Cris Forster established The Chrysalis Foundation, a public 501(c)3 nonprofit foundation. The Chrysalis Foundation supports instrument builder and composer Cris Forster, who wrote Musical Mathematics.

   


Welcome

 

www.chrysalis-foundation.org

         

          Established in 1982, The Chrysalis Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit arts and education organization that encourages the creation of new acoustic musical instruments, and supports compositions and performances for these instruments.

 

          The Foundation is accomplishing these goals through the work of master builder, composer, and writer Cris Forster, whose original acoustic instruments are designed to explore new tunings in just intonation.

 

          We are devoted to the idea that the future of music depends on the integration of timbres and tunings as raw ingredients in an expanding, flexible, and highly nuanced tonal palette. By recognizing the art of tuning as a variable rather than a constant, music can once again become a vital force capable of expressing and addressing the complexities of our modern minds and spirits.

 

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All rights reserved.  The graphics and texts contained within this website may not be copied, republished, or translated in whole or in part without written permission from the Chrysalis Foundation.

 

    

 

We are pleased to announce the release of our
30th anniversary documentary:

 A Voyage in Music.

 

A film by Eli Noyes and Heidi Forster.

 

 

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Dear Reader,

 

          Since July 2002, more than 300,000 visitors have logged on to www.chrysalis-foundation.org.  Your interest has encouraged us to plan a self-publication of Cris Forster's manuscript Musical Mathematics: A Practice in the Mathematics of Tuning Instruments and Analyzing Scales.  To accomplish this task, we will be applying to organizations and individuals for grants.  Our goal is to publish a complete and unabridged first edition of 500 copies, with a retail cost of $90.00 per book.  If you would like more information on Mr. Forster's 1400-page manuscript, please visit our Musical Mathematics page, which shows the Table of Contents of this work. 

 

          If you would like to see Musical Mathematics in print, please write to us so that we may include your emails and letters in our grant applications.  Kindly let us know whether you are a musician, student, teacher, professor, instrument builder, etc., and indicate any institutional affiliations you may have.  Your name and email address will only appear in confidential grant applications.  We will honor anyone's wish to remain anonymous.

 

Please send your email to:

 

info@chrysalis-foundation.org

 

or send your letter to:

 

The Chrysalis Foundation

1459 18th Street, PMB #137

San Francisco, CA 94107

 

          Thank you for your interest and support of the Chrysalis Foundation book publication project.

 

The Board of Directors