Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Composing

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Saturday, March 15, 2003, 5:46
Danny Wier wrote:
> 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.
IIRC, I discovered the online conlang community by way of Herman Miller's site, because of my interest in alternate tunings.