Been thinking about what the music of these creatures should sound like. Probably otherworldly in some way - but since our intention is to write a show performable by high schoolers, it also needs to be relatively simple. Maybe based on some kind of pentatonic scale?
Also: the kind of music we make is influenced by the kind of environment we're in - so what kind of music do cave dwellers make? I'm reminded of Renaissance era church music - how the acoustic environment of those cavernous churches encouraged harmonically static music (because in that kind of space, sound reverberates for a long time, so if you change chords too frequently, the harmonies pile on top of each other and it sounds all geschmuggled [which might be fine if you're Charles Ives, but not so much if you're Palestrina]). So maybe these creatures' music is harmonically static?
So I feel like I might have come across as a little bit racist suggesting that pentatonic scales are "otherworldly," since they are of course not actually otherworldly, just non-Western. I'd just like to point out that some of my best friends are pentatonic scales.
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