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Speed composing 3 compositions in less than 24 hours


Bjarke

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Hi @Bjarke!

Clash of Empires - This certainly hits the target mood for a cinematic piece with this title!  It starts out soft and underwhelming, but soon the intensity ramps up with percussion rumbling and low brass hits.  And the greatest thing is that you use the same melody in the quiet introduction and when the intensity is high, effectively making this an example of how to use variation technique for good economy of themes. 

Memoria Fumans - This sounds like a mournful, sorrowful death march (almost)!  I guess this is also appropriate for a piece titled "Smoking Memory".  There is very little nostalgia or love lost being exhibited here though.  The focus seems mostly to be on the loss itself rather than what it might have meant in the past.  This piece is also a great example of how to not start the music on the tonic.  The ending seems to give some hope that an acceptance of loss might be on the horizon.

Fate Knocks - I perceive this piece as being perhaps the weakest of the three presented here.  There is scarcely a recognizable theme and the music is dominated by orchestral hits which make the music almost comic/melodramatic especially in the beginning.  The intensity of the music is so high and the substance so low that it errs on being funny and the opposite of the intended target mood/vibe.  There is nothing sublime or substantive about this which to me makes it sound like just cliched pulp.

Perhaps the only thing that is a disadvantage when writing music so quick and in this type of style is that you give yourself scarce time to reflect on your musical decisions and contemplate the structure of your piece and how it might be extended into a longer composition.  Without such reflection you take the chance that your compositions might end up sounding like cinematic pulp that achieves its target sounds in the most easy, predictable and cliched ways.  Those are just my own personal worries and thoughts.  But on the whole, I really enjoyed the first two of the bunch.  Thanks for sharing!

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