Re: Composing

J Y S Czhang wrote:
>>Sally Caves:
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>>> How many other of you conlangers are so musical?
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>     ::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).
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>     * 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::
Are you familiar with the works of Qubais Reed Ghazala and Tom Nunn?