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    • PeterthePapercomPoser
      Finding Mr.Pencil

      By PeterthePapercomPoser · Posted

      Hi @Syrel, I am glad that Mr. Peter Pencil has such a spouse Penny Pen who was able to call the Police for him.  Either way, Peter the Polish Paper comPoser will politely peruse this piece.  LoL  Actually - my name on a writing forum I sometimes like to frequent is PaperandPencil which I thought was similar enough to make this silly message.  I like this piece and how it constantly starts each section of the piece in a new key just all of a sudden - it's very bold that way.  I also think that the piano is a very good lead instrument for this despite it being mostly orchestral - it's very well used as a solo instrument.  I really like using piano like this if it's the focus of a piece with a little bit of delay added.  Thanks for sharing!
    • PeterthePapercomPoser
      Memorial on a Mountain

      By PeterthePapercomPoser · Posted

      Hey @Some Guy That writes Music, This shows quite a harmonic and chromatic fluency which lends itself very well to its emotional expression and extramusical meaning.  It is very mournful and sorrowful.  I wonder if this might not also fulfill my request of you to compose sadness and sorrow, the emotions I chose from your emotion wheel?  Either way it's very good music!  I wonder why when I recently started reviewing your music it seemed like you were bottlenecking yourself into just the diatonic notes of a given scale before changing the key signature instead of making use of free chromaticism and modulation like you do here?  Clearly, you have the skills I thought you lacked and the ability to channel them towards very emotionally affecting music!  Great job and thanks for sharing.
    • PeterthePapercomPoser
      Draft of a third movement for two pianos.

      By PeterthePapercomPoser · Posted

      Hi @Cafebabe, In this style of music, the melody, motif or theme usually leads the development of the composition.  But I think here you very often let yourself write arpeggios and typical accompanimental patterns without any melodic justification for them - just making your way through chord progressions and figurations over those chords for their own sake which (to me at least) don't sustain musical interest.  A chord progression alone doesn't qualify as a motif or theme that can catch the ear, especially when it's ornamented with so much expendable fluff.  There is however, a short recurring motif in this piece (C, EDC, GGG) but formally speaking you don't make the development of that motif the main focus of this piece, since the arpeggiations and fireworks and acrobatics aren't related to that theme at all and come off as simple fluff.  That's at least how I perceive it.  Thanks for sharing!
    • Syrel
      Finding Mr.Pencil

      By Syrel · Posted

      The wacky adventures of Inspector Looso - New Fetchflix TV Show soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-wacky-adventures-of Mr.Peter Pencil, which is well known for his blue suit and lizard pin, vanished during a business trip somewhere in Italy. His mistress Penny Pen was desperate and called the police to investigate. Young Inspector Looso was assigned to this case by his boss hoping this investigation would sharpen his skills. Looso took charge of this case as if he was one of the Raiders of the lost Pencil. Will young Inspector Looso be able to find Mr.Pencil. Let’s hope Mr.Pencil was not violently erased from the surface of the earth? Music: Syrel Photography: Syrel (Mr. Pencil as found in the Castello di San Giorgio in Mantova, Italy) Sculpture: L’Artista invisibile. Lucio and Peppe Perone   Musical Notes: Should I be embarrassed that I borrowed to so many composers. Nope. But you may recognize Lorne, Hans, John, Sergey, Pyotr, Maurice and many others. I had so much fun making this pastiche ;o)  
    • Syrel
      The wacky adventures of Inspector Looso - Main Theme

      By Syrel · Posted

      Luc Clouseau is the proud son of the French inspector Jacques Clouseau and his ex-wife Simone Clouseau. Having the same talent as his father for investigation, he is to police investigation what P.D.Q. Bach is to music, a total disaster. Stay tuned on Fetchflix TV during the next months and enjoy this new series called “The wacky adventures of Inspector Looso”. “This story is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental. Ho and for those who did not get it, Fetchflix TV is also fictitious.” Musical note: You may recall the theme I used in the Rust & Bones Inspector Looso track. However, this time I tried to use the humor and derision of John Williams and added the sarcastic tone of the American composer and musical satirist Peter Schickele who created the fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach as well as the Gerhard Hoffnung humoristic music.  
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