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Greetings YC Family! It's been a long time since I made a post and visited the forum. For those of you who may recognize me, you know that I was once an administrator on this site. My years on here have aided me in my ventures within the past decade. One of these ventures was the setup and creation of an online radio station devoted solely to promoting the works of new and emerging composers. This post, thus, serves two purposes: 1. To promote Et Lux Radio and encourage each and everyone of you to listen to the music of your peers as it is broadcast 24/7. and... 2. Make a formal call for live, or rendered, recordings of your works along with a signed affidavit giving Et Lux Radio permission to include the works within its broadcast. Submitted recordings need to be downloadable and in .mp3 format. They can be for any instrumentation and must be under 25 mins in length. Please include in your submission a brief biography and any related program notes for your works. Submissions can be emailed to jaowoodr@gmail.com! Thanks and I look forward to hearing your works!

Years ago (almost a decade), many of us older members came together to save a dying YC forum. I stepped into an administrator role and aided in saving this forum -and I must say, its nice to see the community up and going strong again. In the years since I stepped away from YC, I've begun to develop my own business skills (I own a cleaning company and have just launched my second business -an online radio station dedicated to the promotion of new music). I have several articles still in the wiki and all my old posts are in the archives (which is nice to read back on). I would be very interested in assisting with the magazine and might even follow suit to create a magazine for my new radio station. Just let me know what you need and I will do my best to meet it!

All in all, I think you got some good ideas. The rhythm is very simple -and at times the vocal line seems to be locked into it (which has a tendency to mess up the natural rhythmic flow of the text). I think a little more coloration harmonically could benefit this. Perhaps venture out from traditional harmonies a tad -I get the sense that you really try to adhere to the rules -and this tends to put you in a box of fully exploring the material you have. One avenue you might consider, since you appear to also love ancient texts, is maybe researching ancient music. A lot of these ancient texts come from cultures that had very different ideas of harmony and counterpoint then we do today. Understanding this might be enough to really make this text pop. Who knows?

That a great improvement I like it, still think it needs some vocals, but this was worth the work, you've done a great job.

I could also write about some of our history, which could be quite interesting. We'd need to get a few of our old guard members on board to help though.