Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Young Composers Music Forum

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Horrible, terrible, attrocious, just plain BAD music: MAKE IT!

Featured Replies

  • Replies 78
  • Views 5.3k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

javileru -

Unfortunately you have way too many good ideas cobbled together to win. Seriously ... I think you could pull a nice long sonata movement and slow movement from this ...

Though I love it just seems to run out of steam and just adds more stuff - kind of an antidevelopment.

  • Author

I posted my reviews, buuut there are a couple of entries that don't work or I couldn't review them because I don't have sibelius. Oops. There is still time though as I have not yet said my FINAL VEREDICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, yeah, thanks to everyone who participated. Those were some interesting 4 hours of listening to this crap, thx.

haha, this was brilliant.. :lol: . I think we should have this competition every year!

haha, this was brilliant.. :lol: . I think we should have this competition every year!

I absolutely agree, this was incredibly fun!

Also, I absolutely love the review of my piece: I made that song by randomly putting in notes in the measures! At first I thought it was suitably terrible, but the piece started, slowly, to grow on me...and to my complete shock, people started reviewing it and saying it was awesome! And now, I can see why: it's a strangely addictive piece... this is awesomely ironic, if you ask me...I may even change the name now!

Again, kudos to you, SSC, this was a brilliant idea! :D

"I posted my reviews, buuut there are a couple of entries that don't work or I couldn't review them because I don't have sibelius. Oops. There is still time though as I have not yet said my FINAL VEREDICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

OMG! I get a chance to redeem myself!!!...Well, in a manner of speaking, anyways! :D

Awww drat... I failed :(

Yeah, but it's a win-win scenario with this contest: if you win, you have the satisfaction of winning...if you lose, you have the satisfaction of, well, losing! If you can't make a very bad piece, that's pretty awesome news, if you ask me :D

Thanks SSC for the in depth reviews ... 4 hours of listening to this ????/ Egad.

And darn I didn't win yet another competition. Glad you liked my title for the piano piece. And total agreement that the piano piece is WORSE than the marching band piece which had a bit too many interesting ideas in it. That is why I submitted a second entry. Upon relistening to the first piece a few times I agreed I came up with some cool textures (accidentally) and the drums and cymbals gave it a nice Ivesian flair against some of the Glass like stuff. I guess I thought it was bad initially as I just didn't spend anytime listening to marching band music or exploring the instruments capabilities. Rather I let the computer music notation lead me. Which I think is a dicey strategy when composing any piece because you are far less aware of what you are doing or when something truly accidental works.

On the other hand, the piano piece I just recalled my classmates stumbling badly to transpose Schubert vocal accompaniment up or down a half step or haphazardly reading c clefs and treble clefs for score reading.

Oh yeah and I spent LESS than 10 minutes on both pieces. Just my view that laziness MAY make a bad piece.

Thanks again. This is definitely something to do once a year --- and the end of the year is a great time to do it - everyone could use a competition where they are not pressured to write a masterpiece or submit perfect assignments.

... It's weird but I'm kind of looking forward to the results for this competition (even though it is a bit of a...strange...one). I most definately second composerorganist's idea of making this an annual competition!

It's probably too late to get in on this, but I don't care. :) This whole concept is just irresistible.

I'm posting an experimental piece for wind quintet I wrote in 2002. It's a study in major and minor seconds, treated melodically and harmonically, as well as in texture and tone colour. In the course of this experiment that when I placed the harmonic intervals very close together or far apart, I achieved totally different kinds of sound by manipulating the overtone series.

Beyond that, I'm not sure what value it has as music...it is a bit hypnotic at times, I suppose. But though I learnt a little something from it, I consider it probably the most absurd thing I've ever written. I have to laugh that I could even think of something like this, considering what my primary focus is.

Secondi - experiment for woodwind quintet

  • Author

It's never too late to participate. I'll update the reviews with heckel's second piece and J.lee's later.

This is my latest entry: this one is, in my opinion, definitely a contender for the worst one yet.

http://www.youngcomposers.com/pg/Music/SergeOfArniVillage/composition?entry=25636

I wanted to make something truly, irredeemably awful (after the debacle that was The Most Harribel Thang, in a sense, anyways), and I think I've realy succeeded :D

Serge, that was aimless and insipid, but I don't know that it was horrible enough to win. It's not my decision to make, though.

Still redeemable, huh? :hmmm: Dern! It's too exhausting to work more on it though! Dx

Serge...it was the most boring thing known to mankind and then suddenly at the end BOOOOOM!!!!!! I personally don't think it's as bad as the other entry, it's just drab and dull until the boom scares you to death.

Serge...it was the most boring thing known to mankind and then suddenly at the end BOOOOOM!!!!!! I personally don't think it's as bad as the other entry, it's just drab and dull until the boom scares you to death.

*Sighs* :\ Why does it depress me so that I can't sink to the utter depths of musical banality and lameness? :(

  • 2 weeks later...

Here's mine. It took me the lesser part of a second to write. Hope you like it!

P.S. Actually, Insanity is my real entry for this competition. I actually wrote this some time ago. My greatest composition, by far.

Haha, that's funny! It's bad, but at least it doesn't waste anyone's time! :lol: :lol: :lol:

  • 2 weeks later...

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.