Scriabin Sunset

Thought this was very very good indeed, very good gentle build up, very nice moments and theme, and that awesome chord that changes the mood.

I think you missed out on expanding the theme you introduced at the start, which there is lots that could have been done. I dont think the last 2mins do anything for the piece, all i could see while listening to those last 2mins or so was an old black and white film with a monster coming into a house where a woman lies sleeping and the monster getting closer and closer. However if you meant that then great. While listening to the start i could actually hear that melody being expanded and introduced into the whole orchestra as an alternative ending rather the one you did. You could actually improve upon that melody aswell, and harmonise it better. Here is my suggestion in bar 7 you end the theme on the G with a tie, if it were me i would have gone up to the A at the start of bar 8, then repeated the theme on a piccolo, and that point i would have introduced more colourful orchestration to give the impression of moonlight. Its a strong theme you have begin with and you could do so much more with it. If i had the time i would actually score it to let you hear what i mean. Anyway good luck with composing.

Sorry for my rather short comment, no no i wasnt meaning anything to do with form, as regards to that, i think from beginning to end you make a cohesive structure, i listened to it a few more times before coming back. For me listening to it, as i said i really enjoyed the 1st minute, but then those next 3mins for me just seem to be stuck in some muddy ditch. Its hard to describe, its like there wasnt any momemtum, it sounded a bit plodding. Now what i liked about the 1st min comes back again from 4mins onwards and i enjoyed it again, i just felt those middle 3mins seemed to lose focus. I hope i explained myself better, and im glad i listened to piece a few more times and got a bit more out if it.

Very cool piece, sounds like it could come from a Tim Burton animation, quite sinister and dark sounding.

Very good, lovely sounding piece, definitely can hear this as the end credits. I would say this its one of the more focused musically from beginning to end that ive heard on these boards. You certainly have an ear for musical development in pieces. I listened to With Glory in their eyes, it does sound quite similar in terms of harmonies, but its a very well done piece, only bit i wasnt keen on was the nee naw police siren sounds at about 3:25mins from the clarinets or flutes not sure which. This could actually be the starting credits to The Meadows end credits.

I thought the 1st minute was quite beautiful and interesting, but i found the next 4 minutes didnt hold my interest. I just thought it didnt develop into anything.

Well i didnt hear any Mozart, Beethoven or Rach, quite possibly the tiniest amount of Gershwin. It had more of a Jamaican blues feel to it, with the rhythm's going on. I didnt like it, very much the sound of a studenty type work. Then i had a listen to the sonata for flute, guitar and percussion, the sonata for cello and piano and short piece for flute quartet, and i had almost given up hope of finding any interesting music on your myspace site, when i thought what the hell i'll click on the cosmic rain dance. Did you suddenly become possessed by the spirit of Messiaen and Gaubert????:O This is 20 million light years away from that other stuff on your site. The cosmic rain dance is very very good indeed. While the other music lacks any creative spark and sounds like music by numbers the cosmic rain dance is stuffed full of wonderful moments and inventiveness. Is that you playing? My only critique would be that its too long, and would start to tire the listener with its improvisatory feel but i understand you were probably just going with the flow.

I enjoyed this piece however for me its about 3 or 4mins too long as the music doesnt really change that much. The 1st 3mins are very nicely done, but then the next 3mins just feel like musical padding without much invention. When we get to the 6min mark it gets a bit more interesting, and then the last 2mins or so returns to the similar sound of the 1st 3 to 6 mins. If it was me id get rid of 3mins worth of music from the 1st 6mins. As it does get a bit boring, im sure it would work as background music but as purely music it just lacks creative spark. But again your piece is very nicely orchestrated, i just feel your better at short pieces of say 3 to 4 mins as your musical ideas for me dont quite justify being 9mins in length.

