What Is Your Current Musical Project?

What are you working on at the moment?

What do you still want to compose?

2 hours ago, AngelCityOutlaw said:

What are you working on at the moment?

Am working on an Orchestral Variation on @PeterthePapercomPoser's themes. That's going to be my first orchestral piece and also first variation piece. One third of it has been finished but recently just sort oflosing the motivation a bit.

2 hours ago, AngelCityOutlaw said:

What do you still want to compose?

I wanna write 2 serial piano pieces, and my life time goal would be to write a Choral Symphony using Chinese Poet's Du Fu's poems.

Maybe I feel too tired working on many music these few months. Finishing a Piano Sonata, my dream the String Sextet which I feel so grateful to have finished, a Violin Sonata and a few piano pieces, maybe it's time for me to slow my pace down and absorb more music again.

Henry

2 hours ago, AngelCityOutlaw said:

What are you working on at the moment?

I am also working on a set of variations and mash-ups on themes not written by me (from a famous videogame).  I am using so many themes at once that I am also feeling unmotivated lately to work on it.  It seems like one of those never-ending snowballing out of control projects.  I hope that I'll finish at least one part of it.

2 hours ago, AngelCityOutlaw said:

What do you still want to compose?

I think because of my ginormous orchestral project, the next thing I'll want to write is a piece for 1 monophonic solo instrument accompanied by 1 polyphonic instrument (like the Dreamscapes contest rules).  It would be a nice change of pace.  And if I manage to write something "dreamy" then it will be all the more interesting.

Besides that I was thinking of writing my own variations of more of the themes from the "Bits to Bangers" competition, since I already did the "Harvest Moon" Piano Quintet.  I think I majorly prefer working on previously written video game themes, and if not that, then I prefer for my own music to retain a VGM style or media purpose to it somehow.

been working on a Choral-Orchestral Theme and variations on a two motives

D-F-E-C and G-A-F-E

Way to much stuff that I want to compose in the future though

Nice

Right now, I’m readying my music project workspace in my computer’s hard drive for my eventual migration from Finale to Musescore and Dorico, e.g. creating MusicXML files.

Also, even though burned out, I’m trying very hard to finish my Fantasy Reflections 2nd track for violin and piano.

Lastly, I have rough piano sketches for some pop ballads right now, being enamored by my really guilty J-pop phase these past 12 months.  Although melodies and colorful chords progressions come relatively easily to me for these pop songs, I’m still doing early research and brushing up on drum patterns, lyrics, and pop instrumentation.  Some advice for me is appreciated!

~Frank

On 7/4/2025 at 10:59 PM, Frank Normandy said:

drum patterns, lyrics, and pop instrumentation.  Some advice for me is appreciated!

Pop instrumentation can be quite literally anything, but is most commonly based around a "band" rhythm section. Drumkit, bass guitar, and usually some chordal instrument like a keyboard guitar.

Drums are very simple in most pop tunes. The simple "four on the floor" pattern is in almost every song. Kick drum on beat 1 and 3, snare on 2 and 4.