Re: Composing

>Sally Caves:
>>  How many other of you conlangers are so musical?
    ::ears prick up at this:: I improvise music a lot, compose some * .
    I play percussion (mostly small metallic instruments and objects), toy
piano and various noisemakers (like circuit-bent/re-wired battery operated
music/noise toys, hunter's calls, wind-up toys, mangled music boxes, and
invented instruments made from recycled musical instrument parts).

    * imagine a space alien Trickster-type [a la Walt Disney's Stitch sans
the Elvis Presley schtick] discovering Earth, music/noise-making devices, and
various texturally/timbrally rich musics (i.e. Asian, NeoMesoAmerican,
Brazilian, sci-fi and _film noir_ soundtracks)... imagine the Feral Kid from
the movie _Mad Max 2_/_Road Warrior_ goin' into music...

 ... just _some_ of the music I listen to: Erik Satie, Oliver Messiasen, Lalo
Schrifrin, Ennio Morricone, Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, Hugh Davies, Tom
Waits, Derrick Bailey, Han Bennick, John Cage, Satoh, Margaret Leng Tan, Tan
Dun, King Crimson, Sepultura, Ruins, Sigur Ros, Einsturzende Neubauten,
DeathAmbient...

    ::goes back to playin' his battered, charmingly off-key (semi-random
microtonality), sky-blue & off-white Schoenhut toy piano and his buzzing,
whirring "insectoid" mechanisms . . . throatsings a growling, multiphonic
didgeridoo-like bassline dronal figure::

Hanuman Zhang

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    "In the beginning was noise - raw sound, the seed sound, the One, _Nada
Brahma_, the Big Bang. And noise begat rhythm. And rhythm begat everything
else. And thus the Dance began. Rhythm and noise. There is terror in noise,
and in that terror there is also power." - adapted from writings by Mickey
Hart

    = diff3rrenzii ent3ra kak0 aen mjuuzika semii-tem paen en juu kaepii. =

    (Difference between noise and music semi-time all in you head)

    Sometimes the difference between noise and music is all in your head

    NADA BRAHMA - Sanskrit, "sound [is the] Godhead"

    LILA - Sanskrit, "divine play/sport/whimsy" - "the universe is what
happens when God wants to play" - "joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in
the art of creation"

"If you're going to explore uncharted territory,
it's okay to carry a compass, but not a map." - Derek Bailey

"...improvisation is about change, about flux rather than stasis. ...  you
have to be aware of the fact that improvisation is about a constant change."
- Steve Beresford

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones." - John Cage

"There is no total revolution, there is only _perpetual_ Revolution,
real life, like love, dazzling at every moment." - Paul Eluard

"Ride music beam back to base." - William S. Burroughs

    improvvisazione liquida, sospesa temporalmente e profondamente "aliena"

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