Gaia - Antartica

Hi to all,

"Gaia" is a project promoted by composers in Spain just to make aware the people of the global warming of the planet and its effects.

Antartica is the second of my submissions and I

this is very good, although i dont think it really makes me think of icekles, its to 'warm'. I dont get the harsh sense of coldness. Its all to low down i suggest. You rarley use your wind to good affect which i think would be more realistic of what your trying to do. Harmonically i think its rather boring apart from some areas. Its quiet bog standard chords structure throughout, i cant comment to much as i havent gone through the score that much but i think you have talent to do alot more with the harmonies. Also your structure is 'fluid' which im guessing is what your was trying to suppose. What i dont get is the now and the cymbal crashes. Im like that was not the climax!!!! because ive been listening to this build up in the low strings for minutes and all i get is maybe a bar or two with a symbal crash for realease. I really think you dont do it justice. Your obviously good with the build up but you need to spend more time on working on something memorable, that makes me sing it after or hum it. it doesnt have to be like a big melody, but i cant help but think ive listened to just section A after A after A, its preety much all the same music. Sorry for the bad critique i just think what youve shown here isnt a lack of compositional skills more to do with direction, emotion, iventivness, and think you should continue to work on this piece you probabaly think is done, but i dont think it is.

Hi Violinboy

I appreciate a lot your criticism, in fact I guess that you are young because your words are very similar to the criticism of my 19 yo son (He is also studing composition and is better than me, of course, but his style is not classical.

The climax is not really cold all the time (Just in the beggining, the vibes and glock, try to represent transparent ice crystals) but they are warming along the piece as the real Antartica, just it was my appreciation.

I tried to depict an space of one only element: Liquid and solid water, just transforming one into each other, and just two colours white and blue. The bigger d

After the appreciated criticism of "violinboy" I have made a few corrections in the harmony and the dynamics and some minor into mayor chords.

Piano reduction

At least now my son like it more, Please let me know what you think now

Thanks for the listen

Luis