Re: Composing

From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>

> 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.  Miller's music has the added
> strangeness of quarter tones.  I love his Porcupine Concert.  How many
other
> of you conlangers are so musical?  Me (yry), I am primarily a songwriter
in
> Teonaht, with music to accompany my songs.  Most of you've heard them at
>
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teoreal2.html
I've heard some of Herman's music. I'm into alternative tuning systems. The
Techians use a 53-tone just scale like the Turks use, but I'm tempted to
change to 72-tone equal temperament, which Byzantine music has.

I've written music in the past, and my best year was 1997, when I discovered
Noteworthy Composer (a semi-free MIDI composition program). I came up with a
few compositions, but I've deleted most of them since I no longer like them.
The very first composition I kept, since I'm the most proud of it. It just
sorta wrote itself, so spontaneous.

Hopefully I'll be more motivated to write more music soon; I've had some
health problems for a while -- liver, thyroid, brain, other stuff...

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