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A very interesting meditation which manages to keep the listener interested by varying intensity (dynamics, pulse), sprinkles of polyphony and melodic passages. The solo violin conveys the feeling of a lonely persons at midnight, combatting conflicting feelings but also its own sleepiness, well. However, the piece should not be any longer (it's alright as it is).

I can't really tell what parts are empty. Just... you know... the silent/almost-silent parts.

A short Horn Quartet inspired by hunting music with a mixture of Waltz light music. Any criticism and opinions are welcomed

Sorry, that came out wrong. It's easy to mistakenly expect the electronics to have a more upfront role when "piano and electronics" is in the title. I think it calls for decent speakers, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It means you're not compromising your art.

I wish I had a violin. Unfortunately I don't have one so I can't teach myself how to play it. It sounds interesting, I'd give it 9/10 because it sounds great but some parts are... to empty for me. I guess it's part of the piece's feeling, the room might feel very empty at night (guess that's also the reason it's only one violin), but for me it was a problem. And yet, 9/10 is a super high score! Except for that one little thing I think it's perfect and I even listened to it three times. Yes, I'd like to see the score if possible.

Okay so here's my first kind of 'major' piece I've written for my degree. It'll be performed by a professional ensemble in May, and I'm sending off the score this week. The brief was to write a piece of maximum length 12 minutes, for an ensemble of maximum size flute/clarinet/perc/2 violins/viola/cello/bass. After a bit of agonizing over what on earth I would do, I did what usually works for me and just sat down and put some notes out to see what happened, and then went from there. The piece is kind of loosely following around a character as he explores a world. I haven't put too much more thought into the precise story than that, except that the first movement is introducing the character, and the second and third are two little adventures of his, with the third ending in his triumphant return. I kept a fairly light tone throughout, which seems to be a common thread for all my compositions. Some of my tutor's suggestions that I put in were expanding the first movement slightly, experimenting with string harmonics, and just some general score tidying. He liked the ending and I do too - his comment was that it sounded like something a composer might have written a hundred or so years ago, but in a good way. The piece is fairly tonal, almost to a fault at times, so mostly my concerns were with trying to keep it as fresh and interesting as I could, in my own ways. Mainly, that involves trying to vary up my chord progressions and harmonies. I had particular fun towards the end of the second movement where I literally was just putting in whatever I felt like in the strings. The title has no significance whatsoever, except that I wanted it to evoke something childlike and innocent. I originally had 'Tinky-Winky' instead of 'Timmy' but my tutor thought that was going too far, and it would seem like I was going for a jokey piece, which was not quite my intention. Recording is a slightly dodgy/quirky/stuttery Sibelius output but it's mostly okay.

Hi, I like the "dirty sounds" that you use here. I think it's a good rendition to that reminiscence of the moonlight sonata. Most important is the atmosphere you create. It's dark, ¿scary?, romantic?... I like it.

This piece is called "The People of the Elder Ice." As you listen, picture an Inuit village, alone at the edge of the world, surrounded on all sides by a frozen waste. Survival is a daily struggle, food is often scarce, and the fickle arctic gods constantly toy with the villagers... yet somehow the people thrive. (I've posted this music before, but now you can watch the music as you listen).