Re: Yoon & Teoh: Correlation between composition and conlanging? ;)

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Daniel Seriff wrote:

> Hey, I'm also a composer, although I graduated with a piano major from
> college. I seem to remember someone else on the list saying that they
> composed some music, maybe more than one person. Ever tried setting
> anything in one of your conlangs? I'm toying with the idea of writing
> some Mungayod poetry and setting it for voice & piano, but I'd feel a
> little silly publishing it, I think.
<whistle>  I was on the composition track for International Baccalaureate
in high school and gave it up.  Nowhere near your credentials.  =^)

I compose orchestrals (senior project was a symphony, and we played two
movements at graduation!...something you could only get away with at a
small private school IMHO), trios, piano solos.

I *have* toyed with composing music to go along with a conlang's
culture.  Unfortunately, I *don't* know enough about different music
systems, since my training was exclusively in Western music.  All I can
tell you about Korean folk music is that if it isn't drums, it sounds
like caterwauling.  Probably due to Western bias.  I did pick up a CD of
Turkish sufi music...which sent my dad running from the room.  <wry g>

If I could figure out microtones, pentatonics, etc. and understood more
about non-Western modes of music, I would try it.  As it stands I'm too
afraid I'll screw it up.

> If you're interested in my music, go to
> "http://members.tripod.com/microtonal/music/mycomp.html". I don't have
> any MP3s up, because Tripod doesn't handle them very well, but I'm
> looking for off-site space to put them as demos.
I'll check it out sometime.  :-)  I can't even *make* MP3's; all my stuff
exists in .midi format <wince>, which kills all the pizzicatos (at least
with the outdated program I'm using), and nothing's on the web since I'm
paranoid.  But it'll be a pleasure looking at what another composer's done.

I use Freeservers (http://yhl.freeservers.com/yhlwork/compositions.html,
list only), which gives you 20 megs off the bat.  I don't know if it's
any good with MP3's, though.

My younger sister, who's going to college this fall, is *determined* to
get her own domain as soon as she can get a credit card.  =^)

YHL