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This is from a piano concerto I wrote a year or so ago. I scrapped the other two movements and now there's only this. The piano part, which is more fully developed now, represents the jester in this Humoresque, while the orchestra plays more of a straight man. But both are engaged in jokes and parody. But then, midway through, after having had enough of such irony, they tumble into child's play, never to return.

This is the piece I talked about in my presentation. It mostly gathers my ideas of the past couple years, melodies that were running in my head when coming back home at night. I have composed it directly in a midi sequencer and it does not really abide any overarching formal constraint. I like it, because it was precisely what I wanted to hear, thinking “what would feel nice just next” and none of it felt forced to me (except when ending soli sometimes), but it is a way of making music I want to get away from since I want to begin again on good formal bases. Also please excuse the non-technicality and clumsiness of my talking about music. So my questions regarding feedback would be the following: 1) What does sound plain unpleasant to you? 2) Formally speaking, what are the weaknesses preventing it from being enjoyable? 3) What, if anything, would deserve development in your opinion? As for the flaws that I can non-technically perceive : i) Ideas tend to be underdeveloped, perhaps too fast and heterogeneous ii) Some solo phrases seem to go on for too long, I have often trouble ending solos in a way that feels justified. iii) I tended not to care about chord progressions which may sound gross to the educated listener. iv) Mouvement I is a bit uncouth and lacks ornaments So basically, I like it, but I recognize it has to be a bag of mistakes and since I am willing to start again from scratch in music, I am wondering what I should retain from this work, and would like to have your opinion. Thank you very much, I hope you’ll enjoy listening to this.