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Wow It sounds very intense and spectacular, with 4 voices... The truth is that it catches you in a non-stop progression. I think the shortness of it benefits it given its textural intensity. The sound of the strings sounds like it's a podo “dejado” (I don't know how to explain it.... in Spanish “dejado”). Is it some effect. Greetings, and congratulations to your mother....

One mistake, but for now I'm done with this musical composition. It's a short canon:

one of my favorites to cover:

Probably the shortest canon I have ever written in terms of duration, as I found most suitable to dedicate it as a gift to my mother both on account of this year's Mother's Day and her own birthday falling by the end of the month. Enjoy! YouTube video link:

Watching this Wuthering Heights adaptation for my Uni English course. Music is absolutely phenomenal.

Hi Jody, I think I saw you once performed some gamelan music in Yogyakarta Gamelan Music Festival in Purna Budaya Yogyakarta (around the year 2000 or before that I can't really remember). I remember clearly you asked all the audience to make sounds with stones in their hands and we all made percussion music with stones. Is Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival still going? I'm sad to hear that Sapto Rahardjo passed away. I miss Yogyakarta. I never study music and don't know how to read music notation but I like to compose some gamelan-like music.

Note performer has ended its support VST3 libraries. This came after they release NP5 which allowed VSTi to preloaded (i.e. it used less ram and less CPU). They got back lass from this. So they did complete back flip and pull out. They offered downgrades.

Hello all! It's been a long while since I posted, and today I come with my own arrangement of the Main Title Theme for Star Wars: Andor (originally composed by Nicolas Britell). I'm a huge Star Wars fan and have greatly enjoyed the show and its music. As such, I wanted to take my try at composing a variation on the main title theme. This is my first jump into making my own arrangement of music from the Star Wars universe and seemed like a good (and relevant) place to jump in. I made this in FL Studio using a combination of Spitfire Audio libraries (BBSCO Discover, Intimate Strings, & Epic Choirs) then arranged by ear. Hope you enjoy the listen and I greatly recommend listening to the score of the show whether you're a Star Wars fan or not. It's top notch! Looking forward to the conversations and feedback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuPKJFu4FpE&ab_channel=KILI I've been really into fantasy music recently- thank you for listening!

It kind of depends for me on exactly what it is. In many instances, I like hearing a performance come back from live players and the little nuances that make their interpretation unique. However, I will say that it can be frustrating working with musicians with pop and jazz backgrounds. They're not so used to part-writing and often don't read sheet music. Their music is often much more chord + melody based and improvisational, so they often think that the pitches I've written are merely guidelines when they are in fact deliberately chosen because of how they will work vertically, as a unit, with other lines that occur at the same time, and they struggle to understand why them changing the melody the way they have messes up the piece.

Just wanted to say well done for completing such a monumental work. I haven't listened to it all yet; but everything I've heard so far has been amazing!

Definitely. We're not loving it as any claim to greatness or mastery (that really would be arrogant). We just love it because what's come out of us naturally resonates with us. Unless we're exclusively technical in how we write, we put, to varying extents, part of ourselves into the music. We write what we find to be beautiful, even if no-one else does, so it's not surprising that the same beauty strikes us when we hear it back.

After joining YC I have quite a lot of experience playing my own pieces now, though only by recording with only myself at the piano without an audience. Yeah this is exactly why I record my own piece with my own interpretation. I played my ( ) piano piece back in 2012 because it was to be submitted to the Exam Bureau and I found the trill of the Sibelius rendition disgusting, and the rubato was very unsatisfactory, so I recorded the piece myself. Even though it's full of slip, the recording is full of emotion and honesty, and I heard from my teacher that the piece's recording was played in Teacher's Seminar and those teachers were in awe of my playing which is full of slips haha. Playing my own piano pieces gives me a chance to polish the details further because music play by hands is much different than Augensmusik or Öhresmusik. I can prove this piano music can really be played. Also, even though the piece once composer is not belong to me exclusively, the interpretation from the original composer is important to know. I have also played through all Vince's @Thatguy v2.0 12 Piano Preludes. He did mention I brought in something he didn't think of before (at least not ruining his pieces haha). Actually when I receive reviews of my pieces I always discover something I have never thought of. No one ever plays my pieces haha, tho @PCC once arrange my piano piece Moment Musical for Organ. I would be excited if anyone plays my pieces, especially my Piano Sonatas, haha! Henry

