So what are you working on?

Just one of those threads...

I'm working on a few things, I'll name all the things I want to finish:

Chamber piece (still working on the name) for Oboe, Bass-Clarinet, Viola, Harp, Marimba, Timpani, and Percussion.

Brass Quartet piece (which will get rehearsed in a couple of weeks and performed/recorded :w00t:!)

Fugonia for Wind Quartet....(tentative title :laugh:)

Dance and Fugue - Final movement of my wind quartet, which I am just now rewriting.

Various smaller works, like a short fugue for 2 oboes, a couple piano solo piece (very romantic and personal :closedeyes:...of course I will share them, though)

Also, I'm slowly building up ideas and slowly writing a string quartet for a competition next year. I have a lot of time, so I'm just gonna steadily and slowly work on this piece, so by next year it will be really polished.

That's it for me...

What about you :w00t:?

I'm working on orchestrating my 20-minute opera about a supermarket for chamber orchestra. If you guys want to see the reduced score, I'll upload it :)

I'm also working on learning how to write a fugue (from my teacher). I need to start writing more diverse music for college applications!

I'm writing down themes for a band suite. (March, Waltz, Variations, scherzo, rondo)

and a piano peice or two.

I'm working at getting back up to speed on piano in time for college auditions next spring.

I have a theme that's kind of been "haunting" me, but I can't decide what to arrange it for. :( I worked on a few bars of an orchestral setting and mess around with it on piano a lot, and just started considering arranging it for band today. Grr.

I'm working on a piece called

An Overflow for String Quartet

I'm writing a string quintet that's giving me some trouble. It will probably be in one movement.

I'm also doing a tone poem type thing for piano that I may eventually orchestrate; I think it ought eventually to be.

Triple Concertino for Three Oboes. An impossible orchestration, but it will be great.

My biggest project right now would be a piece I call "Sacrosanctum" which quickly proved itself to be tedious work: it's an odd blend of baroque and neoclassical elements with heavy metal and ska. If all goes well, I plan on having it done this week, since I'm on spring break.

On the "back-burner" so to speak I have a plethora of smaller projects that I'm slowly trying to finish, including a rhapsody for piano, prelude for organ, a Stravinsky-esque suite based off of an incident in the dorms (everyone wanted me to make music for it so I gave in and decided to work on it), a series of works evocative of the ocean, A half-finished suite based on the K

A piece called

"Annie's Rose"

I'm working on a few things (other than what's in my signature).

A short piece for string quartet inspired by my intense hatred of the string quartet sound (hope I don't offend anyone!). Very angular and dissonant.

A very irritating and satirical operetta making fun of the education system over here in Australia. Won't go into too much detail seeing as you probably won't get most of the humour.

A saxophone sonata (Yeah, I write way too much for saxophone). Polytonal, dissonant, but often quite lyrical. In a moderate - slow - fast pattern.

My 2nd symphony... I want it to be BIG! It's in 5 parts, and all the tempos are related (alla Robert Simpson).

And yeah, my saxophone concerto. I haven't written anything for it for a little while. So far I have completed about half of the first movement and the first minute or so of the slow movement. It starts off quite grotesque but the quickly descends into all sorts of dark, mysterious, angry and in the slow movement elegiac moods.

I usually work on several things at once, because I get burned out if I focus on one thing too long.

Right now I'm working on:

1) Symphony #2 for Wind Symphony and Harp. Movement 1 is finished (see the Large Ensemble forum), movement 2 is half finished, and movements 3, 4, and 5 are sketched.

2) Burlesque Suite for Saxophone and Band. Movement 1 is sketched, movements 2, 3, and 4 are mapped out but not finalized.

3) a top secret symphonic work in five movements for a large symphonic band. Movement 1 is sketched, movements 2-5 are mapped out and a few motives written.

and what's consuming my time the most...

4) A work for strings in three movements. First movement has been drafted but is being rewritten (see Incomplete Works forum), second movement is half finished, and third movement is sketched and partially completed.

Just a little visit from the TMI fairy...

Just finished scoring the computer game "Diamond in the rough" by Atropos Studios: Nothing adventured, nothing gained (yay! SPAM!)

Now I'm working on a very special indeed work for solo piano (<-solo) to be performed by as many people as possible through the Internet, online and then send all performance files to me! It sounds lame but I really can't share any details... :)

I also have a comission about a choir piece, but I've not even started yet.

Oh! and have a comission for a string orchestra piece, for Fall 2008, which I've certainly not started yet! hihi!

im working on a piano-concerto-ish 3 movement extravaganza!!!

Dog Whistle and Garbage Truck Concerto.

I'm finishing the touches on a chamber piece for Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Harp, and Percussion.

I'm halfway through a song based on the poem "The Isles of Greece" by Lord Byron.

I'm starting to work on a woodwind quintet, minus horn, add bass clarinet. I hate the horn.

I've finished a piece for jazz band, but I'm reorchestrating it for wind ensemble instead.

That's me right there.

I'm arranging music for my new 11/12-piece group: Blunt Object.

It's spectacular.

Currently trying to write as much as possible, scrapping 99% of everything I write and continuing with my futile attempts at creativity.

I have to write an isorhythmic percussion piece with isorhythm in at least three parts. By Monday. And I am spending all Saturday at a theme park. And I am partying tonight. And I haven't started it yet. And I am still here, writing posts at YC... (I was actually printing my previous project, but anyway)

I'm working on two things...

1) just finishing of a Technical Metal/Melodic Death metal demo using Reason as my starting point, basically lots of polyrhythmic overlays on a stock 4/4 time signature.

2) just starting work on what will (hopefully) turn into a concept album, entitled 10 Storey Drop.

Slowly but surely a cynical set of songs revolving around genocide and how people relate violence to entertainment. I am not a blues fan or jazz fan but my music seems to be very driven with such elements with a mixture of rock and I also make use of classical-guitar style playing so it is quite a blend.

It's something which will, in the end, be a concept album. Primarily it is about the second world war and a captive's struggle in Auschwitz-Birkeneau, but as I mention above it will also be about how violence gets associated with entertainment these days. (Films like "Saw" and "Hostel" and whatnot...I like Hostel, though and the first Saw; all rather psychological and intriguing. But people have become desensitized to horror and violence thanks to mass media)

It's something which will, in the end, be a concept album.

Go the concept albums :D

It just makes more sense, when it comes to rock and such, to make concept albums in stead of just merely a collage of songs that are not connected

Go the concept albums :D

What is your concept with "10 storeys"?

Bragi's Tale

4-Part Orchestra Piece

A. Genisis - (Disonant! , non-linear Vibraphone Part Central Devlopment) - Finished - 4 minutes in length

B. Stone Guardians - (Features 1 Chord Progression which is built from parallel Modal Scales) 75% of the way Through It - 6 minutes in length

C. Pearl Obelisk (Happy Slow Ala Princess's Round from Stravinsky) Not Started

est 6min

D. To Oblivion (Breakdown into Dissonance) Not Started

est 4min

A song based on the poem "Holy Thursday" from William Blake's "Songs of Experience."