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A piece I wrote one day during the summer holidays. https://youtu.be/IPhrPxi4l8Q

Just a quick question: What do you think about this as a piece for a child TV Show? Kinderlied Intro V1.mp3

I see Monarcheon's point about the 'downtime'.. I don't hear a lot in the drums.. Hear the splash (somewhat over-used, and a snare).. Some complex drumming would fill this piece out quite nicely, and will fill in for the downtime.. In fact, I think it would make it very interesting. When you have a three piece band, Each member has to be outstanding at their instrument, when to play, when to lay out, how full/sparse.. It's a constant juggling act. You let the focus of activity move around between the three players, and you've really got something. The guitar is great.. Bass strong too. Just stronger, in your face drums, with kick, toms, hat, snare. The splash is a bit overwhelming. Very nice composition..

The main character is struggling to decide whether or not to decide to start working at a speakeasy in her time of need. It's basically a dialogue between her and the person trying to convince her to.

After several months of off-and-on work, I finally completed my sonata for clarinet and piano. I have been extraordinarily busy at work, and so my revision process has been unusually long, though it is done now. I posted the first movement (in a less refined form) a while ago, and I received some great feedback on it. I am hoping to get it performed in the spring, and I am excited to hear what you guys think. Happy New Year!

Hi everyone, Here's a short piece for piano trio I wrote over the summer. Let me know what you think and things I should keep in mind for future pieces. A clearer PDF score is attached below. Thanks! J Shu

I just finished up my Christmas composition project. Here's a two minute piece on the topic of "you need to define a thing to be able to think about a thing, so that you have a word to attach your thoughts to." Apparently blue is the last color to gain a word in any language. There are still languages that haven't evolved a word for the concept of "blueness" yet. One theory is that color words appear as we need to be able to distinguish between things that we want to buy, sell, or trade: "Yeah, I can make you a new deer skinning knife. What color do you want the handle to be?" "Blue." Because blue paints and dyes are relatively difficult to produce, compared with other colors, cultures don't develop a word for "blue" until they are pretty advanced. The cultures that don't have a word for it, interestingly have a hard time seeing and thinking about it as well. Scientists have done experiments where they have say, three green squares and one blue one, and ask these language users to pick out the square that is not like the others, and people have a very difficult time with the task. It seems that our brains need a word to attach a concept to in order to think about the concept. We need to think using our interior monologue. Actual language has to be running inside or outside of our heads in order for us to think in any meaningful way. It's an explanation for why you can't do basic math and listen to someone having a conversation involving numbers at the same time. So get out there and learn the names of things, any kinds of things, and your basic thought processes will deepen. I'd suggest that you open the score while you listen so you can see how the text fits the notes, or click the youtube link below. It has the score scrolling along behind the music. And I used a harp sound instead of piano, because all the piano sound fonts that come with my composition software are pretty clunky, but I do intend this to be piano accompaniment. Thanks for listening and I'd love to hear any thoughts about this piece! Furtak-Semantic.mid

This is some incredible background music you've made! Great job!