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Six Dances for Wind Quintet -Polka -Minuet -Valse Lente -Siciliano -Landler -Tarantella

Overall, I like this set of dances. The melodies are nice and there is a light atmosphere, which is needed for dances. I think you have to work on counterpoint, because there are plenty places where the melody or harmony doesn't resolve well. Take a look at Fux' Gradus ad Parnassum. I actually liked to read and study the book, because I indentified myself with the student Josephus, who is eager to learn everything about composition.

A "musician social network" ? Good idea! It also can help us know folk instruments and composition techniques. I'm a computer engineer and programmer, I may start writing something for that :D

I have always been a big admirer of this speech, having heard some other backing music put to it I thought I would try myself. What do you think??

Speechless. The video and audio are one. Thank you for sharing this beautiful artwork with us.

Yes, the music works very well with the narration. Sometimes instrumental music, benefits the human voice, whether singing or speaking.. It is a nice area to work in.. What a speech, amazing. Well done

While I don't generally listen to experimental music.. I do occasionally, and write it every once in a great while.. To me, it's something I appreciate, to 'cleanse my palette. It is also fun, to ignore all the music rules, and conditioning most of us have been infused with.. It is also an area, where a composer can create his own rules.. If they continue this path, they create their own grammar and syntax to use.. Part of it's appeal is it is different, and the conception someone breaks the rules. something some composers and some listener can appreciate or go out of their way to discover. The first synthesizers, were collections of electronic circuits, used for scientific projects, LFO', VCO's, Sine waves, VCA's etc.. So some of the first electronic pieces, were more often done by engineers, a collection of sounds, and processes. Many of these men, were not musicians per say. (some were).. Commercial synths, MOOG, and ARP, put all these separate modules into a box, with a patching system to connect things.. Other than Walter/Wendy Carlos, (who made the first commercially successful record of synths playing Bach);. Electronic music was largely blips, and beeps.. very experimental.. weird, off-putting, and also 'enticing' to some. Also experimental music can sound 'chaotic', because it ignores most harmonic, and music process our ears have become conditioned to appreciate. It's something some can appreciate as our world seems to become more chaotic.. Frank Zappa, had a wide variety of musical influences as a child and young man.. Some well known (in their circles) experimental composers, as well as classical and jazz. Although his first music was more rock.. He advanced towards more experimental and chaotic compositions, once he acquired one of the first Synclaviers (a synthesizer or even 'workstation').. It made first class, out of this world sounds.. As his music became more experimental (and to me chaotic) his audience changed.

This is excellent. Great build up and I could feel the intensity. It matches the video very well. Congrats!

Nice working version, nice ethnic feel.I would like to hear the final version with good library sounds, or even live!