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No worries, I appreciate the update!

Hi again, I wanted to provide an update. I have begun my annotations, but due to my schedule, it will be a few more days before I can confidently relay. I should have them by the end of the week if all goes well.

Hello @Grant Weep , thank you very much for this generous feedback! Oh, no, unfortunately this is no live performance and I am not playing either. The applause – I know that is somewhat embarrassing – is included for technical reasons only: I needed some „sound“ or „noise“ at the end of the video for the „outro“, i.e. when presenting the final slides and Youtube-cards. One the other hand, I had sometimes a problem that the video was stopped before the final chord if there were no such „trailing noise“. In some other of my videos I have chosen other „outro sounds“ which are perhaps more appropriate, such as the song of the nightingale or steps walking through autumn leaves or a street scene with an accordion etc. Haha, that’s interesting and funny! Since I’m not familiar with Pokémon games (or video games at all), this reminiscence must be completely unintentional. To be honest, I think I stuck very closely to my inspiration—namely, the fugato from Prelude BWV 852a—but if it’s not that obvious, that’s totally fine with me. And yes, I also particularly like the passage around 01:38, since that’s the section that really really brings some emotions of joy and summer – while the rest of the piece is much more melancholic. Thank you very much. I find this last paragraph particularly interesting. We’ve already had an interesting discussion here in the forum on the topic of “personal style”, and this kind of “personal voice” can only be perceived and evaluated by the listeners, not by the composer himself. And if you, on the one hand, find the harmonies somewhat “weird” or “unusual,” and on the other hand recognize them as rooted in traditional harmonic theory, I consider that a great compliment. I initially based my first steps in composition on the model of Bach’s contrapuntal works, but now, after some time, I greatly appreciate that my works are not (longer) considered as exercises in imitating Bach’s fugues, but rather reveal influences from other, more contemporary composers, without coming across as completely “atonal” or “destructive”. My compositional approach—that is, my method of working—remains contrapuntal and therefore very “head-heavy“, which may explain the “muted” emotional level (or, perhaps, it is a matter of my (German) nationality?).

You're welcome! I'm confident in your ability with Ai and it will be very entertaining, too! My record label creates with Ai then we reproduce it with an actual band. It's a fun process! It's interesting to see what's possible with Ai then create the human composition in studio. It's somehow meaningful in that way. Do you create live versions of your Ai creations?

Maybe a little bit yes, I think most of what I write imitate or tries to imitate baroque style, even if I don't really intend it 😆. I didn't really knew how to write something longer/with less repetition on so short "theme", that was I think main problem here... If you could write, what could be done to achieve this, it would be very nice :)

The deadline is 10/30, so two weeks from now really. I am currently working the such optimizations you included above, as well as others (weird tempo/mood marks, slurs, consistent rhythms, etc.). I will post an updated PDF of such basic optimizations before the weekend. Your time and effort is greatly appreciated. In case you read this again, this files have been updated above