Boredom Fugues

I disagree. Composing out of boredom is can be seen as a kind of exercise and hopefully something usueful will come out of it. I have composed worthy pieces because I was "bored" and used the opportunity as an exercise and indeed something valuable grew out of it.
Now, whether or not Nico felt something valuable came out of his "composition out of boredom" experience is up for him to say. Like I said, I've created music out of silliness and boredom only to have something useful that I could go back to to make a substantial piece later on.

Perhaps, if we continue to comment in constructive manner about his fugue craft we will help to bring someting very useful out of his "composition out of boredom" experience.

By the way, I didn't get a chance to listen to all the fugues but I will do so and comment.

Ok,

I took a listen to all the fugues and I will say that my favs are the 1st of the Eminor fugues and the FMajor fugue.

Although you composed these because you were bored the fugues are not at all sloppy. The lines of counterpoint are nicely constructed and what I really enjoyed about the Eminor fugue was that it was so playful (not a side I've detected in your other works but maybe I'm wrong).

With the FMajor fugue I was left a little wanting around :58. I thought you were going to lead the imitation into a wonderful stretto but you didn't. I was definitely let musically let down
Again with the FMajor fugue at 1:28 I thought you were going to present the subject as well as answer in the minor key but you quickly went back into Major mode. You did seem to follow through with the concept in the DMajor fugue though.
I did really enjoy how you led up to 1:52 and closed out the fugue.

Actually, the DMajor and FMajor fugues seem to be similar.

I'm not a fan of mediocre work, and much less using boredom as an excuse to compose as A: if I'm composing I'm not bored, B: it sounds really like you don't give a shit.

If you're not going to dedicate time to make something you're proud of and settle for the LOLZ, just don't write anything then. Save your energy (and everyone's time) for when you really want to write something.

It would be helpful if you posted scores for these things too, and maybe say a little other than "LOL I WAS BORED HERE IS SOME MUSIC!" As usual, your presentation leaves a lot to be desired. You already posted it, so why halfass? Come on.

Because I don't care about the pieces, they are not a reflection of my ability, and therefore I do not want to present them at any higher level of quality than they are. I spend my time on plenty of music, thank you very much, and if I decide to write fugues when I'm bored, then that's my decision. It's much easier for me to scrape off works like this in 30 minutes, and so...why not? Sometimes writing things like this get my mind going for the bigger fish that I could be frying with a little more time.

Sorry for the double post, but thanks Majesty for both the musical and non-musical commentary, I didn't get a chance to read before I made my comment

Originally Posted by Nicola Canzano

Because I don't care about the pieces, they are not a reflection of my ability, and therefore I do not want to present them at any higher level of quality than they are.

If you don't care about the pieces, why should anyone? If it ain't worth your time, it ain't worth anyone else's. Think about this for a moment.

This is referring to posting stuff. You can do whatever you want with your free time and compose for whatever reason you want, and surely you can post things too like you did. But honestly?

Some people might enjoy it? Looks like a few people did , I posted them just in case that were the case, and look...2 collective hours of my time brought at least a little smile to a few people for a little bit, so thats really all I meant for them to do by posting them, if that at all. I don't mean to start an argument with you, but the comments you're making right now seem pointless and based off of nothing but spite for some reason.

Originally Posted by Nicola Canzano

Some people might enjoy it? Looks like a few people did , I posted them just in case that were the case, and look...2 collective hours of my time brought at least a little smile to a few people for a little bit, so thats really all I meant for them to do by posting them, if that at all. I don't mean to start an argument with you, but the comments you're making right now seem pointless and based off of nothing but spite for some reason.

Ah, yea? If you're intent on posting music so someone may enjoy it and such, why not spend more time on exposing the pieces even if you "don't care" about them? After all, those people that listened to your stuff deserve perhaps a little more. Or not?

My argument is simply that it takes almost no effort to even provide a SCORE for the goddamn pieces, sir. Why not do this? You're just expecting everyone to reverse engineer the midis? That's cheap, if you're doing it "so someone may enjoy it."

I guess you don't care too much about that either, considering the effort spent. But hey, whatever~

scores incite the feeling that I want people to look closely at them and review them. They don't amount to much, and if you want a score for your viewing pleasure, I'd be happy to provide you with one, or anybody for that matter, but that are 1-2 minute little diddies that really aren't meant to be much more than that.

The great majority of my music are large-scale works in fact I think 90% of my musical posts on YC are in Major Works, so believe me, I do take my time with some stuff. But when I don't, its not very important, as should be the case.

SSC, what you seem to be failing to see is that Nico is a much better composer than you .

He can write fugues like that in 30 minutes, and does it in his "spare" time, for fun. The kid's got skillz, I can't argue against that . But does he have what it takes to go big? Only time will tell! (hey Nico, I'll race ya !)


Oh, I love being silly.....

:{P. Silly 'stache guy


Oh yeah, and Nico, these are incredible. Seriously, f*** new styles, just be neo-baroque or something and be done with it You have an amazing talent for writing in old styles, I think if you combined that with your modern ideas you could do some pretty awesome stuff :-D (yes, I had to resort to text smileys...seriously, I hate that part of YC >:-(). Of course, I could see why you wouldn't want to be tied to one style. Which is fine, because you wouldn't have to be ;-) (Damn you four-per-post! Damn you!!!)

Thanks, buddy .

Here's another little thing I found lying around on my computer, I was looking for it when I posted the concerto, but I couldn't find it. Anyway, it showed up on my iTunes library, and I actually made an mp3 of this one. A little 2 minute "Scherzetto Classico" I did in about an hour. It can be found here:

Boredom Scherzetto

I should really change the name of this thread to "Nico's Boredom Music Thread"