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Nop, I really enjoyed your music, I hope to hear more.

An app that can write my songs for me? A composer's dream! Now I don't have to do anything and can focus on more important things in life.

Ahhh ok.. Yeah that would be cool.. There's such a diverse range of options when it comes to composing and melody writing and I haven't even scratched the surface yet. Exciting time for me as a composer (having the opportunity to expand my arsenal), terrifying time as a human on planet earth (other arsenals being put on high alert). I'll ask you more about this later! Thanks

Fancy words for counterpoint - two melodies at the same time. Polyphony is a term used in contrast to monophony which is just one melody at a time without any accompaniment, homophony which is when a melody is matched with an accompaniment that is secondary to it, heterophony which is when variations of the melody are all played at once, and polyphony which is when multiple equally important melodies are played at once. And canonic imitation is when melodies imitate one another as if in a canon or a fugue (although usually not as strictly).

what is polyphony and canonic imitation? Also thank you sm, glad to see you're a moderator now, couldn't think of a better person for the opening.

Very affecting music with lots of beautiful moments. I love how you end up alternating between chords that are distant from the tonic making the music sound like it's totally ventured into foreign harmonic territory. I think someone on the discord server said something about varying the textures a bit and I agree that towards the end I felt like maybe introducing some polyphony or canonic imitation in the inner voices or just more movement would have benefited this piece. On the whole though the simplicity really works especially in the beginning. Great job and thanks for sharing!

I enjoyed listening to this "unnerving" work ... it felt very real.

Sounds like a very good start to a flute sonata. Very Baroque in nature, I'm reminded of Bach when I hear it.

I'm not signed up for Spotify, so I can't listen to your whole album except for short samples of each track. "The Harvest" is quite a creepy waltz! I envision a carnival which, I noticed that one of your other tracks is titled "Carnival Waltz". But that track is a piano piece and doesn't bring the carnival to mind as vividly as this track imo. I love the touch of microtonality at the end! It sounds really cool and fitting to the possible programmatic context (in that it makes it sound like a broken hurdy-gurdy). Really great job and thanks for sharing!

Wow! This piece is really cool! I have sensory problems too. Just walking down a city street can be painful and so this piece really speaks to me. I agree with Tom, original music from a unique voice has more value than using old musical languages such as those of Mozart and his contemporaries. I wish I could play something new and original. I really enjoyed this piece, its eerie and irrational but held together by the undulating bass until the end trips up even the calming bass line.

I really like this because it is so personal. There's a lot you can point to that wouldn't get you a good grade in a composition class but I don't care. I would rather listen to a piece that's "wrong" and comes from deep inside than another predictable imitation of Mozart any day.

I agree with Peter; feels like it's in 3/4. I like the harmonic shifts in bars 12 - 20.

The ambiance of this piece is quite dreary. I imagine a boy walking alone over a frozen lake and in the end plunging into a crack in the ice (the ending chord). I guess I let your suggestive title feed my imagination. The 7/8 time and clusters in the bass are quite effective at conveying that mood. I thought you could have fashioned a bigger crescendo to lead up to a louder final chord. That's my only criticism though. Thanks for sharing!