"Thank you Christopher for taking time to listen to this music. Your absolutely right. technically, God was there before matter. maybe I should've named it God creating matter and planets"? :toothygrin:Technically space, planets, stars, matter, dark matter, black holes, supernovas, white dwarfs, red dwarfs, atoms, chemical elements were there before man came on the scene and it was man over the last 8000, to 10,000 that created what is known as religion and therefore where God comes from.:P But lets not discuss religion lol:whistling: Let music do the talking:)

I thought the piece started off dramatically enough, the images i got were of going through a dark spooky forest, which seemed to be set up nicely with that G, A, Bb, A, C, G theme. But the piece went on and more repetition of that G, A, Bb, A, C, G theme, and then it came in again and again. I felt we never really got anywhere Dawn definitely didnt come. I havent looked at the score but it felt like you stayed in the key of G minor the entire piece. It was more lurking in a dark forest with evil spirits. It has a nice dark atmosphere to it so thats my positive, i just feel you need to explore a bit more to where that theme can take you without repeating it like a mantra. I dont like being negative but i feel there is a good piece waiting to come out it just needs to be found.

I loved your piece The love i cant have. Thought it was 3mins of beauty. This piece i half liked and half didnt, the starting 3mins are beautifully set up and orchestarted, but then for me the music loses focus, although i loved some of the orchestartion around the 5min mark. After those 1st 3mins i was always waiting for something to happen but for me the music doesnt really change much. It just has some nice orchestration but not really much else in terms of musical invention, which for me the piece really is lacking after those intial 3mins. You have always have an awesome sound to your works though. Looking forward to the next one.

I think we will have to agree to disagree on this one, i listened to the piece again since you felt there were discernable melodies, i'll rephrase you have written melodies and motifs but they are weak against good orchestration. Music can sometimes just have a mood and doesnt need a melody to bring out the music, but again if you are arguing a case for that, Supernova is still weak in those terms. I listened to your ballade for piano, which i quite enjoyed, very Satie like. The best piece i have heard of yours.:toothygrin: Ive listened to the 1st movement of your Time symphony, and for me it suffers the same as Supernova, its good orchestartion but the music is weak, there is nothing individual or interesting, that would make me want to listen to this music again, for me i just find the music lacks interest, there is no unexpected melodic turns, its all very predictable. But as i said when you are older you may develop into someone who can continue and improve on your already very good orchestration techniques along with music of that is of substance. But the most important thing is that the composer is happy with what they have written, im just a passing what i felt as a listener while listening to your music.

I thought your piece was very well orchestarted, and very well done at only 18. However my only reall complaint is that for me its not really memorable, there is no discernable melody, like John Williams would have given us. Granted you are young so you may develop into someone who can meld great orchestration combined with melodies. For me the Horn part, i havent looked at the score, but the section that goes from D#, B, A#, G, D#, G, im not sure if its in sharps or flats so it could be Eb, but im sure you know the bit. For it doesnt seem to go anywhere, the melody itself again i say to my ears wasnt very interesting. It wasnt until you got to the 13:25 mark and the melody that just comes after, its reminiscent of a Lord of the Rings melody, i thought yes you've got it, thats what ive been waiting for in this piece, something thats very interesting. That should have been a theme that you could have developed on earilier in the piece, there is so many possibilities in that small teasing fragment you gave us towards the end. 14mins i thought was too long for the musical ideas that were presented, it could easily have been half the length. Overall very good orchestration but just needing to work on themes and thematic development, especially when writing in a filmic type way oh and a great last 50secs:toothygrin:

1st thing i should say is i dont really listen to baroque music, Busoni's piano reworkings of Bach's is the closest thing i get, although i do like Bach's viola da gamba sonata's. I liked your sinfonia in d minor best, very bachian. You certainly how to compose baroque, i knew someone from Norway once and they were obsessed with Baroque music aswell, is everyone in Norway the same thing:P

very nice little piece, ive read lots of references to Barber, however i would strongly disagree. I feel this is more akin to the english composers such as Ireland, Howells, Moeran, it has that pastoral melancholic feel that is so prevalent in their small works for strings. Lovely string writing and i didnt mind the pizz.:D