for Leilah, Daniel, Dave, Bryan, Bryson and Emilio: other words other worlds

TODAY'S WORDS

1. Magma: a) molten matter within the earth. b) a French progressive rock band of the 1970s.
2. Kobaian: of or pertaining to Kobaia; for example, the language spoken there.
3. Kobaia: an imaginary world created by Magma, the French progressive rock band. the Kobaian language really exists as a usable language, much like Klingon, a real language created for an imaginary world and its people.

i learned these bits from a highly enjoyable article in the current Fortean Times on outer space and science fiction themes in the work of psychedelic and progressive rock bands. because of their far-reaching influence, the author also mentioned 2 other musicians who weren't rock musicians at all: Sun Ra (avante garde jazz) and Karlheinz Stockhausen (contemporary avante garde classical). i'd like to turn the author on to Lucia Pamela, an outsider musician who made a children's music album about an imaginary trip to the moon titled Into Outer Space. all in all, the article made me want to hitch a ride to the parallel Earth where the band Pink Floyd DIDN'T turn down the offer to do the music for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey...though, for the record, i like what Kubrick ultimately decided to do music-wise; i think it would've tickled Johann Strauss to know that i (and probably a lot of other people) think of the planets orbiting through space when i hear The Blue Danube.
though i certainly can't claim any proficiency in any invented languages (Klingon, Esperanto or what have you) the topic of such languages fascinates me, and some of you who know me know that one of my favorite books, Codex Seraphinianus, an encyclopedia of an imaginary world by the Italian artist Luigi Serafini, presents itself as a work FROM that world, written in one of its languages. i wonder if my Tolkein fan brother Bryan or my Tolkein fan nephew Bryson will ever learn Quenya. well, they will if they want to. likewise my Trekkie nephew Emilio will learn Klingon if he wants to.

buenas noches y bonne nuit! :)