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I disagree... there's often some musical mediums that simply aren't conducive to a written score. Many electronic forms, improvised musics... "Music is a combination of sound and literature (notes)" ... again, I disagree... "literature" is simply a notation of the music, a written visual representation used to allow other people to perform it. Do you bring a score when you go to the symphony? Do you ask for the script when you go see Shakespeare? Do you demand to see the blueprints when admiring some interesting architecture? :huh: Some folks don't want to post their scores; some don't have an effective means of creating a score; some write music which has no score. Perhaps their reviews will be less detailed, but that's nobody's concern but their own. Get over it.

All I mean is, you've made your position clear...it's time to let it go. It is a forum where people can discuss the work of others...something easily accomplished regardless of having a score or not. Wholly inaccurate, as I tried to point out. I expect a vast majority of electronic and incidental musics are created sans score. Just because something is created and developed using a method that's not conducive to a written format doesn't negate it's value as music or as a "composition". No....Notating music is writing it down so other people can perform it. Composing is another thing altogether. The point is, there's a reason we haven't adopted obligatory score requirement. It's simply not a reasonable request. I apologize if I come off as rude or impolite. There was no bullying implied, I was simply trying to explain how/why requiring a score on this site isn't a good idea. Also, I don't understand how I'm being unobjective in this matter... to remain objective shouldn't one be open to all music on this site, whether a score is included or not?

The thing you can do with really any sonority created by a harmony or, in this case the octatonic scale, is create a tonality for it. Just like in tonal music you have "scale degrees" where you know some notes will relate to other notes, you can do the same thing with the Octatonic Scale without relying on "functionality." If you find a particular harmony evocative of the Octatonic's first pitch, use that harmony as a referential point. Then, from a contrapuntal perspective, you can build scales off of different scale degrees to evoke different harmonic areas that then relate to the referential point and move around it. You can create expectations and delay them for greater effect, for example. The interesting thing about the Octatonic scale is that it's symmetric, something that's not common among all scales. If you wanted to, say, avoid diatonicism (which is perfectly understandable with this work), there are other symmetric scales that would blend well here. In fact, your entire work could be based not on simply the Octatonic Scale but also the Whole Tone scale and fully Diminished Arpeggios that would complement the symmetry of the pitch relationships. Then you have more ways to create variety within the harmonic structure of your sonority and give you more options to work with in composing this work or the next. Additionally, you can create your own synthetic scale with the idea of symmetry in mind and use that to further develop the sonority. You might as well just write another piece with these things in mind, because other than the end, I think what you have is interesting enough for me. --------------------------- For fun I just orchestrated a Whole Tone scale in a harmonic stack moving to an Octatonic scale orchestrated in a harmonic stack. The progression is better than sex! :)

:facepalm: Lol :lol: What are "bells and whistles" ideas and what are "user friendly and fun" ideas? I proposed putting the player in the forum so we didn't have to screen hop to listen to works. Is this a "bells and whistles" idea to you or a "user friendly and fun" idea?? Just curious, of course. - AA :)

I liked this piece a lot, as well. There were some really nice accented moments that kept my attention and I could really follow the piece more as a result. You have a few collisions in the score that you'll probably need to edit, I saw these on page 2 of the score. Also, I hope you'll reconsider the octaves at the very end. I didn't like that. That's all I really have in the way of comments, though. Good job. - AA :)

+1 to Marius and Bitterduck. I'd like the option to host independently to be available. I'll also add that the music network (at least when on the page of a piece) is incredibly laggy for me.