An Entirely Unrelated Thing

I mentioned a while ago two life changes that conspire to keep me posting a bit less; indeed, the two changes keep doing so, and due to the nice perks of my new job, I also got a third life change: I've started working out. So that also keeps me a bit occupied, but I think it might be good for the mental faculties in the long run and thus probably will be beneficial for my creativity as well.

However, what I really wanted to mention - and this is a thing I intended to do way back but forgot about in all the every day hassle - is the instagram account of one of the life changes. For readers who are so inclined, meet Oswald the tibbie.

Currently, I am really thinking a lot about my main big conlangs, and this is also reducing the posting frequency significantly. Trying to figure out how to make Bryatesle, Sargaĺk and Dairwueh descend from a single proto-language – and the same for Ŋʒädär and Ćwarmin - does take quite an effort, and developing them all simultaneously also takes some thinking.

Finally, a personal project I've been doing for a while, and which I intend to make into a full-fledged, uh, thing, is my microtonal pitch perception and theory exercise webapp. Currently it is in an alpha stage, and the sound only works on firefox and edge (maybe safari?). Future features will be:

• persistent states (i.e. it will remember where you left)
• better sound that also works in chrome
• a better menu system
• a login system
• the app will gather stats about progress in order maybe to be able to improve the exercises to have a better effect?
• achievements
• more content, esp. with regards to chord progressions
• Just Intonation, well-temperaments, more equal temperaments
• Just Intonation will almost necessitate some type of hexagonal key layout as an option in addition to the piano-based layouts
• some generative content
• some ability for the users to generate their own exercises
• The basic engine also seems rather well-suited for some kind of 'microtonal scale and chord encyclopedia' type of use.

I figure the microtonal pitch perception exercise thing may be of some interest to conworlders. However, I am also interested in hearing feedback! Known issues at the time are:

• sound engine timing
• sound quality in general
• navigability

So, don't complain about those quite yet ...  they're under work.