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The submissions are final at the time that they are submitted to the competition. (I will add this to the competition announcement - thanks for bringing this up)

I do wonder though as I am both participating and looking to review, it wouldn't be in my best interest to review and give feedback if they may change their work and possibly improve their result before the deadline lol. It's not a big issue, however, a little internal dilemma.

Here's a screenshot of the current version of the program, with which the music in the post directly above this has been remixed.

No you can review the submissions as they are being submitted. But the final public voting polls to determine who will get which badge will not be publicized until after June 2nd.

Now that I have more or less perfected the processing of adjusting panning, I have turned my attention to adjusting the loudnesses of sound partials. This second aspect of the program is already finished, I think. Here are some results.

A vast improvement. Formerly, below a certain frequency, partials were suddenly restricted to being panned hard center. Now there is a smooth transition rather than a hard cutoff, leading to a much smoother effect.

One of the last problems was that, while each stucture of panning was more or less optimal, the transitions between them were sometimes not. Sometimes, instruments seemed to jump about at random. I have therefore changed the logic behind this. Formerly, the program would flip optimally constructed "panning constellations" (partials with their orientations in stereo space) so that transitions would be maximally smooth. Instead now, they're connected to each other based on structural similarity, with the result that clusters of partials move around in a much more logical and coherent fashion.

She likes dogs, but we are making do with two pet rats at the moment. One of them stalks, slays, and devours house mice. I could write a little Sweeney Todd-style opera about it!🤣Beethoven had rodents in his apartment, mark of a great or even good composer.

She...😉is going to get me coffee! Just friends, but she gets to live with a composer...

thank you man, it is definitely a quirky piece, much more on the experimental side. I actually took a bit of inspiration from prokofiev's march from the "love of three oranges", so it takes on an absurd, comical vibe. Give your housemate a bit of time, he will get used to it👍

Further improved the program by taking into account loudness masking and the fact that the panning of low frequencies cannot be distinguished (these are now panned dead center). Some results may be heard below.

I like it, it seems to work! Some "rich" chords, but contrasting sections give the ear a break. The first theme briefly restated, end. Beautiful! And tasteful, not a wasted note. When I first glanced at the score, my inner ear didn't want to accept the A natural/E natural against Eb, Ab, but you make it work.

I've written settings of poetry fragments that are less than thirty seconds, but I think you've got me there. 🤨 I just verified: I have a setting of a Hopkins Fragment that is about 20 seconds by the mm. That would be the shortest song I ever wrote that I would enter on the computer, as opposed to fragments fragmented by me, or false starts, etc.

The Capybara-I see you are like me a fan of augmented triads and other whole tone chords. I like it, but it's probably driving my housemate crazy...🤣

Hello everyone! This weekend I experimented with a really simple atonal technique and I turned the experiment into this piece for piano. The technique is "mirror writing". I applied it in the simplest way possible. The process was the following: 1. I decided on using four voices and mirror them around the middle C axis. 2. For each melody note, I added the mirrored bass below it (for example, a top note A is accompanied by the bass Eb, both a major sixth above/below middle C). 3. After that, I chose both internal notes (considering that those need to also be mirrored against each other). Except for two measures, the whole main theme was created through that technique. Afterwards I composed a tonal middle section and turned the piece into the form ABA'B'A''. This time I tried avoiding excessive exact repetition (with techniques such as changing octaves, creating different melodic contours and accompaniment, or mixing final restatement of main theme with the coda) in order to add some variety to the whole. That is because I tend to just copy and paste most of my sections and I want to get rid of that habit. In addition, the first measure copies the beginning of Schubert's Impromptu No.1 in C minor. As always, every feedback, comment or suggestion is more than welcome and hope you enjoy it! Thank you! PD: My main concerns are in m.39~40, where I change the ending of main theme making it maybe too dissonant, and the fact that the first time that I introduce the B section (m.13) I do not use the continuous tresillo accompaniment.

I have a question... Should the evaluations, scores, etc. be carried out once the deadline for submitting entries has passed?

A lot of overlapping perfects. I see you tried to imitate birds and animals. I see you have done it in a creative way, so I gave you a 10.

I just realized that I have the option to dial the consonance levels all the way up. The remixes are coming out substantially better now. Below are three compositions processed by the program I designed.

A few days ago, I wrote a very short piano work for my brother's birthday, which is not something I normally do. I realised early on in the week that I had not yet got him anything and decided to write and put together a music video in one day, as one does. Of course, I paired it with some colourful lyrics to express my utmost brotherly love and affection for him (translation: extol his persistently annoying behaviour and call out embarrassing moments in his life). To my surprise, he did enjoy it more than I thought he would, so that was a success! I've removed the lyrics for seriousness' sake in the PDF, but I hope you'll find something of interest in here. As usual, I am also always looking for feedback and ways to keep chipping away at my pieces even after I've written them. Are the two main themes different enough in character? Does the form feel awkward or bloated? Anything else of concern or note? One thing I will admit is that I probably should not have notated swing entirely with triplets, so that's something I've started to fix up at the moment... Promenade (2026).mp3 Promenade (2026).pdf

Hi!! Thank you for your feedbackk. I actually tried to imitate harmonies from as many Chinese composers as I could find (could only find a few so took some inspiration from some Japanese composers too) and I thought that I did alright. I was wondering, what made you think it's atonal? For reference, here were my biggest inspos: https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9sWO_07nOcVc31RWLQukpCSRIRGoLMvi https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxCY-tbOrbg9ovMKSOY2F8QWCYvY1tz2w6 https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkximtvrASDQuNCaQ47ieLpRZ6iXuaxGym1 https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxJnJpo0JuB56eB7LF3MQe0J9b-F1EbNEy tytyyy btw !!!

There, I've done it. I fixed the last issue, which was stereo wobble. Now the right and left ear are always balanced, to what I think is very pleasing effect. Here are some samples. Be sure to put on your headphones to enjoy the fruits of my labor.

Regarding the "Classified-Information" of the software, i cant discuss that in detail, except to say , that's its the FASTEST way of creating Any type of music,extremely easily. The Video production/ photos / websites etc, are all using Basic software programs, that are decades old. I cant read music, so as pretty as the score pdfs look...........their meaningless to me. Launching a New software-Keyboard-Program,globally is no easy task, and will probably never happen.

I fixed a major issue in the workings of the program. Now, the continuity of the transitions has been more or less perfected, and the sound quality is, as a result, vastly improved. I think, at this point, it sounds about as polished as it needs to be. I have one other idea floating around in my head, but I'm not sure I'm going to pursue it. Maybe, maybe not. Here are some samples:

I admit that was my implication, yes. Also, appreciate the graphic, as that is information I already know. I will also confess that seeing all the photo and video graphics in quick succession with your posts does give the impression that you use gen-AI to create the videos, photos, or other graphics (on your profile for instance) in tandem with the music creation. Thus, it has also made me wonder if the music, usually electronic in sound, was also gen-AI. Apologies if I have casted an offense, as I do not mean to do so; this is more of a personal curiosity. I don't mean to take this comment section away from your post, so I do not mind chatting in a direct message thread instead.