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Old Feb 3 2008, 1:58 AM
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The first thing I noticed, I didn't like your choice of piano, it was a little tinny, and a little too quiet, you could bring it up a little more volume-wise.

Now for the music... for a while it seemed like you were going on and on with no destination or, indeed, origin. This just means that a lot of the material seemed a little off-topic and unrelated, maybe even monotonous, but then about 3/4 of the way through, you started something new with piano and flute, and I really liked that. The new section that starts about half-way through, the hyper bit... it's really funky.
So why so many independent sections, any particular reason? Were you trying to depict several different things?

As far as ending the piece, I can hear two more notes... simply a V-i resolution, with the 5th degree of V on top coming down to the tonic on i.

Very tonal, a pleasant listen, as always. I heard a few parallel intervals one or twice, normally I would criticize that, but it's your style, you've used it very distinctly in the past, why stop now? Just be aware that most people don't like them and frown upon them in tonal works of certain nature, so make the most out of them when you DO use them. Unlike most of your pieces, I didn't get that outer space/apart from the rest of the world feeling from it, it actually feels very much a part of this world. I do get a very strong sense of sadness and loneliness from it, though.
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