no semi-tones, meaning no leading tone. The Fire character is based on an octatonic scale starting on a. This scale helps me produce a bruding effect and helps create a darker, contrsasting character compared to the ice. Since the octatonic scale is based on two diminished chords I plan to use this idea and develop it (ex. using both diminished chords to create a polychord/ or using all the notes of the chord). The challenge right now is to figure out how to switch back and fourth between characters without making things boaring and predictable.