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The competition is now closed to further entries! Starting Sunday June 18th, 2023 and running until Sunday, August 13th , 2023 Young Composers Forum invites you to participate in yet another new and unique music composition competition hosted by @Thatguy v2.0, @PeterthePapercomPoser, @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, @Omicronrg9, and @chopin, all of whom will also judge the competition. Dreams pervade our lives in a myriad of ways. Symbolic dreams, prophetic dreams, anxiety dreams, and lucid dreams are just some among our repertoire of night-time excursions. In this competition, the oneironauts (dream explorers) are tasked with writing a piece (or song) for one monophonic instrument (or voice) and one polyphonic instrument, based around the idea of dreaming, a specific type of dream, a particular dream that the oneironaut wants to share in their music, or depicting a famous dream story or poem such as Edgar Allan Poe's "A Dream Within a Dream". The way in which each oneironaut chooses to do this is totally up to their particular taste and interpretation, the only strict guideline being the instrumentation. The monophonic instruments (or voice) which are allowed include even string instruments which can play multiple notes at once, but do not customarily do so all the time (such as the Violin, Viola, Cello or Contrabass). And possible polyphonic instruments include but are not limited to: Piano, Harp, Guitar, Accordion, Organ, Harpsichord, and etc. Edit: Midi keyboard synthesizers are allowed as long as the part can be performed by a human being. Delay effects are also allowed, although looping pedals are not as they would defeat the purpose of writing for one instrument. The submissions will be judged on a scale of 0 - 10 in the following 8 categories: The scoring categories are pretty self-explanatory. The Taste category is for the judges to score how much they personally enjoyed any given composition, while the other categories are expected to be scored more objectively. The oneironauts names will not be revealed to the judges until the judging is complete. The prizes will consist of $100 1st prize, $50 2nd prize and $25 3rd prize regardless of the number of participants. Also, if there will be any popular voting polls they will not include 1st, 2nd and 3rd place picks as the judges have determined that this portion of the competition may have been a bit redundant in the past. In order to compete: Your composition must not exceed 15 minutes of music and must be at least 3 minutes long If you are a new member, please submit an unrelated original piece of music to the forum to qualify (create a new topic) Your composition must be somehow based on dreams Instrumentation must be for only 1 monophonic instrument (or voice) and only 1 polyphonic instrument No age limit One submission per participant Mp3 submission and score/sheet music pdf required including a description $100 1st prize, $50 2nd prize, $25 3rd prize Deadline: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 Submissions are to be sent to @PeterthePapercomPoser through direct message with the title of the composition as the subject line. He will post the submissions anonymously in a special contest thread for everyone to listen to and consider. Besides attaching a pdf score (without your name in it) and mp3 rendition of your music you must also include a description of your piece for the judges, fellow competitors and young composers at large to better understand your music. How did you incorporate the idea of dreaming into your music? Feel free to include the description of the dream, dream story or dream poem that you used. To view the submissions thread go here: To view the results and winners thread go here: To take the "Dreamscapes" Satisfaction Survey go here: To vote in the popular voting polls go here: Current Entrants: (reply to this thread in order to enter) @expert21 @Bacon Danger @ComposaBoi @Left Unexplained @IanBoins @veps @Samuel1 @AlexeySavelyev @PCC @GreenGiantCanOfCorn @Michalis @44W74l4 @SorooshMHS @jojojo @popsinn @Beethoven is God @Jordan Jinosko @Camfrtt @AngelCityOutlaw @MusicianXX12 @bkho @ComposedBySam @Samuel_vangogh @NicholasG @Minerscale @José de Azevedo Souza @Composer from Europe @spike473 @Paweł Siek @Sergio Moreno @Irene Huang @MTK

It's suspenseful, but there's a lot of bass here and bass = heavy, gravity, on the ground, battleship music, etc. I think if you are going for an air battle, maybe use instruments that are capable of making faster movements. Or instruments that reflect lightweight, airy, in the sky. Examples of this would be your piccolos, high woodwinds, maybe bells, piano, harp. You can still use bass of course but if you were to use bass in moderation, and those other instruments as your main focus for this air battle, it may help portray your mood a little better. Think about the types of instruments used in Windwaker to portray "sailing the seas". I would think this would be a similar concept. So the music itself is good, but for the mood you want to portray, I would try changing up the instruments, and use a somewhat faster paced tempo. Flutes can flutter, oboes can trill harps can be arpeggiated...all very "air like".

That's one epic boss fight. I like how you have an intro, after the intro. It's a very organized suite of music. Speaking of your intro in Phase 1, this actually reminds me of the beginning section of Tchaikovksy's symphony 4 (after his horn intro), which is one of his strongest symphonies in my opinion. You nailed it there. Overall I like the chord progressions and beat you use for the piece, and you make me proud of your usage of acciaccaturas (I think they are acciaccaturas, I don't have the sheet music). Either way, great way to use ornaments in your music, and its a fun melody for a boss fight. As far as the recording itself, perhaps a bit more wet reverb would help. The recording sounds a bit dry. But that may just be my personal preference.