Re: Composing

 --- Sally Caves skrzypszy:

> Good Goddess, but the polymaths are proliferating on this list!!!  Now both
> Teoh and Jan are composers (Jan said this was his primary passion in his
> survey answers); so is Herman Miller.
Not only. Dan Seriff, if I am not completely mistaken, is a composer too, even
a professional one. He used to be on this list, but I don't know if he is still
here. And another composer, Jesse Raccio, has been active too for a short
while. I don't know if he is still there, either.
And don't forget Steg Belsky and Christian Thalmann, who both recorded
beautiful songs in their conlangs.
(BTW Christian, I have been trying to download your Christmas song, but it
doesn't work. Can you help me? I want to hear it!)

> Miller's music has the added strangeness of quarter tones.
I have been playing with quarter tones, too, but finally I came to the
conclusion that they don't really fit in my music, although I still use them,
very incidentally.
I love to perform quarter tone music, though (notably choral works by Iannis
Xenakis). Some great music has also been written by Alois Hába, Ivan
Vyshnegradsky, and Charles Ives. There was also a renaissance composer who
experimented with quarter tones, but I can't remember his name offhand.

> I love his Porcupine Concert.
Me too!!!

> How many other of you conlangers are so musical?
Ha! Perhaps you should have added that as a question to your survey. Mmm, could
be an idea for Peter Clark's weekly poll...

> Me (yry), I am primarily a songwriter in Teonaht, with music to accompany my
> songs.
Yes, I heard them. They are lovely!

> I used to play piano hungrily, and have composed several short piano
> pieces.  All of them deliberately weird.
You don't have by chance any recorded matter online (of the piano pieces, I
mean)? Or scanned pages?

> Jan do you have any music we could hear?
Alas, not yet! The best performances of my work were never recorded :((( . What
I have are mostly tapes (some of them containing good material, I admit).
I also have midi-files, recorded on a keyboard. Yet I don't know how to
transform them into .wav or .mp3 files. Perhaps somebody could give me some
advise here.

> It takes a GODAWFUL long time to load on my machine, mainly because I still
> have dial-up.  hissss!
I have the same problem :( . Teoh's two pieces took me almost half an hour to
download :( .

> Finally, Teoh and Jan... do you have recorded excerpts of your LANGUAGE?
Not yet. You know, I am quite a computer illiterate for a software engineer :))
(at least in the field of PCs). I would really LOVE to record myself speaking
in my own conlangs, but the whole trouble is that I don't know how to do it. I
finally have an acceptable computer at home (even with a soundcard!), but
without a microphone. At least, I guess you need one for making recordings,
right?

But I promise: as soon as I have something, I'll upload it immediately (that's
one thing I have learnt during the last few months) and notify you personally!

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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