Thatguy v2.0's Archive - Viral Declamation

Here's another piece I wrote a while back, from '08. Explored diminished chords a bunch, I was really into Stravinsky at the time (probably). I received a lot of feedback with this one, and I was really happy with the community being engaged with my music to better my composing chops. Any comments are welcome!

Score can be found here, in the first post: 

First of all the sound quality is very good, wish I could achieve something like that for strings.

Second, I don't think I can add anything more than my subjective views and feelings that appeared while listening to the piece. Here I go:

• From the beginning to 2:27: both rythm and melody are epic. Noticed some 5p markings when reading the piece BTW, that's wild.

• The pizz. part around 3:40 fits quite good and connects very well with preceding and following passages; overall I see how this work is really solid and clearly would serve for many purposes. I might have mentioned somewhere in this forum: I love DQ VIII music and this piece reminds me to the caves and boss music of that game hence I bet it would be sick to be used as part of a videogame OST made by you. The whole slow or more calm section that ends around 5:40 is as interesting and catchy to me as the first one. And you come back to it.

• What I'll call " A' " or "enhanced A" is literally that. You come back with a reinforced and perhaps more macabre version of some phrases you stated at the beginning of the piece which by the way you develop satisfyingly in my opinion. Perhaps I'll have more to add whenever I find time to listen to it more carefully.

• The last 30-40 seconds of "coda" (?) are really giving me a feeling of conclusion... The end was abrupt, more or less unexpected but still somehow fitted and I believe you were building the coda to end like this. It was very intense, you nailed it.

Sorry for the lack of detail. In any case I must say that this work was really impressive and immersive (perhaps the harmony you more or less restricted yourself to move in contributed to that feeling).

Thank you for bumping this! It was really delicious to listen to it twice.

Kind regards,

Daniel–Ømicrón.