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I can only speak for the UK: there's far too much nannying - it's a growth industry. Broadcasts, through vox pop, have shown students not knowing how to boil an egg, others who can't work out how to open corned beef can with the attached key, and very few who could fit a 3-pin electrical plug. To me, AI fits in this category. It's purveyors, no doubt cheer-led by the WEF want to attenuate people's ability to think so that they become just puppets. So - for composing it has no future for me. Incidentally, did anyone see the broadcast clip of the robotic conductor..........? To me, utter rubbish. Only naive geeks would get excited. It misses the whole point of the conductor's job: to prepare the orchestra and in concert be just the figurehead and deal with anything going wrong. Imagine this machine doing an opera like Lulu when something goes wrong! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGeRlwxpDYs

Hi @expert21! I like all the chromaticism and well chosen harmonic motion! Very nice voice-leading. I think you did a good job picking an interesting bass line and harmony for the melody! And kudos for getting @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu to perform this! There is so much harmonic detail to this - I think it's your best piece that you've written thus far. And it's a stylistically appropriate example of what a Siciliana is supposed to be. The middle section in the dominant key works well too. Great job and thanks for sharing!

First post in a looooooong time. Some background on the piece is in video description. All constructive feedback is welcome. Nga Mihi, Arjuna P.S. I'd like to thank our very own @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu for the recording.

Thank you for pointing that out, it will be corrected right away. You're right actually, I did overlay the original MuseSounds choir rendition over the main Cantāmus rendering in order to further enrich the sound and add a semblance of a reverb effect. I'm still not entirely sure just how noticeable this might be to the ears, but overall it was very much intentional and I'm pleased with how it turned out.

I've marked most problematic parts (see the attachment)

Hmmm....'No comment' is what I usually have to say to the police..... No, seriously, I submit music here and occasionally (rarely) on another site. I have no wish to publish scores unless one was accepted by the BBC of which there's less chance than me swimming the Pacific Ocean it seems. I sometimes get 5 minutes or so for canned music to be played at a local appreciation group or live - quite rare now - at local concerts. Last one was before the pandemic. For that it has to be simple and fall into the 'light music' category.

It's easy---just pay me $100000000000000 and that's it! Speaking of the piece Arjuna, we had already talked some of the details on it. I definitely see your progress and just keep going! I like playing it. Henry

Hi again @Fugax Contrapunctus! Beautiful work! I like this work even better because you took care to include some well chosen space/punctuation between the phrases (although I'm sure a choir would be able to make seem like they're continuous anyway but in this case you also gave them instructions for when to leave an 8th note of silence). But, in measure 40, the mezzo-sopranos seem to have been omitted (by accident?) in the slight pause you gave all the other voices. Btw - did you overlay the cantamus rendition with some other choir patch and combined them? It seems like some of the voices are singing words while others are just aah-ing. But I might just not be hearing it right. Thanks for sharing!

Hello everyone. I have sad news. After much deliberation I decided that I want to quit composition and music overall. I lost the joy in creating my own pieces and I don't want to earn a living with music. I'm truly burnt out and I only like being a passive listener, without even trying to analyze the pieces. So, most likely I won't ever use this account ever again and for most people I will disappear. I unlisted all my videos on YouTube, that channel doesn't define me anymore and I want to move on. I want to say that I had a really good time in this community, specially at the start when I joined. I want to thank @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu and many others for supporting so many young musicians and keeping this forum alive. Also I'm glad I met @Theodore Servin and @Gwendolyn Przyjazna, who are good friends of mine now. I hope this forum will keep on going and helping new composers get a good basis that allows them to offer an artistic/cultural contribution to society. Best luck to everyone! Take care Sincerely, -Ivan