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I enjoyed it. Though I heard a lot of static around 2:30. Was that intentional?

Yet another short canon, this one composed today:

Hey, did you somehow get the MIDI playback to include pronouncing the words? I haven’t heard of a program that does that (Musescore only has “Choir Aahs” or “Choir Oohs”). If so, what program did you use?

This is so wonderful, and I think you composed the joyful/playful sections very well:)

Thank you for listening and the kind words! Yeah I completely agree, I have no idea how the two violin sections ended up being what I needed, but somehow it was... pretty weird indeed :')

Me refiero a que suena como con pequeños portamentos, nada que ver con eso otro.

Another canon:

Thanks for the kind feedback and positive words. More variety was such a frequent advice that I have looked at numerous trio sonatas again to study others' strategies for variety. And there are indeed examples for extremely varied sonatas, but also others where the various movements follow very similar blueprints. But what the composers would do then is make sure that the pieces as a whole differ in structure, mood etc. Like in Telemanns Tafelmusik. So, I will surely strive for more variety in future sonatas, but the structure of this trio sonata is not that uncommon. @Markus Boyd Indeed, I use MuseSounds, but I am still experimenting with the various settings e.g. for the violin and still have much to learn. For the 1st movement, I would now definitly choose a different sound. @Rich Thanks for the suggestion. This would nicely fit with the imitative passages in the other three movements. I will look into it. @FILMSCORE Yes, I tried to keep the movements rather concise; Corelli's trio sonatas are often that short, and this makes it necessary to be precise and to the point.

I'm not entirely sure what kind of connotations you're asigning to such a term, which I am familiar with, though with a meaning which isn't exactly very "postive", so to speak. To me, "dejado" means something on the lines of "lazy", "careless", "unattentive", etc., so I don't quite understand whether that's what you actually meant here or I'm misinterpreting your words. In any case, thank you for your kind words. My mother ended up quite liking this little composition, so I'm glad dedicating it to her as a gift actually payed off this well.

A delicious piece. The piano is very active and playing a very important role. It's an odd combination of piano and two violin sections, and it seems to work, although the role of the second violins seems very secondary.

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....

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.