Re: Wav files and conlang and like pronunciation?

Sally:
> > (BTW, I adore all the music I've found on your sites. I rather
> profligately
> > spent a couple of hours the other day trying to decide which Starling
> > song version I preferred.)
>
> I like Hermann's music too.  I hope, And, you decided that you liked
> each one equally!  We're all so different!
I liked all the Starling versions equally, tho I think among the others
I have favourites (tho the favourites comprises the majority).

> > I'm also enjoying Sally-Teonaht songs, tho they seem both more and less
> > familiar than Herman's - more like musics I've heard before, whereas
> > Herman's are more like stuff I've heard only in my head but never
> > found outside it.
>
> Is that because Herman's work deliberately stretches the common
> twelve-tone scale?
It must do. It sounds "right" because it sounds "wrong". A long time
ago I tried to write down some of my songs by playing them on a keyboard,
but I could never find the right note: it wasn't there. The pitch of
one key was too low and the pitch of the next one too high. In the end
I wrote it using the best match from the available pitches, but it
was a bit of a travesty. When I sang the proper version to people they
said it was just out of tune or tuneless.

I excitedly played some of Herman's music to my spouse, assuming she'd
be as wowed as I was, but she said "Oh God, how horrible! What on
earth's that! It's a cacophony!"

> He's got sixteen tone scales, I believe, which is what gives his
> Porcupine Opera such a strange twang.  And the minor quality of his
> Starling Song is enhanced by a really powerful echo, edited in.  My
> work is much more consciously European... I hate to say Celtic, but
> it's an influence!
I definitely agree about the sounding European. i bet you could play
them to anyone not on this list & they'd be guaranteed to take it
for authentic folk songs from somewhere in Europe. As for the Celticness,
Teonaht has a welshy sound, but not so much the music itself, though
I would only reveal my ignorance were I to venture to identify
the European home of its closest musical cousin.

BTW, how did you record the songs. There's one where it sounds like
you're singing to prerecorded music, and another where there seems
to be a piano and a violin.

[music recommendations noted & snipped]

--And.