Diclaimer: This Comp. is not yet ready to take place. But I was thinking that maybe we could have a competition/compilation with the alphabet we generate from this thread.
For the Comp, I think we should add the constraint that one full loop of your word/phrase/sentence (expression) must be audible at least once at the beginning of the track and again somewhere else if the song is at least twice the length of the expression. Also, if you figure out other ways of drawing the symbols, send over a picture and I’ll probably mention them in the report/presentation.
And sorry this is so long, feel free to take breaks, just makes it easier to do a legitimate write up for the report I’ll inform you about immediately:
I’m taking a linguistics course and one of the assignments is to create a language and I thought that instead of making a language people can easily speak, make a language that a human could make the sounds of with a computer. It’s not been formally assigned yet, she did mention it on the first day, 3 weeks ago, though. Probably have until November to finish. I will hurry on it if I have to though.
But I was thinking about making it a musical language. I’ve more or less got a visual idea for expressing letters, it’s quite mathematical, but patently simplistic. The lexicon for the alphabet would be depictions of wave symbols and/or characters that are organized into mathematical sums of their products in words, sentences, paragraphs and so forth using ordinary algebraic expressions that you should’ve seen by the time you were old enough to be on here in the first place lol. It’s just a bit long to write it all out, but could be worth it, imho lol.
So for a reese, a pair of detuned sawtooth oscillators, you’d have a symbol of a saw wave, and then you’d add that to another inverted one. So they’re more or less instructions for making a sound. and that would be a letter. It’s kinda long, but the professor’s probably going to teach us about better ways of doing things like that lol
For the sounds that actually correspond to the letters, I was thinking that we could make them up based off the english alphabet? So by replacing sounds of letters in the alphabet with sounds we can make beats with.
So for for now, this is what I have, feel free to suggest some, I’ll post your names in a bracket as I update the alphabet. I’d like to keep reese and/or eski (two detuned sawtooth waves), and perhaps most obviously sine, but if you can come up with better ones then we can just update. I may re do the list for reporting purposes, but this can be a functional one for the moment
a = sine
b = animal sound
c = shaker (@Tolsof)
d =
e = reverb (@Jizz)
f =
g =
h = hi hat (@Samuel_L_Damnson)
i =
j =
k = kick (@Jizz)
l =
m = machine
n =
o = delay
p =
q = snare (@Jizz)
r = reese
s = eski
t =
u =
v = human voice
w =
x = electrical/mechanical sound
y =
z = xylophone
In the paper I will reference the forum with a link to this thread. I will mention usernames as they come up as they are relevant and reference that source in the bib. So let’s try to keep it civil in the thread lol. And to keep it empirical, I’ll propose a test sentence for the thread, we should all be able to replicate it, but needn’t do so for the event. For that I feel like it would be better if we tried to come up with our own. But you’d have to say what the phrase meant, that is, translate it. But, Ideally, it has to sound good. So make what you can of repetition and time stretching samples. So in a sense, it’s like a language family as we all put our own style to it through production.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Thanks, and looking forward to seeing what becomes of this 
