Archived Introductions

It's just I don't like Hentai, maybe you do, whatever makes the new members comfortable

...Hentai is anime PORN.

WE DON'T DO PORN HERE... just tasteful women with their shirts off... that happened to be completely create by pixels...

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I thought Hentai was also those kind of draws ....

No, of course we don't do Porn in here, ... actually it took me a while to find a "proper" picture of the edecanes....

I thought Hentai was also those kind of draws ....

No, of course we don't do Porn in here, ... actually it took me a while to find a "proper" picture of the edecanes....

Hentai is porn... Anime isn't. That's how it works. lolz.

Hentai = anime porn

Hentai = anime porn

Right. Well.. this is gonna look GREAT for new members... lolztastic!

umm haha, yes... *gets all adminly like* lets get back on topic now kiddies :D

Hello I am sylvia....Violin:thumbsup:

Why HELLO there! I am Morivou, I compose mostly choral music! Welcome to YC... and since the greeting party is a ten year old and is in the shoutbox...

WELCOME TO :yc:

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR STAY... and DON'T KILL THE CATS!!! (or the pandas... please...)

(or something like that...)

Hello I am sylvia....Violin:thumbsup:

A new member! Yippee! Welcome!

See, that's the cat we tell Berlioz NOT to kill... and I am the panda that Berlioz has already killed... I would show you pictures, but they're gruesome. lolz.

Welcome to YC!!!!!!!

:yc:

We need activity in the wiki! Contribute in anyway possible....its fun :shifty:

hahaha.

Hello. I am Andrew Schneider, and I am 18. I've played piano for 11 years and sketched down musical ideas since I was 8. However, I've only been making projects that I could reasonably show to the world at large since I was 16. I am mostly self-taught, but I don't know how easy it would be to tell. I am going to study composition at Rice. I hope to be a doctor of music, probably conducting.

I have not been much of a fan of piano competitions, and have rarely performed in public. However, my performance repertoire includes the complete Carnival of the Animals as a guest with my high school orchestra.

When I have a lot of time on my hands (vacation, for instance), I have been extremely productive and ambitious by several standards. It's easy to be so when I'm not obsessed with being original. And really, I've only started to notice traces of originality in the past year. My belief is that originality comes naturally. Really, I'm a natural eclectic who likes to piece things together in new ways, but still conforming to the time-honored forms.

I've also been in the high school choir for the past 4 years, and it has helped me strive to remain accessible to the public, but always having the last word. I just love leading them along but quashing their expectations at the last moment, which is fun to do in standard forms where people actually have expectations. (Reminding them that we are still in the 21st century, but not overtly.)

My production in this past year has still surprised me. But I've had good inspiration, mostly from friends who are girls. And I think big. My oeuvre from June 2008-August 2009 alone includes:

4 string quartets, written from June 2008 to May 2009

23 a cappella choral pieces for 3-6 voices, mostly motets and secular chansons in Renaissance style with distinctly modern surprises, all written from June 2009-July 2009

1 sonata for solo flute

1 partita for solo violin

The string quartets are on a grand scale and are really symphonies for four instruments. It's a reaction out of my discovery of late Haydn and my concern for the potential underestimation of the genre as light and easy. The first, in B-flat, composed over the span of less than a month, lasts 50 minutes and is based on Gilbert and Sullivan melodies that one would never think to hear together otherwise, but is not a medley. The second, in F, my experiment in brevity, composed over 3 weeks in the aftermath of Ike, lasts only 12 minutes, but is only in two movements, a moderato and a moto perpetuo. (The Beethoven fans can tell which sonata I was inspired by there.) The third, composed over two to three months, in A, lasts 45 minutes. The fourth, in g minor, composed over eight months, the one I am proudest of, lasts 42 minutes. The slow movements of all these are essentially songs without words. I will prescribe that these slow movements can be played alone in concert, as well as the finale of the B-flat quartet, which is a set of 31 variations and double fugue on "When I was a lad" from Pinafore. They are my musical theatre pieces.

If possible, I'll try posting MIDI files of these, but only will reserve scores for when I create a website capable of accepting payments. I hope I'll be safe from copyright infringers here.

I was accepted into Rice on the basis of the first three quartets, an orchestral chorale prelude that I conducted, and a madrigal for 5 voices which took second place in the TMTA Young Composers' Contest. I am certainly anxious to see how productive any other incoming students are. I am also interested in performing piano chamber music.

