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"From Nothing, to Something" - Satisfaction Survey

PeterthePapercomPoser
in Monthly Competitions

"From Nothing, to Something" - Satisfaction Survey 5 members have voted

  1. 1. How satisfied are you with the "From Nothing, to Something" Competition overall?

    • Extremely Satisfied
      60%
      3
    • Satisfied
      40%
      2
    • Neutral
      0%
      0
    • Dissatisfied
      0%
      0
    • Extremely Dissatisfied
      0%
      0

  2. 2. If you didn't submit music to the competition, why not?

    • I submitted music!
      33%
      2
    • Found out too late/Didn't have enough time/Competition was short notice
      0%
      0
    • Didn't know about the competition
      0%
      0
    • Didn't like the theme/Didn't find the theme inspiring
      16%
      1
    • Don't consider myself a competition composer
      16%
      1
    • Other (please reply to this topic to voice your opinion!)
      33%
      2

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

    • I participated!
      80%
      4
    • Didn't know about the polls
      0%
      0
    • Didn't care/Didn't think it mattered
      20%
      1
    • Too much listening time/effort involved
      0%
      0
    • Other (please reply to this topic to voice your opinion!)
      0%
      0

  4. 4. What would you like to see in future competitions?

    • More time to compose the music
      5%
      1
    • Use some of the other competition themes we didn't get to use this time around
      15%
      3
    • Offer monetary prizes again
      0%
      0
    • Keep the competitions just for fun without monetary awards
      20%
      4
    • Require stricter reviewing from participants
      10%
      2
    • Keep the competitions as casual as possible
      10%
      2
    • Make the competitors and judges anonymous again
      0%
      0
    • Make more awards/badges so more people win
      0%
      0
    • Make fewer awards/badges so there's more competition
      0%
      0
    • The number and theme-ing of the awards/badges was just right for the competition
      20%
      4
    • Offer live performances to the winner(s) given appropriate instrumentation
      20%
      4

Poll closes on 10/09/2026 at 06:59 AM

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Please fill out the survey to help us organize better competitions in the future! The survey is anonymous so we won't be able to see who voted for what. The poll closes on 10/8/2026. Thanks for voicing your opinion!

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    2. If you didn't submit music to the competition, why not?

    I just wanted to review this time

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    this went well I do want to reuse some stuff from earlier and also maybe experiment with more instrumentation. I do have ideas for other themes as well if they are selected resample with the medley thing I do want to compose for a string Orchestra as that the idea I have would work perfect for that. I think these competitions should be somewhat semi casual with a very competitive sort of feeling around it, but also do not include money into the thing but something where people are pumping out actual hard work and where people have to kind of put up a good fight to get like first place and what not

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    As a judge, it was honor to review each of 12 entries of this competition. I enjoy give feedback to this composers. I hope they learn from this experience!

    I feel that (maybe) having at having work in the ensemble category and possibly others and showing how members how you can take draft to full polish piece could be requirement. Again I said maybe..

    For the time requirement: 3-6 mins with a 5 mins would work.

    Ensemble: we can always vote on this.

    Let us add style to the mix! Let challenge them only write in one write style and see what happens.

    So the core requirements: “Write a piece in early romantic style (Chopin, Schuman, Schubert) that is roughly 3-7 mins long given the following forces..”

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    2 minutes ago, Kvothe said:

    As a judge, it was honor to review each of 12 entries of this competition.

    There were 9 entries though🤣😂

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