Slowly banging my head through this

8 part piece, about half done... just looking for feedback. Hopefully my musical fetishes don't come out too obviously.

Apologies for the atrocious sloppiness. Poke me and i'll work on that for clarity's sake. The program I use is buggy as all hell (Harmony Assistant).

.pdf of reduced score and .mid attached, hopefully.

smiles all around.

EDIT: figured instruments might be helpful for the non-score inclined
Flute, Bb Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin, Viola, Cello, Horn, Trumpet

score is not transposed. I'll double post for a transposed score.

EDIT2: i added some more, planning to wrap it up soon. see last post.

Sorry about that. Too crappy a composer to score while transposed.

I will refrain from commenting on the actual piece itself, because I don't really understand this type of music enough to actually say anything about it. I did notice one notational problem, which is your score order. Usually brass go between woodwinds and strings, so you should move the horn and trumpet up in your score.

The time signature is really original. I wouldn't use that many different ones. The score order hopefully will be fixed, but otherwise I enjoyed it.

that coming from a percussionist

It's not too many different ones. It's too many crazy ones. I would go insane trying to teach a group this.
I actually followed the score, once I got past those 9/16 parts.

Okay, that one 9/8 section is REDICULOUS! No trumpet player can actually count that.*

I really enjoyed listening to it! It sounds random and all, but when you're actually looking the score while you listen, it makes sense. Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe yourcrazy.
Either way, KUDOS! Nicely done. Now try and get a live recording.

~Kal

The rhythms like the trumpet solo and the bassoon triplet offset, and the clarinet follow-unison are more rhythmic guidelines, that it should have that shape, that the offset and the follow are more of an unmetred offset - sort of like jazz close unisons.

The early part is notated as simply as I could - it was from a rhythm grid. I lost hte grid and developed the piece from that.

Originally Posted by Keerakh Kal

Okay, that one 9/8 section is REDICULOUS!

I really enjoyed listening to it! It sounds random and all, but when you're actually looking the score while you listen, it makes sense. Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe yourcrazy.
Either way, KUDOS! Nicely done.
~Kal

Just because I don't like all those time signatures doesn't mean that the piece wasn't well "assembled" because it was. I think it may be "rediculous" but that's what gave the piece its uniqueness.

Holy cow O__O
Is most definantely different than what I expected O__O
An "Oh My God" is in order for this piece :S
I like the uniqueness of this piece O__O
not every day I hear something like this .

while music like this certainly has been composed, and I think you have some really neat ideas here..can you think of ways to make the parts a bit more playable. It is so pointilistic at such fast tempos that it would require amazing players to pull this off...I would doubt a group of professionals would play this well. Some parts aren't actually as nearly as hard as the score makes them seem, though. The reason for this is the mass amount of rests..For example..measure 2...you have the triplet figure played by different players then insert rests. This is more confusing than giving a longer note value. This is more obviously a problem in measure 3 with the 9/16 bar. with all of the rests it is hard to read and while a longer note value may seem to give a less clear sound, it will really just help fill in the gaps..plus i doubt real players will ever play this as clean as you would like..
One more point of playability..I know you want it to be pointilistic, but maybe allow players to play more than one note at a time..it is so hard to jump onto these quick passages for one note, especially when the individual parts don't seem to really repeat themselves in any real pattern that the players can pick up on. Anyways, it seems that you've spent a lot of time on this and it is a very nice concept.