Re: music, maths and language

Well, the Aranin's music would be mistaken for noise by most people. It's
very similar to Tuvan vocal singing. Very low, slow, and droning, almost
dirge like. The concept of mathematics is not native to them, it's one of
the many influences that the Koro foisted off before they disappeared.
 I hope that helps.

 On 11/3/05, John Schlembach <bachalon@...> wrote:
>
> 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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