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I'm not going to repeat some things said previously about the music. I agree with a alot of what MichaelAlex said. I don't think the "crash" should be in the beginning. I'm not criticizing that, but I think the piece would be much more effective if you used the beginning of the piece to represent his life, then had the crash, and then use the rest of his piece to signify the future, whether that be an afterlife (his journey to "the starts"), memories living on in people still alive, or influences he still has. That way it will catch the audiences attention much more, because they get to learn who the person is via the music before the "crash". And then once the crash happens, they get more emotionally attached. Nothing's wrong with what you have, however. I just think having the crash in the middle would make the piece more effective. I'm sorry to hear about Jesse, and I'm sure he was a great person, especially with how this piece represents him!

Okay, I think I got the gist of this thing, but at the same time I don't think I did. I have zero experience with this program so don't exactly know what the possibilities are, and I can only assume that the majority of the people on YC also have zero experience with it. This is MAX aleatoric (uh, no pun intended... ), it really depends on whether or not the "performer" knows what they're doing or not whether they'll get good results and chances are that they won't. I didn't, I don't quite understand this. It plays this recording of sine waves that gradually gets lower alternating panning and I can add a recording of a sine or triangle or saw or square, and it also plays a recording of bells and what sounds like an 18-wheeler/lorry truckin' down the highway. The sounds change abruptly every ten seconds and it just sounds awful to me. It took me a while to figure out that the two sliders where basically delayed with one another so I could create reverb - actually, it was like you wanted me to compose the piece instead of you, but you didn't give me enough control to be free. I don't see very many people bothering to try this - it feels more like playing with a buggy synthesizer than performing a composition to me, but you already do know my viewpoint on electronic music, especially aleatoric stuff like this. But point is is I had to download files from three different links, I had to install through rebooting my computer a 221 MB very versatile electronic music programming... programme... only to use it to view one composition then expire in 30 days then I can't use it to view any more of yours' or anybody else's compositions. Why can't you just record your own 'performance' of it and upload an mp3 so people can hear it the way you think it should sound - after all, you're the composer. If you did that than I could certainly lend an unbiased review, but this is just too much as it is to handle for me even if it pales in comparison to what other people are doing nowadays.

I loved the melodies in this piece, and I thought you did an amazing job at setting up the mood, especially with the great tone and use of the marimbas. I have a two orchestration errors I'd like to point out. To start, the first clarinets will not be heard above everyone else, even without the trumpets and horns. Double that on another instrument. For the trumpet solo at C, have the bassoon part in the trombones, or euphonium or tuba - keep the whole brass feeling. Finally, the horn glissando at the end should go on alto sax as well to add power. Besides those small things, you need to state how many parts are on each staff on your score, I would have assumed you'd only have one trumpet based on the beginning among things. Also, state when each is to play by using 1, 2, a2, unison etc. Great work, 10/10