Is Young Composers a children's website?

Age is irrelevant, it's what you did with your time that matters.

PS: OP thread there with the banned guy? Priceless. What the hell was that? Some people just come on the interbutts to stir up drama. :x

Originally Posted by SSC

Age is irrelevant, it's what you did with your time that matters.

Exactly. Nicely said.

SSC - A second your thought about age. I tried my hand at composition when I was 10 (with a not so great imitation of a Johann Strauss waltz) and expressed interest in writing music when I was 7!! But I never, never felt good enough or I felt the places and people who did want to work with me were not good enough for me. So I waited. And my oh my how much time I lost waiting for the right opportunity and the right person. In fact when I had my first premier done by a professional a few months ago I broke down because it just hit me so hard why I waited so long for this.

All I can say is there is no perfect moment, there is only what has happened and what will happen.

I often find it humbling that there are composers here younger than I am who are trying their hands at things I'd never dream of doing. Orchestrations I haven't even thought of. Methods I've never heard of. And dissecting the scores of composers who I only have a peripheral knowledge and appreciation of.

But that, of course, has nothing to do with age. That's in the fact that many people here focus on classical and jazz music, and I focus on cabaret and theatre music.

Here's a link to another composition forum I go to, cygnus! Here's another one, check this one out! Look no further, here's the one with blue background!

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Why do my evil plans always fail miserably? Whyy, suug?

The one with the blue background might be Composer Headquarters :: Index (I think they had a different skin a while ago?)

Anyway, Composers Headquarter's has 35 members in total, not even remotely compared to the 4 digit amount of YC users (some 4,169 registered users, atm).

However I must say that I am afraid the actual amount of active users in YC wouldn't be more than, say, 50.

The reason I haven't been active in CH is because of the shameless promotion they did the other week. Instead of promoting something good that they do, they tried to show how bad YC was, which is something I despise in general.

Anyway... here I am..

Hallelujah!

By way of small miracle (and Google's penetration into the smallest nooks and crannies in the WWW) I managed to recover the 'forum with the blue background'.

Music-Web Forums

It's strange though how this one doesn't come up on searches with 'composer', 'composition', 'forum', etc. keywords. Fortunately I remembered a unique phrase in a particular post.

Anyway - I'm not affiliated with this forum. Just sharing the wealth!

I love children... they taste like chicken. LOL No... From what I've seen young composers plays host to a wide range of talented individuals.

Originally Posted by jujimufu

The one with the blue background might be Composer Headquarters :: Index (I think they had a different skin a while ago?)

Anyway, Composers Headquarter's has 35 members in total, not even remotely compared to the 4 digit amount of YC users (some 4,169 registered users, atm).

However I must say that I am afraid the actual amount of active users in YC wouldn't be more than, say, 50.

The reason I haven't been active in CH is because of the shameless promotion they did the other week. Instead of promoting something good that they do, they tried to show how bad YC was, which is something I despise in general.

Anyway... here I am..

We don't promote, we post links at random and if you bother to look at the timestamp of the anti-yc banter, you would know it is over a year old.

Get over yourself.

It should be noted that Mike and I have discussed my forum. Even though he may be weary of it and spiteful of its original purpose, I think he understands the current goal and social experiment of the forum. I encourage everyone to go to the off-topic section and read the thread titled "Goal".

Full disclosure: About the same time as when I started posting on YC I came across another composition forum, my only recollection of which is that it was about the same size as YC, and the website had a blue background. I'm hoping this thread can help me 'recover' that website.

Not meaning to sound defensive nor competitive, but you do realize that Young Composers is nearly 14 times the size of Music Web? You can't even compare these two sites. Not to mention, we constantly have active members on this site at all times of the day/night. But Young Composers is not a children's site in the least. We have been taking active measures to build this awareness, and the content and music on this site should prove it somewhat. Nevertheless, more measures will be taking place soon, such as a revamp in the design of the website, and the addition of web 2.0. We will not change the name of our site despite the confusion it may cause, due to the long history behind this domain name, and branding. I honestly think the branding "Young Composers" is very catchy, easy to type, and easy to remember.

It's strange though how this one doesn't come up on searches with 'composer', 'composition', 'forum', etc. keywords. Fortunately I remembered a unique phrase in a particular post.

That's because we rank for those terms
Music Web appears to be YC's first "up and coming competitor". In fact, it looks like a complete copy cat. That's ok, whatever works right? I'm not worried though, because it would be very hard for someone to copy our future proprietary software No one will be able to crack the algorithms behind the customized search and ranking systems.