>
> 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).
>