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Hi everyone, I'm in the process of uploading as much of my music as I can on youtube, cuz what good does it do sitting around in my computer huh? Anyway, here's my second piano sonata as it was performed in 2016. It's divided into 3 movements and all three movements are following the typical sonata-form conventions to some degree or another. It took around 4 months to write the score and around 6 months in rehearsal time to get it performed to an acceptable degree. The third movement is specially challenging, but I think it sounds cool. Either way, have fun.

I feel kind of weird not posting as much music as I once did. I've been busy with music, but mostly learning songs from this band I'm in. Since this site has revamped a few times, a lot of what I've posted has been lost, so I decided to share some pieces I've written in the past as a way for anyone interested to hear some of the stuff I've done. Even though a lot of what I'll post in these here "archives" are works I probably won't edit or revise, I'm always open and would love to hear some of your thoughts and critiques for the future. This was an experiment with quartal and quintal harmonies, and building them with sustained and elastic chords. I remember trying to make music interesting without the focus being on a melody. The goal was to depict the ocean with lots of color and texture. I wanted odd melodic phrases to blend and blur. There weren't any intentions to extend this as part of a multi-movement suite or anything, but hey, if there were ever a prospect of a performance than maybe. I'm someone who loves to see a score, but sadly I wrote this entirely in Cubase so no presentable score. At some point I'll maybe notate it all out. I hope you enjoy!

Any feedback would be appreciated. I dont know whether the piece works.

Thank you for the review and suggestions! The engraving advice is well received. I am please you are getting to know my style of work. And of course of you enjoy the work - all the better!

Here is the link to my albums: Spirito Musicale I hope you enjoy!

Thank you Jared for taking the time to review my work and for your detailed comments. I agree with you about repeats, in the 18th century repeats were nearly always varied with ornamentation and embellishment and I've been looking into how performers would go about doing this and after a bit of Google exploring I found an essay written in the 1700's on the subject. In it the author laments about the decline of variation in performances of repeated sections and he details how to tastefully vary the music to avoid monotony. It occurred to me that whenever I compose I should leave out the repeat bars and just copy and paste the section and then vary it according to how performers would have done so back then. I'll take a closer look at my engraving and see what I can do to polish the presentation of the piece.

Oh, this is the first time I hear a pitched speech synthetizer. Damn, will it be a great news for people who can't sing when they come up with a more realistic-sounding version 😛 I have to say I didn't really enjoy listening, but this has nothing to do with your wrting. I was simply put off by this robotic voice. Otherwise, I do admire the simplicity of your melodies, and of your wrting in general (I remember listening to another work that was also strikingly simple, yet sounded really pleasant and "efficient"). Simplifying my stuff is something I am myself trying to work on, so hopefully I'll getinspiration from you 🙂

LoL - now that I know what the words are I can't help getting the feeling that it's some kind of Dada-ist poem that you've set. Or I can imagine some kind of indigenous child uttering it's first words or trying to express some kind of deep meaning about the celestial panorama. Still - enjoyable to listen to!

I've listen it before, but I concentrate more when I listen with the score. It's quite a dramatic and impressive piece. The interaction of the strings with the piano is very good. thanks for sharing

You have to make an honest assessment about where you are in your musical development. One doesn't expect a first-year Spanish student to write a novel in the language, but to start out with simple exercises based on proper grammar. I agree somewhat with MJFOBE, although I would not attempt anything in sonata form. Harmonized melody in basic song form, AABA, is a good exercise. Side note: The arpeggiated dhords are very Philip Glass. Was that intentional? Cheers Jer

Boo!