What are your thoughts around performing your own piece or having others perform your piece? Performing your piece can be a great way to share your interpretation and intentions of your own piece, and playing your own piece forces you to assess the playability of your piece, and make adjustments where necessary. You can prove your piece can be played by a human, removing accusations that it is just a computer-generated "impossible" piece. However, since different people have different abilities and interpretations, playing your piece might not necessarily help in making your piece more accessible (though it still can), especially when one performs and reinforce opinions of one's piece, as if a self-fulfilling prophecy, where your piece is the prophecy itself, which can be limiting - but again, this can be countered with an open mind. Personally I always find it interesting how people can have so many different interpretations and ways of playing the exact same piece, with the exact same notes, markings and instructions, we all to some extend follow the score, took things out, or added things, according to our practical abilities and personal preferences, it reflects character - whether the persona or the person. Same goes to one's piece, one cannot expect everyone to have the same interpretation as you, even if you are the composer. Yet, it can be quite personal because your piece is almost like a part of you and when others play it it is like engaging with you/ a part of you. It can be fulfilling when someone plays or improvise in an interesting and you thought " Oh, I never thought of that", or way of expressing love, like between Schuman and Clara, yet sometimes one may be offended as what might be disrespect as well. Chopin liked it when Liszt played his Etudes with virtuosity but not when adding unnecessary ornaments to his nocturnes. How y'all experience this? Have you had experience of playing your piece in front of an audience (irl or online) - how was the reception like? Have you had someone else play your piece? how did they play/interpreted it and how you feel about it? Any other thoughts about these Personally I realized I have really played/ have others play my piece? Maybe I should haha, and post them in my socials...

Yea, it is good find out what works for oneself like you have done. I think at the end of the day, to try out and and do what works best for oneself - interesting to see how different individuals approach composing and how our habits may stay or evolve over time. Interesting to hear your approach: Personally, while I generally compose in sections, in order, before moving on, it is not a rule I will stick to strictly. Because I tend to change things after composing the next section so I feel it "makes more sense",the transitions are smoother, and the overall piece is more coherent overall. Sometimes I just have parts where I am not as sure about compared to others so I'll work on the others first, even if they may not appear in chronological order in the piece.

yeah, and that's why I think it is still possible to love one's music - as long as one does not impose it upon other people it is not arrogant I guess?

Hello Vince, Thank you truly for your kind reply. I am glad you were able to find a few notable things from my endeavors. You know, I would also do the same if I were a composition teacher; there seems to be a new demand for good-quality beginning-intermediate pieces since the current repertoire, in that area, is not very good. It would be nice to encourage composers to explore pieces/styles for new learners. Hope to keep you updated with new pieces.

Hi @Aw Ke Shen! Wonderful piece! I really like it a lot! I think your piece is very differentiated and has a lot of contrasts and a lot of different sections within it and ideas all thrown together. Perhaps another characteristic of scherzi is their (4) driving tempo and rhythms and (5) sudden and surprising changes in dynamics. You certainly have some sections of the piece which have intense driving rhythms in a fast tempo. And your score shows that (especially starting at measure 40) you do intend for there to be sudden dynamic changes, but the rendition doesn't really make that audible for some reason. Also I could add a 6th characteristic: the inheritance of a dance-like nature from the Minuet-Trio-Minuet form which the Scherzo came from. Even though the Scherzo is considerably faster than a Minuet, usually it can still be considered to have the same dance-like character. I'm also unsure if your piece is a scherzo because it is so heterogeneous. Like I said, it has so many different parts and ideas thrown together, while a scherzo would customarily just have the driving Scherzo idea and one contrasting Trio idea. But no matter, I am working on a Scherzo myself right now and it doesn't meet all the requirements either, so ultimately, it is up to you whether you call it a scherzo or not. Thanks for sharing!

I don't think it sounds arrogant. At its best, our music is a deep unconscious expression of our own essence. It carries our signature like nothing else does. If we don't love it, we don't have a healthy relationship with ourselves. Even if no-one else resonates with it - it's important that we do, else what are we making it for?

Yeah I may sound arrogant, but during composing my pieces especially with the String Sextet(my best piece ever), I did think of myself, my friend, and also us as 2 members of the whole mankind and how my own ego fits with others, and how can I express and excavate myself in order to express mankind and Tao. I never think I claim music because my inspiration comes everywhere. Another "narcissistic" approach is I always listen to my music daily for composing coherently. Only by getting to know my music so much I can generate inspiration that is free and refreshing but at the same time reasonable and coherent. Henry