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Hi there! I am a new guy after being recommended to come here by UncleRed99, I would like to participate in this spooky contest as well. Consider this my declaration.

aight im in

I do hereby proclaim mine intent to partake in this noble contest.

I declare my intent to participate in this competition.

LoL what are all these Spanish!

Toccatina, work from 2022. https://youtu.be/9FmOnrMAC4w

Why Herro my brudda

Excelente trabajo, ¡sigue así! 😀 (Bienvenido = welcome (singular) | Bienvenidos = welcome (plural)) ¡Genial! Ánimo con ello y bienvenido al foro Sebastián. Si tienes cualquier consulta, no dudes en escribirnos al privado, preguntar por el chat, o en este mismo hilo. ¡Un saludo!

Cool! I won't follow and make any template then since they make this fun comp less fun!

No - you can review the pieces the way you usually do. Or you can make a new template for yourself with completely different categories and on a completely different scale/point system. It's all up to you!

Do we have to follow this template when we review in order to have our reviews counted?

I have made a Competition Reviewing Template for those who want to review the pieces using the scoring definitions and categories mentioned above.

This is an informal competition. All the participants are free to judge the entries as they see fit. And if you review all the participants pieces in the competition you can get an "Ardent Reviewer" badge!

I am joining this competition: I can be a judge. 🙂

Entrance here. I am in.

Let's go. I'll try. Deadline a bit bad to me but I'm sure something can be done.

I'm a little confused. If everything's decided via popular poll, what exactly are the criteria for "judging"? For instance, do I need to spend a lot of time on a score? Will I be be viewed less favorably if my audio recording is just standard MIDI? The competition idea is exciting, but don't know where I need to focus my time if I were to join.

gymnopide ahh.mp3

The competition is over and the results are in! To check out the winners go here: The competition is now closed and all the entrants have posted their compositions for your review! Please go here to vote for your favorite entries: The members have voted and decided upon a Halloween themed competition! This is a just-for-fun competition without monetary awards. But I will be making badges to reward the participants and to give them kudos! I'm thinking I'll make a badge for "Strangest/Weirdest/Most Outlandish piece", "Spookiest/Scariest piece" and "Overall 2025 Halloween winner" which will all be decided by a popular voting poll. The participants will also be able to earn an "Ardent Reviewer" badge if they review all the other participants works! Please reply to this topic to declare your intent to participate in the competition! The competition has the following constraints: Instrumentation - Free choice of any of the following ensembles: Piano Quintet/Quartet/Trio String Quintet/Quartet/Trio Woodwind Quintet/Quartet/Trio Brass Quintet/Quartet/Trio Mixed Quintet/Quartet/Trio Additionally, the participants are allowed to include Harpsichord, Organ or any other instrument which they believe would facilitate a Halloween-themed piece, as long as they keep the total number of instruments used between 3 and 5. Duration: 3 - 7 minutes with a sweet spot of 5 minutes. Deadline: Friday, October 31st, 2025 Entrants thus far: @Thatguy v2.0 @Justin Gruber @Omicronrg9 @TristanTheTristan @Kvothe @UncleRed99 @sebastian Pafundo @Maxthemusicenthusiast @HoYin Cheung @therealAJGS @ferrum.wav @MK_Piano @Wieland Handke @Micah @Dima @Cosmia Here is the submissions thread for the competition where participants are encouraged to post links to their composition (rather than posting their piece directly into the pre-existing topic - make your own dedicated topic so the members at large can review your music there):

The competition is now over and the results are in! To see the winners go here: Please submit links to your Halloween themed competition pieces here! (Please don't submit your music directly into this thread - rather, create your own dedicated thread where members will be able to review your music there - Upload Your Composition for Analysis and Feedback and then copy and paste the URL of your topic into a reply that you make in this thread). Thank you for your participation! To read the requirements/specifications of the competitions and declare your intent to participate go here: To vote for your favorite entries go here:

Chopin 1, Bach 1, Rach 3, Rach 1, Prok 2.

i'll join i guess.

Hola! Bienvenidos a nuestro concurso! Estoy aprendiendo espanol con Duolingo en mi celular!

