>
> Off topic, but you should check out a band called Magma. Back in the 70's
> they made records in a conlang that told the history of an alien race.
>
> On 11/2/05, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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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