A Calm Composition by 17 yr old Christoffer Hylander

A calm composition I made one evening, please tell me what you think :)

A Calm Composition by 17 yr old Christoffer Hylander

that was very nicely mixed =) it was very enjoyable to listen to. If it were longer, I would hope that you break out of the looped chords before it would get old... but again I liked the mixing

Christoffer

Welcome to YC

As was said this is mixed very well.

It felt like it was just getting started when it ended. I hope you decide to make it longer.

Ron

Hey Cool! I'm 17 too haha! I liked it but if felt more adventurous then calm at the end hehe. Enjoyable though!

Christoffer

Welcome to YC

As was said this is mixed very well.

It felt like it was just getting started when it ended. I hope you decide to make it longer.

Ron

Thanks Ron, I'm looking forward to share more of my longer works here :)

that was very nicely mixed =) it was very enjoyable to listen to. If it were longer, I would hope that you break out of the looped chords before it would get old... but again I liked the mixing

Thanks :) I will ofcourse share more of my longer works, this was just a short one I made up one evening. Yes I don't like it either when it's get looped to many times, often I make some A parts, B parts, and C parts, and more details within, thanks once again.

Overall nicely done!! I liked how the chords go into each other :) Not really much else to say, everyone else has said it already, but cool!!

Wow, impressive. Nice progressions, too!

Sounds like warriors are getting ready to battle, or nerds are studying for a test.

Very nice. I'd like to hear the rest when it's done.

When I listened to this I felt like I was listening to a dream sequence in a Final Fantasy-type (RPG). If you cut maybe ten tracks setting different kinds of moods/sequences, with the mixing quality as it is now you might just have some good material for a new game developer to work with... which could be great for you if that's your interest.

Thanks for sharing. Good stuff so far, keep submitting.

-AA

This is pretty nice, and I love it all the more, because of what Sepharite2 said: that was hysterically funny! xD

Seriously, though, this is very pretty, but it seriously felt exactly like what Ron said: it MUST be longer. It's like you're taunting us with AMAZING possibilities, and then you just end it. When the horn, or whatever that instrument is, started playing, I really wanted to see where it would go, and then...nothingness.

Please finish! Thanks for sharing!

You have a good universal sense on what the next note should go to fit. Are you planning on finishing this one?

Hi Chris,

I was kind of hoping for more out of this piece, to be honest. It's the same phrase repeated several times over Media Ventures chord progression #15, and it's not that that's a bad thing, but it seems as though you have a decent grasp of instrumentation and writing so you could have done a lot more with this in terms of orchestration, development, and variation.

It's unfinished, so with that in mind there's still plenty you could do with it, but in case you move on, keep in mind for future work that things like repeated melodic fragments and such lose a lot of their power if you offer them up to an audience "cheeseburger" style. In other words, you give them instant gratification. Cool theme! Wanna hear it again? OKAY! Again? OKAY! Again? OKAY!...if you structure your piece such that you're developing that thematic material, taking it in new directions, spinning it a different way, leaving it behind entirely for a while, and then returning to it in expanded form later on, you'll find that the effect is a lot more poignant. "Steak" style offering. Tougher to chew, but healthier and ultimately nicer to savour than a cheeseburger.

I think I better go have lunch before I slip into more food metaphors, but you get the idea. Thanks for sharing. :happy:

The theme is not bad, but it lacks at development, instrumentation, etc

So overall it's unfortunately pretty boring

Don't listen to the guy above. There was nothing constructive about his comment whatsoever. Besides it is not boring, it has the simplicity and yet the assurance of a piece heartily felt and emotionally expressive.

What is important about music, it is the idea that one should do what comes from one's heart and not what other people want to hear. Keep exploring little by little, and you will find wonderful things about your talent.

Best wishes!

Hi friend, I just realized you were registered here.

About this one, the the short strings tremolos starting at 0:34 were to me a nice and warm surprise. I kinda share the same feeling of the one who said "I think it was starting the time it was ending". Pity it was so short, and certainly, it is not boring. But I could I tell one would expect more development if you had made it longer. But, from what i already listened of your work, I trust you'd do it.

Beyond that, you already know what i think about your gifts.

See you.

Very relaxing this is. Would have preferred it to be a tad bit longer.

Looking forward to hearing more!

MORE!

haha wait you really ended it there? you couldn't have thought that was complete? I don't mean that in a mean way haha. It didn't even resolve! <img src="http://network.youngcomposers.com/elgg/ipb/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" alt=";)" />

and yes LOL at nerds studying for a test.

Hi Chris,

I was kind of hoping for more out of this piece, to be honest. It's the same phrase repeated several times over Media Ventures chord progression #15, and it's not that that's a bad thing, but it seems as though you have a decent grasp of instrumentation and writing so you could have done a lot more with this in terms of orchestration, development, and variation.

It's unfinished, so with that in mind there's still plenty you could do with it, but in case you move on, keep in mind for future work that things like repeated melodic fragments and such lose a lot of their power if you offer them up to an audience "cheeseburger" style. In other words, you give them instant gratification. Cool theme! Wanna hear it again? OKAY! Again? OKAY! Again? OKAY!...if you structure your piece such that you're developing that thematic material, taking it in new directions, spinning it a different way, leaving it behind entirely for a while, and then returning to it in expanded form later on, you'll find that the effect is a lot more poignant. "Steak" style offering. Tougher to chew, but healthier and ultimately nicer to savour than a cheeseburger.

I think I better go have lunch before I slip into more food metaphors, but you get the idea. Thanks for sharing. :happy:

also marius do you have a real list of "media venture" chord progressions? would be sweet to have for reference :)