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I'd like some feedback on this minuet & trio I composed for piano. It's my first finished piece for piano (I don't play it), so I'm not sure if it's all playable and stuff. I tried to do this thing where the first theme is in A lydian and the second theme is in E mixolydian, so as to "swap key signatures", but I feel like I never really leave A. I appreciate any feedback 🙂

I wrote this one in January 13, 2014 and edited a bit just now. I was just having fun with melodies that time and I thought maybe develop this one into a short but fun piece. Plus, this was my first attempt on this style of writing 😄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJOmQn3zXzI This is one of my most recent works for violin and piano. Every now and then I enjoy putting myself into the world of (neo)classical forms and I try to compose something fresh within this quite strict approach. I hope you will find this composition interesting and I encourage you to write some reviews. Thank you!

Hi guys, just finished my new piece Rhapsody for Piano & Orchestra. Rhapsodic in form but really each new melody is a variation on the first. Hope you enjoy. Many thanks!

This guy's great. He sounds like a discount politician. I'm really excited that he has recognized my inherent talent and POTENTIAL to help him out! I mean, this guy's nothing short of a goddamn visionary! He also knows we are GREAT! And above all else? He's appreciative too! Man, what more could you possibly want!!??

Like a decade or so ago I ended up coming to the realization that originality is so relative that it's really a pointless discussion. It's relative to the amount of knowledge you have of what already happened. On the other hand, the "spirit" of originality is a cool thing, which is to take the stance that as long as it's original to YOU, then it counts and it's worth looking into. Eventually as you get older and become knowledgeable, it's hard to perceive things as really original in the sense of "Nobody's done this before!" Rather, you end up putting a lot more value on what each person can bring from their own creativity. Ultimately, I think that's the best way to describe my stance on it. I see everyone's musical input as original seeing as there's only one of each person with a unique perspective. Does it render the word kind of meaningless? Yes, but I did say that I thought it was a pointless discussion at the start didn't I? Another thing of course is the fact that our brains work basically in the same manner, generally speaking, hence there is a very large degree of similarity in the way people tackle musical things and that of course cuts down on the "originality" business quite a whole lot. You end up only with cultural deviance or outliers if you're looking for something different enough to count as "original". It's sobering to realize that the hypothalamus(and friends) is responsible for a vast majority of musical structure (among other things) across basically all cultures, but stuff like that brings into perspective that a novel interpretation of "originality" is really a fickle thing. Also: I wrote that in 2009, basically as I was exhausted with philosophizing this very kind of thing. I figured, a performance held IN YOUR MIND, is going to be infinitely unique to each and every person. Kind of taking the idea of "originality" and running it right into the ground at full speed.

Szép munka, Oliver! I wish I knew more about electronic music to give you a better review, but I was very impressed with your work here! It legitimately sounded like the soundtrack for a zombie video game or film. Your soundscape was quite convincing as a post-apocalypic world and the musicality was gripping—and very tastefully done. I hope someone discovers you as a filmscore writer someday...

This was written in November 19, 2012. I was quite prolific and experimental in writing music during 2012-2014, and while I was just playing around with melodies along the higher register, I decided to write this one out. While this one's a very short piece, it was among the very few ones that were actually completed, so I wanna share it to the forum. Hope you like it 🙂