Balalan

Thank you very much for these nice comments and taking your time to listen my piece.

This actually doesn't scream atonal, it's more like quickly moving tone centers

yes I agree. I am actually not composing pieces totally atona. What I do is, I pick the chords that I want and get them in the piece without thinking about classical harmony. Also my melodies are often not too atonal aswell.

I think that trumpet part would indeed be really hard to play. The range is tough, and it is very disjunct in places

As I said before, this piece has been performed in a workshop and the trumpet player played it exelent. Ofcourse he had some trouble in places but he told me that with some practice it is nothing too important. So I am quite relaxed on that matter.

When I listen to this I think of a lonely man walking down a deserted but thouroughly metropolitan street at 2:00 am.

My kind of story..

What I do is, I pick the chords that I want and get them in the piece without thinking about classical harmony. [/b]

I suspected that was the case. That's precisely how I compose as well! No wonder I liked your music! =D I actually find if one thinks about classical harmony too much you're going to use too many circle of fifths and thirds progressions, and too many dominant seventh preparations etc. those get annoyingly boring after a while, I like to spice things up by going anywhere from anywhere. Such changes can make just as much musical sense as normal diatonic stuff, in fact often more sense because it expresses something with startling color.