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"Dreamscapes" - Satisfaction Survey

PeterthePapercomPoser
in Monthly Competitions

"Dreamscapes" Chamber Music Composition Competition - Satisfaction Survey 10 members have voted

  1. 1. How satisfied are you with the "Dreamscapes" Competition?

    • Satisfied
      60%
      6
    • Neutral
      40%
      4
    • Dissatisfied
      0%
      0

  2. 2. If you didn't participate in the competition, why not?

    • I participated
      90%
      9
    • Found out too late/Didn't have enough time
      10%
      1
    • Didn't know about the competition
      0%
      0
    • Didn't like the theme/Didn't find the theme inspiring
      0%
      0
    • Don't consider myself a competition composer
      0%
      0
    • Other (please reply to this thread and voice your opinion!)
      0%
      0

  3. 3. If you didn't participate in the popular voting, why not?

    • Too much listening time/effort involved
      8%
      1
    • Didn't know about the polls
      8%
      1
    • Didn't care/think it mattered
      8%
      1
    • Didn't think the awards were appropriate to the competition
      8%
      1
    • I participated
      66%
      8
    • Other (please reply to this thread and voice your opinion!)
      0%
      0

  4. 4. What did you think of the YouTube video premiere of the results and winners of the competition?

    • It was a great way to advertise the competition participants and Young Composers Forum to a wider audience!
      18%
      2
    • It unnecessarily delayed the release of the competition results.
      18%
      2
    • It was cool but let the participants know ahead of time next time.
      63%
      7
    • Other (please reply to this thread and voice your opinion!)
      0%
      0

  5. 5. Would you be more likely to participate in future competitions if the following things were changed?

    • Make the judges reviews published only to the individual entrants.
      4%
      1
    • Make the names of the judges secret/anonymous.
      8%
      2
    • Make the entry requirements more stringent for new users to Young Composers Forum.
      12%
      3
    • Offer bigger monetary prizes even though it might mean having an entry fee.
      12%
      3
    • Offer no monetary prizes.
      12%
      3
    • Disallow live recordings/works composed previously to the competition announcement
      25%
      6
    • Allow entrants to participate in tiered divisions based on skill (have advanced composers compete only with other advanced composers and beginners only with other beginners).
      20%
      5
    • Other (please reply to this thread and voice your opinion!)
      4%
      1

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Please fill out the survey to help the staff organize better competitions in the future!  The survey is anonymous so we can't see who chose which responses.

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    Make participants use their real name?

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    Since you are asking us to "reply in the thread and voice your opinion!", here's mine:

    I did not participate in the competition because I am not really for the ranking of compositions/composers. Each composer/composition is unique and it is only a subjective judgement that would assume to place one above or below the other. Also, the impact of my piece being ranked by far the lowest of all the participants' in the previous competition was too much for me to take. So, I didn't participate in order to protect myself from a potentially similar outcome and impact.

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    Personally, I'm not much of "competition composer" so my opinions on this don't matter, but I was just thinking about question number 5.

    There are a couple of things that come to mind for me.

    To take disallowing live recordings further, I would say that there should be a minimum audio/mockup quality threshold that must be met. As I learned back in my OCR days, a disparity in samples or live performances put things on unequal ground, psychologically and often due to novelty. You can have a composer who has a fantastic piece, but can't afford high-end samples or live musicians, so they essentially get punished for being poor even though they were allowed in.

    So I think it could be worth it to establish, on a competition to competition basis, a baseline that should not be dramatically exceeded or failed to reach

    Second thing, and for me, this is the big one and has held me back from entering before:

    I would like to see the sheet music requirement eliminated.

    I get that a lot of people here use notation, I understand that the judges would probably argue it provides them with a "closer look" or something to that effect at the composition, and it does add a great visual aspect to Mike's video BUT — it is honestly just not relevant to judging a recorded piece of music, yet it is also included in the scoring for or against pieces. It also means potentially more work for both the composer and the judges having to consider the sheet music, the recording, and the piece itself.

    You guys know me, I spent a shameful amount of money on samples over 20 years, I take pride in the mockups, and it's much faster to just compose it all straight in with a MIDI controller. However, there is not a great solution for turning that into detailed, aesthetic sheet music in a timely manner; even going back and Quantizing the MIDI 100%, adjusting things by hand, etc. it was a soul-crushing experience trying to make it presentable in musescore. Much worse if it would've been more than 2 instruments. Working in the reverse way, importing the MIDI from Musescore, creates a lot more work for the mockup.

    Which is why, I will admit, the piece I submitted was merely a piano patch sketch of what I was inspired to come up with for this competition; I'm still not finished the real piece's mockup and orchestration.

    So, where I'm going with this is: I want to give it 100%, but the time investment (even with the generous deadlines) to create 3+ minute piece required away from other music projects that have a larger audience, sometimes paid gigs or creating new store assets, as well as just life in general, is generally not worth it.

    My 2cents anyway. I enjoyed the video and the pieces.

    Edited by AngelCityOutlaw

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