Re: music, maths and language

Yahya Abdal-Aziz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What kind of music do L1 speakers of your conlang(s) make?  What kinds
> of mathematics do they do?
>
> I'm expecting that more than a few of you will already have considered
> these things, since I observe much mathematical, formal and programming
> activity going on in your messages.  And here's a link to a lay article
> on the universality of music, which includes reference to "the
> mathematical gene" that is said to underlie all three of music, maths
> and language -
> http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Music_Leutwyler_01.html
I have some information on Zireen music (with words from the Yasaro
language) on these sites:

http://wiki.frath.net/Zireen_music
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/zireen-music.html

The second page uses anglicized versions of the Yasaro words, since it's
aimed more at readers who may be interested in the music (particularly
the sound of the tuning systems) without necessarily having any interest
in the language. It also has a few fragments of Zireen music in
different styles (as MIDI files retuned with pitch bends).

The Mizarian porcupines (Oninko) use a scale of 15 steps per octave, and
I've recently re-recorded my "Mizarian Porcupine Overture" which uses
this scale:

http://home.comcast.net/~teamouse/porcupine-absynth.mp3

and I have an incomplete fragment of a Mizarian song "Yeequitch and
Keesha" also in this scale:

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/yeequitch-keesha.mid

There's also this fragment of Mizarian music using a 17-note scale,
which unfortunately is only in .RA format (ugh). I probably ought to
re-record that one of these days:

ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/ra-archive/treek.ra

I also have some older samples of Olaetian music:

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/krocnardsklestj.mid
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/xeyenike.mid

(the last of which is one of the oldest things I ever wrote, way back in
1978).

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