Hola quiero participar

I declare my intent to participate in the competition (Copied from @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu hehe)

This is a very informal competition. Usually, in a formal competition we would have dedicated judges who used judging criteria and scoring definitions. But, then, if they were a judge they would not be allowed to participate in the competition themselves. And the submissions would also have to be kept anonymous to stave off any impression of favoritism. But since, ultimately, this competition is just a fun challenge without monetary rewards, we decided to do away with all that formality. But, we would be honored if you (or everybody really) donated their very valuable time to review the music submitted in as detailed a way as you feel is necessary and appropriate! AND, if you review all the participant's works you get an "Ardent Reviewer" badge which everyone will be able to see in your profile! In previous, formal competitions we used the following scoring definitions: And the following scoring categories: It would honor us if you (or anybody who feels up to the challenge) used these categories and definitions to review the pieces submitted! Thank you for whatever time and effort you're willing to give!

I declare my intent to participate in the competition

"Abortion," is a counterfact from my symphony, "Ocean Shell." The 3rd movement is recontextualized under the topic of abortion, and the title comes with its own disclaimer. The song itself is a bit of a revolving door that works well in conversation. It depicts the images that he had seen from a civilization with too many abortions. The effect is subtle psychological horror. You can hear the unerring piano striking a nerve, eventually leading to catharsis release at the end of the song. Something, resembling a human emerging from the soundscape, screeching with agony. Yet, the music is presented in a matter of fact manner, like this is normal. Listener discretion is advised? In America, we share our fears. Feel free to remix. In practice, when someone says they don't like the song, "Abortion," I tell them I don't like abortion either. You either love it or hate it. With that said, the advocacy is there in hopes that anyone can make educated decisions about the process of hard topics, in the news especially. The track was developed from the saxophone, piano and ambience added after the original sound. The saxophone is slowed using Paul's Stretch to convey the "orchestra" hidden in the horn. Altissimo peaks at a hotpoint in the sound, seering white hot spewing lashing out with ocean waves in consequence after the "blissimo." The piano really throttles throughout the song unapologetically. If you never felt guilty, you may now. Anger is accepted form of currency to the imagination in the symphony. The ambient instrument was developed by, Kim Cascone, and he was kind enough to be available for review, when he's not trapped in covert. The form is freeform, but if the altissimo were a dividing factor, a monument to the piece, then it is a diptych, where fractal frames embolden the images experienced. Pretty much anything you could say about abortion is true for the song, too. 😕 Have fun!

Alright, more bass movement in ambience, and bass timbre. Right, so work on the bass. I can do that. Yes, I was personally asked to tone the music down a bit. hahaha

Not sure if it serves, but the thing that probably made me not feel that much uneasy was that there was a constant bass sound that I even perceive as comfortable at times. Maybe some more movement in the bass, subtle but noticeable, would help. Or even some absence of bass at times or a shift in its timbre.. At the end of the day, these are your and only your choices. Maybe this is VERY uncanny for some other listener, who knows (I certainly do not). Kind regards!

Alright, fixed the dark mode issue. Counterfact in this case falls into the "other" category where it's all else but redefining a set of chords into a new song, creatively. I simply forged one of my songs with a new title to approach a different context that also resonates emotionally with me. I was inspired by, Kim Cascones, "Recontextualizing Ambient Music," vying for a more convincing sound structure, if not by the pounding of the anvil that is ostensive in the music: Recontextualizing Ambient Music in Csound That's good that it doesn't bother your ears. I had it professionally mastered, before I shared. I have the unmastered version somewhere if that's your thing? Subtle horror is tough. I thought I had got it, it's not so much unexciting, but uncanny, psychological, maybe personal, but the subtlety in horror is tough to pull off without explaining everything. Maybe you have a few pointers? Anyway, thank you for the review. It spurs me on to the next one.

Hi Vonias. First of all: Do you use that formatted text intentionally? It's so difficult to read in dark mode though it's hardly an issue cause I may be the only one using it. Still, it's strange I don't see any filler in the usual mode. Anyway, the soundscape you created is indeed eerie, a bit repetitive but that's —more often than not— a definining aspect of many ambient music. I don't dislike it, and now that I am done with its first listening I can almost guarantee that I got used to it. It's not very tense, I think I cannot find any better term other than "eerie", really. Not even the high frequencies at the very beginning bother my ears. I like the —perhaps tiny— detail of music dying itself and not getting choped with a stop button. Finally, and reviewing my own brief commentarry, I am not certain if my notes could just apply to abortion 🗿. But I can get what you mean. I don't get what you mean by "counterfact" though. Kind regards, Daniel–Ø.