J Palarino

the question was how.

I am curious to find out how any of you/many of you? get your pieces performed? From large scale orchestral pieces to quartets and so-on. What do you use? Where do you go? etc. Perhaps there is a thread in the archive and I just couldn`t find it.

I agree with the above comments. The first movement seems to have had a lot more thought put into it. Solid enough film sound. The ending however could use a little more drama. The second movement could be better if you fleshed out the harmonies and orchestration a bit methinks.

I cant seem to get an mp3 uploaded am I doing something wrong? too large or something. anyone have any advice

I didnt mean to imply that you should try to werite something more "contemporary" just for the sake of doing so. In fact doing so is one of the worst possibly things you can do i think. However, I think, where you had a voice in the chamber work...this one sounded a little more atypical. And that nots necessarily a bad thing...as you mentioned it would be for the start of a concert. I think thats a great idea and this piece would serve that function very aptly. :shifty: thanks again.

Not to crazy with this piece Night fly. Howeverm, you had some exciting moments towards the middle and espcially the piano licks around the 3 minute mark. But something about the harmonic vocabulary of this piece was not to my personal aesthetic choices. Something about it sounded a little dated. Not sure why. That all being said...its still well crafted and an entirely enoyable piece. I was certainly not upset nor bored with listening to this. How could anyone be. You did have some Stravinsky moments in there...esp the end. :dry: Say what sampling programs and software do you use?

Thank you for the reviews. I try to write most of my melodies with a "exotic yet modern" feel to them. The reason, perhaps, that the meter changes are not as perceptable to you is that I never write thinking of a particular meter. I dont think any composer should. I usually write a piece and then go back after wards and plug in the appropriate meter changes for possiblity of human performances. :D thanks again. will post mp3, but right now it is seeming not to load. hmmm. too large?

This piecce is basically a theme and variations. Rather theme and alterations, where as I alter a theme and then variate the alterations and then continue the process. At the same time however there is a base point which is the main melody played at the opening of the piece. It has two main sections. The first is a melody based on the traditional shamisen music of Japan only the rhythms are straight and not "swung". (measures 2-4) The second and more melodically active of the two (measures 5-8) closes the theme and captures all 12 notes in the scale. Something I generally like doing with my themes. the other main cell is a rhytmically expanding idea. Simply 1 note, 2 notes, 3 notes. There are often sections where a note is repeated once, twice more, and then three times. Or the process is layered. Having 3 of the instruments play them at once. I wanted to create something that sounded somewhat archaic but modern. Something slightly stagnant in the way of key shifts but increasing interesting by way of rhythmic alteration and different uses of the primary material.

I couldnt give you any advice else it turn out to be my voice and not yours. Experiement with your keyboard.

Loved your string quartet overall. Finallly someone that knows how to write music with more than diatonic triads. Parts of it sounded especially Bartokian, but thats not meant as an insult in anyway. some critical anaylsis... first movement. Although its a midi and a live performance (obviously) would be more expressive I think you could do good and milk some of those running passages...followed by a chord. I started to think the chords were a bit (not in their color but rather their timing) a bit too expected. Especially the end. The last chord you have is lovely. How about a slight ritardando before it? wasnt to crazy about the second movement. Only because I kept thinking it would have make a better passacaglia. And that it seemed to get into the meat and potatoes of it all way to quickly. How about stretching out that opening line with some slight contrapuntal stuff in the harmony. Really make it sing out before you get into all that lovely busy stuff with all the double stops and what have you. third movement same as the second. Why must all forces be playing all the time? take some time to shift tone color entirely. You know well how to pass the voice around, but how about the color>? fourth movement. nice fugue. Well fits the harmonic vocabulary of the whole. Very Bachian the way you took that running figure and slowly germed its way inthere until it took particaly took over. Naturally some of the first movement stuff was to return, well done that. The fugue also sounded a lot like the pasacaglia that i wanted to hear in the second movement. haha. I liked that you brought back the dance like rythmn towards the end. perhaps even a direct quote would have been in order. again, i realy enjoyed this and most of my comments above are for lack of anything else...food for thought or possible just things that you havent thought about. Overall it was very refreshing to hear. Thanks for the listen. May I ask you to explain how you organized you pitch structure and form base for this piece?

well you have a general sound you want...or chord lets say. why not add layers of different instruments. Each playing a similar but slightly hocketed figure with varying dynamics. You can keep to the gernal structure of your chord or throw in a few non-chord tones and make the sounds a little richer. make sense?

reminds me of sort of a Danzig, Black Aria. But a slightly lighter version. I understand you desire for a "prelude" type quality to the piece, but how about adding some subtle texuring/layers to the backround it would create a really nice (and musically deep) river of sound for the listener while not compromising what you want artistically. thanks for the listen

Hmmm....Im always interested in setting poems as well. Pm or email me if you are interested. I have only one of my works posted on this forum but if you are interested to listen to it check out the thread called "metamorphosis" under Chamber works.

Hello everyone. While do post on other webforums...this is my first one here. Hope you enjoy it. Metamorphosis.mid