First of all, thank you so much for the feed back and sorry for the lack of a pdf or explanation, I found out about this forum when I was in school and I only had the file of the audio.(though in hindsight, I probably should've waited until I had access to the pdf)
But yeah I agree with you on a lot of the points you mention in this, this is my first big band composition I've worked on.
The state that this piece is in now I believe I "finished" writing about a month or two ago
A lot of the lead parts from this are from other, smaller pieces I've worked (sloppily) put to together.
I've had a hard time with this piece, as I'v been very split on where I want it to go, and it certainly is in a finished state, rights now I feel it's more of a college of ideas, rather than a comprehensive piece.
Though I want it to have more structure, I think I really want it to thrive as a sort of a "controlled chaos" though I feel like, so far, I've pursued it in the wrong way.
I want it to have a structure, and separate movements that all in tie into each other, but I do want a level of disorder to create tension in a way that's not done a lot in orchestral music, but more of a way that would be utilized more in jazz
So far I think my best progress towards this idea is actually through the percussion. I want it to feel sort of off, but not random. In a way that a jazz musician may use techniques to create a level of unbalance before pulling together.
Though, yeah, a lot of the parts in this I feel are kind of lazily put together, looking back, I think I should of structured together parts that fit together more rather than parts that I had simply thought of before in the past.
The reasoning behind the strange pauses are a combination of the lack of being able to come up with a good transition, and trouble with the program I used to write this(musescore), when creating those transitions I should tried more to push the music into the next section, rather than just stopping it and then starting again with a new idea.
I believe that when it comes this piece, I think I'm going to scrap it and try to pick out certain ideas in it, to try to put to together a more comprehensive vision, though it reflects the basic ideas of what I want to achieve with it, I do believe it is a far cry from being the complete experience I want it to be
Thank you, Ethan Truesdale
