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I watched a video talking about becoming immune to dissonance, and it's something I can easily identified with. Here there are only two chords / scales: Cmaj and Dbmaj. But always superimposed. When Db is under C, intervals are natural 7 and the sound is softer. When C is under Db, it's heavier because the b9 intervals. But nothing sounds bad to me. Also, there is a part where everything is "inverted". INMUNE - SCORE.pdf

Hi peeps, Recently started composing again. Forgot that I even had an account on here from nearly 10 years ago, I feel old. Been trying to put together a sound for a film I'm working on at the moment. It's set mainly in the Australian bush, so I'm trying to go for a very raw, exposed sound. I've put up just one example. I've listened to it so much lately, it would be nice to get some second opinions. Please be as harsh as you like. Still trying to find "my sound"... Thanks!

Interesting idea with your opening but the beat ends up sounding so disjunct with the melodic fragment the whole thing just kind of sounds off to me; keeping it more steady would have maybe kept the whole thing sounding more cohesive. The atmosphere of the main part of the piece is nice with the subtle chords and relatively obfuscated riff (in a good way)! The end section was fantastic with some really great chords. I think I would just say in the fast section to have it varied the second time through in some way. Maybe adding some more diminished or augmented chord, reverse bell tones or anything else to have the audience not fall victim to the "double repetition", which is more dangerous than singular repetition.

This EP is an example of theoretical improvisation in the 12 keys off of a simple melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic idea. The key of C is played twice. Here's a link to the EP:

I wrote this as a trial piece for Two Dances for Orchestra was written for the local Youth Symphony (can be heard here: http://www.youngcomposers.com/t34330/two-dances-for-orchestra/#comment-1186669895) It's SO very different and it's an objectively bad piece but there a lot of good things about it regardless (still ©'d it though!). It follows a young woman as she's drawn further and further away from the path by snow. You'll also have to forgive the playback. Finale and aleatoricsm don't play nice.

So I wrote this piece at the beginning of last year and, while it's not really my style anymore, I still think it's quite nice so I thought I'd share it. :) I was fortunate enough to get a performance of it from the Kokoro Ensemble; I do have a recording of the performance but unfortunately, I'm not allowed/don't have the rights to share it on social media and forums. However, I do have a recording of the piece when it was being workshopped (see the mp3 below).

A circular piece.

Howdy y'all! (Seemed an appropriate salutation given the title.... ahem.) Audacity is a free sound editing platform. It's VERY basic, just allowing for pitch change/time change, cutting/pasting, basic effects (reverb, delay, distortion, etc.), and generating static sin/saw/square tones and the like. I can't input pitches of a given sound as with most DAW's. I found a tool that allows me to input numbers and it returns the corresponding dial "beep" a-la telephone. I generated some saw tones and worked them into a bassline, then put some electric guitar on top - using only my built in microphone (don't own an external mic). The introduction is a tone I pitch shifted up with reverb I pitch shifted back down. I'm enjoying doing this kind of thing, it allows for a lot of freedom. Let me know thoughts about any part of it! Thanks, Gustav Johnson