2025 Christmas Music Event!

🎄🌲🎄🌲---=== It's time for our annual Christmas Music Event!!! ===--- 🎄🌲🎄🌲

It's that season of the year again and time to write music in your adored wintry (or summery for those in the southern hemisphere), Christmas-y, Hanukkah-y, or Kwanzaa-y style!  The only rule is that this is not a competition!!!  So please review the pieces casually, only using the competition reviewing template on those who have expressed a desire/interest in having their music reviewed in this way!  🎅

In this event - anything goes!  Submit music in the spirit of the holiday season of any duration or instrumentation!  There will be badges given out for all the participants, of course!  We will also give out "Ardent Reviewer" badges for those who take it upon themselves to review all the participants' music!  You do not have to review any AI-generated works in order to receive the "Ardent Reviewer" badge.

This thread will double as the submissions thread as well as the event announcement.  Please post only links to your music posted elsewhere in the forum (so that it may be properly reviewed in its own dedicated topic).  The following members have thus far expressed interest in participating:

@PeterthePapercomPoser

@Monarcheon

@TristanTheTristan

@AngelCityOutlaw

@PCC

@Crescent Roulade

@Mooravioli

@Wieland Handke

@gaspard

@therealAJGS

@Vavrinec

@Vonias

@HoYin Cheung

@Musicman_3254

@raymond doerr

@Tunndy

The event opens on Black Friday, right after Thanksgiving!  And closes on December 31st!

Excited to see what we all come up with this year!  

It is now 2026 and the Christmas Music Event is closed to further submissions!  Check out the conclusion of the event here:

I'm game. Vamos a ver que podemos hacer.

Here is my first submission!

Here.

I'll give it a shot

not sure if I can meet the deadline, I guess I might be able to share a part of a multisection comp

yeah :D

hello peter,

I am interested in joining as well

On 11/29/2025 at 9:21 AM, TristanTheTristan said:

Here.

 

On 11/30/2025 at 12:47 PM, PCC said:

not sure if I can meet the deadline, I guess I might be able to share a part of a multisection comp

 

On 11/23/2025 at 9:40 PM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

🎄🌲🎄🌲---=== It's time for our annual Christmas Music Event!!! ===--- 🎄🌲🎄🌲

It's that season of the year again and time to write music in your adored wintry (or summery for those in the southern hemisphere), Christmas-y, Hanukkah-y, or Kwanzaa-y style!  The only rule is that this is not a competition!!!  So please review the pieces casually, only using the competition reviewing template on those who have expressed a desire/interest in having their music reviewed in this way!  🎅

In this event - anything goes!  Submit music in the spirit of the holiday season of any duration or instrumentation!  There will be badges given out for all the participants, of course!  We will also give out "Ardent Reviewer" badges for those who take it upon themselves to review all the participants' music!  This thread will double as the submissions thread as well as the event announcement.  Please post only links to your music posted elsewhere in the forum (so that it may be properly reviewed in its own dedicated topic).  The following members have thus far expressed interest in participating:

@PeterthePapercomPoser

@Monarcheon

@TristanTheTristan

@AngelCityOutlaw

@PCC

@Crescent Roulade

The event opens on Black Friday, right after Thanksgiving!  And closes on December 31st!

Excited to see what we all come up with this year!  

 

I also might not be able to complete it by the deadlines... Guess I will do the same as you.

I would enjoy to participate in this event, too. I hope that I can accomplish my contribution within the next two weeks.

Looking forward for listening and reviewing the contributions of other participants

i’m hoping to participate, itll be a long shot finishing everything up and recording it in time but yeah

ill join.

I am in 🙂

Because of controversy surrounding the following piece being generated with the help of artificial intelligence it was at first disqualified from the event.  But the staff have since changed their mind and will allow @Vonias to participate:

1 hour ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Because of controversy surrounding the following piece being generated with the help of artificial intelligence it was at first disqualified from the event.  But the staff have since changed their mind and will allow @Vonias to participate:

 

 

I'm withdrawing my participation.

Competition or not, if you're putting on essentially a display of music created by members and also giving out site badges for them, then I feel that music should actually be created and produced by the members of the forum. I want my music alongside other human-created works.

@AngelCityOutlaw, this is a just for fun event which is why we are ok with the submission. Also, Vonias is being very clear about his submission being AI generated or assisted. We'd love for you to be a part of this event, but of course its up to you. You can change your mind any time, we just want to keep things festive and fun on YC!

7 minutes ago, chopin said:

@AngelCityOutlaw, this is a just for fun event which is why we are ok with the submission. Also, Vonias is being very clear about his submission being AI generated or assisted. We'd love for you to be a part of this event, but of course its up to you. You can change your mind any time, we just want to keep things festive and fun on YC!

I'm sorry Mike, but you guys folded like a cheap suit in a matter of minutes. You give these AI bros an inch and they'll take 3 miles. What is to say you won't fold the same when it's not "just for fun?" Aren't all of these "just for fun" in some way? And people will bring up that "Well you accepted AI that time!" 

Is this a place for composers, or a place for grifters passing off AI music?

Merry christmas

4 hours ago, AngelCityOutlaw said:

I'm sorry Mike, but you guys folded like a cheap suit in a matter of minutes. You give these AI bros an inch and they'll take 3 miles. What is to say you won't fold the same when it's not "just for fun?" Aren't all of these "just for fun" in some way? And people will bring up that "Well you accepted AI that time!" 

Is this a place for composers, or a place for grifters passing off AI music?

 

Also something else I need to say about this:

So I, and others, can put in hours of work writing the music, orchestration, making detailed mockups, etc. but a guy who writes a Suno prompt and has a "piece" in 5 minutes is treated as equally-valid in this event? It isn't actually even his music. Where is the "fun" in that, exactly? Why even bother?

You guys say you want more people to do reviews. What your reviews are going to become if this kind of thing is permitted is a bunch of people being like "Nice prompt bro, but I would've said 'romantic soaring strings' instead of 'cinematic'". 

Ok, thank you for your feedback.

I may write a short piece for Xmas too

Please count me in too!

Unfortunately, I was not able to join this round.  The holiday season is busy for me: traveling to see family.  However, what I can do, is review member compositions that are not related to the competition. 

That way, my reviewing activity help in other means. I want to 1:1 ratio for me. I hope others will follow my example. 🙂 

My 2nd submission to the event!

Here's my submission: 

Here is @Musicman_3254's submission: