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I'm sorry, but as this is not a competition, but a Challenge, there are no obligation for judgements and winners. I asked Morivou about this on the main topic about Challanges. There, he said that I can decide it by myself. I didn't really want to name winners and have scoring, rankings and so... I'm pretty glad with the good results, and YC's komposers said it themselves. As the creator of this first challenge, I've given myself the only "obligation" of commenting on every miniature posted for this challenge. In the instructions, I didn't even mentioned judges, winners and so... As the principal aim of the challenge is the instigation to create within a specific "rule", grow as a komposer and share this experience with people. Sincerely talking, I don't like judgements very much, as I believe that any kind of art has it's own characteristic, defined by it's komposer (or painter, dancer, actor, player...), so we cannot have precise criteria to tell what's better than what!!!! That will depend solely on judges "likes and dislikes", about their studies and personal life. With different judges, any result could be the oposite!!!! So, as far as I can host a challenge here, I'm not planning to do it as a competition, but as an experience to (as the title says) challenge each one, so that each komposer can know better about his/her skills, eases and difficulties.

Hello composers! First of all, sorry for my bad English :) I am a Hungarian young composer, and contemporary music performer (cello/piano). I made several competitions for you, to write a pieces for me/us, and I/we perform the winner piece. Now it's not a competition, it's a continous connection between you and us, so that's why I made the topic here. I hope you will like my idea. So here it is: There is an ensemble called Cluster Music Factory. Actually, it's not a real ensemble, because we don't play all together on concerts, but we work on many pieces in different parts, and if something gets ready, we perform it - that is the reason of our name. :) We played Philip Glass' String Quartet, Steve Reich's Different Trains, some works from some of you, Ornstein's Cello Sonata, John Adams' Hallelujah Junction, Ligeti, Penderecki, Lutosławski, etc... We are not professional musicians but we try to make our things in a very high level, and we are interested only in XX. century and contemporary music. I am the main organizer of this thing, and I am the music director too, as I have the most experience in contemporary art. We started to make a Concert Series of Contemporary Music this year. Till 2013 summer, I would like to make 4-6 concerts. On each concert, we would like to play 3-4 shorter, or 1-2 longer chamber pieces from amateur young composers. Of course, we don't have time to perform everything, so for the first time everybody can suggest max. 2 pieces, choose wisely! Very important: we would like to make concerts with solo, or smaller chamber pieces, so the maximum number of performers is 5! The duration of the piece can be max. 20 minutes. (We have to give time for other pieces too :). And now, the available instruments: Soprano voice (0-1x), flute (3x), clarinet (0-1x), violin (3x), viola (0-2x), violoncello (2x), piano (2x), trumpet (0-1x), horn (0-1x). We have other instruments too, but they are so busy nowadays. Maybe in a few month, they can do things too, I will wrote about that later. Where I wrote 0, it's a bit harder to organize, beause of their timetable. So the main instruments are flute(s), violin(s), violoncello(s), piano(s). Mainly I play the cello and the piano pieces, but my piano knowledge is limited. Please check my youtube profile, I play piano there, if your piece is not much harder than those, I can perform it easily: http://www.youtube.com/user/Gollam12?feature=mhee . Of course with enough practice, everything is possible :) The style is free, we can accept tonal, and atonal works too. But if you ask me, I vote for atonal works :) And one last, but very important thing: we really like to make world premiers :) So unperformed pieces have advantage. If we dicide, that on the next concert, we perform your piece, we start to discuss things with you. Of course we are in Hungary and it's not possible for us to go to an other country, so we make it online. I will always try to manage the video recording of the concert, it has around 95% chance. But if I'm not successful, we can make a normal recording too, but not in a studio, that's very expensive here in Hungary... So, if you're interested, please write a comment here with your ideas and pieces. If you have something to send, please send it to my e-mail address: gollam12@gmail.com So that's all! Go for it! :) For those, who wrote entries for my solo cello / cello+electronics competition: I didn't forget your works :) For those, who I said, that their piece will be performed by we, will be. In December/January, I will make a contemporary solo cello or cello+piano concert, I will write a mail about it in around November. Take care! Marcell Magyari Cluster Music Factory

You know what I wish notation softwares had? Maybe this has nothing to do with what you're asking (and I'm pretty positive it doesn't, but you should consider this with touchscreen apps if you ever decide to get into that): Make a program where I can DRAW on the staff, the computer would be able to identify "what" I am drawing, and convert it to the proper digital shape and engraving. How cool would that be?

:) That's the right attitude CP. Challenges are not about winning. They are about challenging the self. But, you did confuse people. Why set a deadline if there is no reason to set one. ;)