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Hi all, I’m looking for composers to contribute graphic scores for a score exchange project. Participants will upload graphic scores and there will be an open invitation for musicians to respond with an audio recording of their own personal interpretation of the score. Submissions should be for open instrumentation only (for any number of instruments), and not for specific instrumentation. You are encouraged to consider shape, colour, size, placement, words etc. Responses may be wide ranging - from digital art, to abstract painting, and video score/animation. Graphic notation can give a voice to musicians who find traditional notation limiting yet have the desire to express themselves through composition. Submission is open to anyone who is interested, not just professional composers. This online space will present opportunities for musicians and amateurs to interact and collaborate virtually. A driving motive behind the project is to bring people together in the time of social isolation. If you feel you need some inspiration, this article is a great place to start: https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2013/oct/04/graphic-music-scores-in-pictures Alternatively, some examples of text scores if this is more your thing: Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit, George Brecht’s Water Yam Pauline Oliveros’ ‘Sonic Meditations Here is a link to the Google Form: https://forms.gle/eVyAo1e6UP1XQqmcA Thanks! Eliza 😊

I had a creativity outburst at the beginning of the pandemic, and wrote many pieces. In this it's a fanfare following a late-Romantic, slightly cinematic aesthetic, reminiscent of Korngold and Richard Strauss. When I posted this piece in another place, a player of the Sophia's Vereeniging symphonic band of the Netherlands asked me if they could play the piece, and I said that of course. There've been some rehearsals, but they had to be postponed after yet another spike in Coronavirus cases. The score can be seen here: https://albertdelaf.com/op13_en/

Country road-John Denver!

This is an early piano work of mine ... The Gypsy Woman's Lament. The old woman tells her story as sits in front of wood burning fire ......

I like it. It's short, but it feels complete because the form is effective--there's an element of departure and return, and a winding down over the last 2 lines so that the end doesn't feel premature. Everything feels like it happens at the right time, and I really like that you don't waste any notes or drag things out unnecessarily. It's obviously very Chopin-inspired, but there are some nice harmonic quirks that make it your own. It might be fun to explore the things that make this different from Chopin, and try to make those things the focus of a future composition. (That last bit is the kind of thing I'd suggest as an assignment for my composition students, so apologies if it seems patronizing. I really enjoyed the music.)

Hey everyone! I'm inviting you to check my new piano solo "Wasted Tears"

Thats really impressive!!

Thank you so much for listening and your feedback! The harmony is only 3 chords 😉 I'm always trying to maximize the feelings with minimum harmony changes

Hello, Just when I walked along the fish market, I have came up with this theme and developed a choral piece. It is originally a solo recording only but I remixed it with tune-shifter libraries in Cakewalk. It is sort of a free form creation so I don't have any scores for it. I am not sure what do you think about this soundtrack, but I really wish you can enjoy it. The pictures are drawn by me to sort of give a description of the story. Fun fact, the "dub-dub" sound are real sounds recorded in the original recording, when my mother was chopping some ingredients in the background. I think it is quite interesting to include in this context, so I kept it. Thank you. HoYin

It's down to individual works: Led Zeppelin 1 Pink Floyd: Saucerful, Atom Heart Mother; Dark Side of the Moon. (Thereafter they seemed to go into decline, to me). Strawberry Switchblade: Anything but their full commercial album.

The musical history of the Schola choir is a fascinating and diverse one. The group has been featured in television and radio programmes, including the BBC2 show ‘The Voice’, ‘The Voice’’s Kitchen’ and ‘The Voice’s UK’s Best Singer’.

Pretty much Strauss reincarnated which I think was your intent. Good job!

Yep ... it definitely sounds like a Strauss waltz. My only suggestion is maybe the brass could also carry the melody at times - with maybe a touch of variation on the theme.

I just realized this thread was posted in the wrong place, and moved it to the Repertoire, where it seems to belong.