Is this a rather long introductory post? I hope to soon offer proof of all that I say here. I don't compose just for the purpose of doing so, but for offering vehicles of self-expression to the public. Has anyone else here been similarly productive? I hope so, because then I won't feel alone.

*smirks* Choral works!!! Morivou LIKES!! Get your butt over to the choral forum and flood it! I want more SHTUFF there.

And yes, my compositional views are similar, only I am not professional. I am going to be a lawyer. haha. But, I have already done college music studies at a college, so I don't want or need a degree.

I also have only had one work performed... :[ See. Here in my neck of the woods, nobody wants to do new works. GRRRR.

But, whatever. I like you!

Hey guys! just found this site by accident and been looking around. REALLY want to get involved :D!

Anyways, Im Aaron. Im 19 and from Ireland. Currently studying Music in College, just finished my first year. By the sounds of things im a late blommer on the compositional front, I really started taking composing seriously just before i started college this year. I have a few things in the pipeline at the mo and have had one work performed a few months ago :D! hopefully many more to come.

My principle instrument would be voice, but followed closely by Clarinet! Hopefully see yas around and get advice and such off you more experianced composers out there!

I happen to be writing a sonata for solo clarinet in A at this point. The first movement is taking shape, a set of variations on a forlorn theme, in which I have am going to have the clarinet subtly imitate birds.

Welcome Andrew (you beat me again Morivou! :facepalm:) Welcome Zephler! (I beat you to it Morivou, Omar!)

I hope you both enjoy this site a lot, and have a good time composing!!!!!

GO TO SLEEP, HECKEL!!! IT'S EARLY!!! Darnit... it's like every morning is Christmas with you...

I've enjoyed composing for one year. You just have to know whom you're writing for. Not just for those people here who sometimes consider it little more than a hobby for their gratification. I consider myself to be on a quest to convince people that there is more to the 21st century than mere imitators of the twelve-tone masters. I need to conduct a survey on this forum: has anybody here written a string quartet lasting more than 40 minutes in 4 movements?

I consider myself to be on a quest to convince people that there is more to the 21st century than mere imitators of the twelve-tone masters.

Who thinks that?????

Who thinks that?????

I live in Texas, where the young composers' competitions are not very many compared to in New England. Many of the young composers simply want to put everything they know into one piece as if they couldn't think of anything else. Add to that that many of them can't modulate out of tonic-dominant harmonies, and twelve-tone imitation as a means of "generating" an idea emerges, but most of these pieces are boring and could end at any moment without uproar.

Therefore, my answer is: a conservative who has written four string quartets in Classical style and who believes that sonata form and fugue are the only things keeping society from collapsing, and who knows that Schoenberg is a master of structure. A proud, curmudgeonly conservative whose soul is 70 but whose body is 18.

And an antiquarian who prefers the classics to modern literature.

I live in Texas, where the young composers' competitions are not very many compared to in New England. Many of the young composers simply want to put everything they know into one piece as if they couldn't think of anything else. Add to that that many of them can't modulate out of tonic-dominant harmonies, and twelve-tone imitation as a means of "generating" an idea emerges, but most of these pieces are boring and could end at any moment without uproar.

Therefore, my answer is: a conservative who has written four string quartets in Classical style and who believes that sonata form and fugue are the only things keeping society from collapsing, and who knows that Schoenberg is a master of structure. A proud, curmudgeonly conservative whose soul is 70 but whose body is 18.

And an antiquarian who prefers the classics to modern literature.

You should look at the YC map... I too live in Texas. ;) I know exactly what you're talking about... but up here in the DFW area, I am one of the FEW classical (well.. I am contemporary-classical) composers left. There ARE NO competitions here. I only know of two other people like you around... and that is Juan Carlos Enriques Sanchez and Alex Vourtsanis. They both went to my high school. You sound JUST like Alex, so I can relate to you. I can understand what you mean from his perspective about your dislike of Modern Musical techniques. It's interesting: he criticized me not too long ago for my compositions not being "serious" enough... and I wonder if you have a similar opinion... lolz.

Well, anyway! Have fun around here!

Really? I thought there would have been more competitions in Dallas, given that at one recent TMTA competition hosted in my home city of Houston, most of the winners came from the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington/Plano, etc. area. I was one of only maybe two people who represented Houston.

Hi Andrew. Welcome to YC. I didnt read your post. IT was long and I am lazy. :D

Hi Andrew. Welcome to YC. I didnt read your post. IT was long and I am lazy. :D

And I am exactly the opposite: I am lazy yet write string quartets lasting 3/4 of an hour.

But I broke everything down into teeny little paragraphs.