Henry Ng Tsz Kiu

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Hi @L.S Barros, I do like the piece! It's simple and easy but also enjoyable and light hearted, and the dance rhythm is well noted. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hi @ferrum.wav! I thoroughly enjoy this one! This combination is fascinating and I especially love the celesta throughout the whole piece, it really gives an imaginative sound here! The motives are very apparent and coherent in the whole piece. Really the only thing I am less agreed with is the introduction of the voice at near the end of the piece. When I am listening to this, I am truly shocked when a female voice appear and sing the lyrics! Maybe it's just the poor AI generated sound, but I do think you can just remain instrumental music here since it's so well developed and colorful before the voice emerges. Or if it's a real voice it will be much better, but I think instrumets alone would be enough. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hi @Monarcheon! It's so smart and creativer for you to divide the original Jingle Bells melody to different segments and place between interlude passages like the tremolos. Those techniques like sul ponticello, tasto, vibrato and harmonics are really used with great effect, and as you say, the implied timbres are super important for this to really give a refreshingly new look to an otherwise clichéd melody! You are just too humble! Your playing is so good here and I promise I enjoy it wholeheartedly! Thx very much for playing this yourself, the computer rendition would be umch worse than your playing! Also, thank you for joining the event and becoming more active again in the forum! P.S. Honestly if Peter didn't sneak in giving you a badge first, I would give you one too! You totally deserve the "String Aficionado" badge! Henry

Hi Pabio @Fugax Contrapunctus! This is an absolute achievement to write an 8 part counterpoint with this beautiful effect! I myself wrote a 6 part one and felt like it's killing my brain, but an 8 part would sure will my whole body! The rhythm is so well used here to create space for each voice's counterpoint so the whole thing is smooth and flowing. Since it's an 8 part motet, all those "oddities" aren't odd at all! With more voices for sure the "rules" can be more lenient. The sonority is very rich and nothing feels wrong here! And this one is very fitting to the Christmas setting! Thx very much for submitting this wonderful piece and joining the event! Henry

Hi @J. Lee Graham! This is a really enjoyable fugue using the festive tune. I agree with all things said above especailly what @Monarcheon and @muchen_ said. The use of schematas like the Monte is very well noted throughout the piece. I can't stop myself to post one of my earlier piece here two years ago, because I also use a Christmas tune (Jingle Bells) plus parodying one of @Thatguy v2.0 tune for a double fugue haha: Thx very much for sharing this funny piece and joining the event! Henry

Hi @TristanTheTristan, This is a nice classical style piece of music. It reminds me a lot of Bee's Emperor Concerto. Is this one related to the Christmas theme? I notice some of the playablitiy issue, for example in b.25 2nd movement the left hand will be too fast to be played. There are a lot of themes and texture throughout the piece. I don't take lots of effort into reading the whole music, but how are those materials related to each other?😗 Thx for sharing and joining the event! Henry

Hello @Musicman_3254! Welcome to the forum and thx for joining the Christmas event! That's a really long submission and honestly I only listen to the first few minutes for it haha. It's nice to use an orchestra for it. Base on what I heard, maybe you can add some more layers in the music! Thx for sharing. Henry

I certainly like the dreamy effect and the imitations between the instruments, as well as the polyrhythms. One thing I love less is the parallel octaves between the instruments' imitations, for example in b.2 and 3 bewteen soprano and violin. I think the instrument combination is creating great effect here, as I like the guitar here. Thx for sharing! Henry

Haha it's also just an instinct to start on form first, nothing smart in it. I just really love forms in the 1st place and luckily have some really good books on it in my school library so I can study on my own as early as possible. Maybe becoz of that, I suffer from "gee what comes next" syndrome more! I cannot just care whether the harmonic progressions work, but also how to make sense of each passages and their transitions! Henry

But why covering basics would be annoying? 🤪 I myself, weirdly take form as my first approach to composing, but not harmony and counterpoint. Maybe that's why I have to write longer pieces instead of shorter ones now.

You can just reply to your topic with a new post posting the edited music, or if you don't want to retain the old version, just simply edit the original post with the edited version of the music. Henry

Hey Chris I know your agitation, because it seems to you that we are doing nothing on the AI issue on the forum. But the truth is, we as staff are taking a lot of time to discuss the whole issue and the settling down of it, at one point even very fiercely. (I'm sure you don't want to know how we argue) It's a really big issue so we need to be 100% clear on how we should handle it, since it could have affected the whole future of YC forum. It is because we as composers all know how precious it is for us to use our time to compose, so we need to handle it very carefully so no one's works would be depreciated on the forum, and the positive culture can be maintained. So, can you give us a bit more time Chris? Henry

Hey @therealAJGS, This one is surely festive and light hearted as we all can hear in the grocery shops and supermarkets this month lol. The ending is quite funny haha. Thx for sharing! Henry