Conlangery 143: Music of Aeniith
Margaret Ransdell-Green and Eric Barker come on to talk about the music they created for Margaret’s concultures in the world of Aeniith , which they performed at LCC8. Top of Show Greeting: Muipidan Transcript PDF Download Plain Text Download {00:00:00} {Greeting} {Music} George: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. With me in Hawaii, we have Margaret Ransdell-Green. Margaret: Hello. George: Also, Eric Barker. Eric: Nice to be here. George: Yes. All right. So, if you have listened to – what is it – Conlangery 140, I think, where we covered the 8th Language Creation Conference, we talked quite a bit about Margaret and Eric composing music in Margaret’s conlangs. That’s the subject for today is their use of conlang music and how that figures into Margaret’s world-building – whatever sort of comes up in the conversation surrounding that. That is our topic for today. Before we get there, if you would like to support the show, you can visit our Patreon at patreon.com/conlangery. Any amount is welcome. I would love to have more people pledging. If you pledge $5.00 a month or more, you get episodes early. If you pledge $10.00 a month or more, then you can see the scripts for shorts that I’m working on. I think there’s one up there that I have just basic notes on right now. If you pledge $20.00 a month, you can get your name in the end credits of the show. Full disclosure – Margaret is a patron, I believe, right? Margaret: Yep. That’s right. I’ve been a patron for quite a while, I think. George: Just to be clear, that is not a way to get you on the show, but it is a nice thing to do for us. Okay. Let’s get started here. Margaret, I just want to start with you because these are your conlangs and your world. You had had a talk at the previous Language Creation Conference about world-building in your languages – with your conlangs – and then you were on a world-building panel at this one and you did a performance with Eric doing music in your conlangs. I wanted to sort of – let’s just start with what got you into the idea of composing music in your conlangs? Margaret: Well, I’ve always been really interested in music. I studied music for a long time as a teenager. I actually started that by studying opera for four years back when I lived in Alaska. I had always been really interested in music – singing in particular – but also composing and listening to all types of music that I could get my hands on.