Sommers spent six-months in Los Angeles in 1934 spending a great deal of his time in various libraries. He saw and reviewed numerous musical scores and, being a trained artist (primarily a photographer), began to explore the correlation between the sounds that he loved and saw written and their visual qualities. He respected and enjoyed these elegant scores. He made numerous drawings in the style and tradition of musical scores using pen and ink on paper, glue color and 'fixer' on photographic paper and then processing.