the most emo piece I’ve ever written

hi! i'm new here. this is my first post! 

i recently write this piece that i think you might enjoy if you are into a darker harmonic palette. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpNLO91ryqE

the piece grapples with new circumstances and transition. haunted by aching remembrances, REGENERATION explores themes of disrepair, aftermath, reconstruction, and the desire to change into something truer, stronger, and, altogether, more beautiful.

Hi Jordan and welcome to the forum! (I'm also new here!). Very beautiful composition perfectly structured. I like the variations and the epic feel at the end. It starts with a sad tone and apparently at the end, the hero of the composition managed to regenerate to something more true, stronger and beautiful. Thumbs Up!!

Wow! Thanks for listening @Nikolaos Dimopoulos. You are so kind. Just found your YouTube channel. Lovely work. Do you play the accordion? 

1 hour ago, Jordan Jinosko said:

Wow! Thanks for listening @Nikolaos Dimopoulos. You are so kind. Just found your YouTube channel. Lovely work. Do you play the accordion? 

 

Thank you for your kind words! I wish I could play the accordion! My song is completely made note by note with FL Stusio piano roll and I used a combination of three presets as shown in the pictures below and a few effects to make them sound like this.

@Nikolaos Dimopoulos incredible! Thanks for sharing! 

This is quite a vigorous piece of music!  I feel like since the ending ends on the V of the original key that it started in, it sounds like a half-cadence, and hence incomplete.  Did you intend for this to be the first movement in a longer work?  I think it could work really well in that kind of context.  The melodies in the introduction are very beautiful and enticing, almost bringing to mind Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakoff.  Once the piece gets going, it becomes quite dynamic and full of orchestration details that really dazzle the ears, much akin to a heroic John Williams score.  Great brass writing, and great orchestration in general.  The climax of the piece is at the very end, but like I said, feels incomplete to me.  But that's just my personal opinion.  Thanks for sharing this great piece!

3 hours ago, Jordan Jinosko said:

@Nikolaos Dimopoulos incredible! Thanks for sharing! 

 

Thank you too!!

@PeterthePapercomPoser You have incredible ears! I was thinking very much about the relationships between all the centers that I move through, especially between the beginning and the end. I didn't want it to end exactly where it started, but somewhere related. I also did want a half cadence feel for the ending, since the piece is essentially about a hero regenerating. The idea is that she will have much to do, now that she's reached her final form. 

It's refreshing to have someone listen to my music and hear it the way I do—through the lens of not just harmony and orchestration, but form also. And I definitely have been influenced by the composers you listed. For this specific piece I think my conscious influences were John Williams, Vaughan Williams, Samuel Barber, John Corigliano, Listz, Rachmaninoff, etc. 

Thanks for listening! 

Hello @Jordan Jinosko,

Welcome to the forum!

For me this piece has great orchestration and using all those colours for great effect. I like all those tremolos for indicating the struggle. The bassoon theme in 1:56, then contrast it with violin and then high woodwinds is beautiful. I love that climax building from 2:50 on. The climax is well prepared with layers adding, and the harmonic progression there is captivating. You use a augmented chord B-Eb-G for modulating and this really shows some tension here! In 3:13 when music reaches Eb major it's fascinating. It does remind me John Williams with that thick texture and orchestration, but the fact you're using the tritone major as the central point of the piece reminds me of Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. The key appears so beautiful here given the fact that it's highly contrasted with the bare A minor!

I agree with Peter about the incompleteness of the music. Not only it ends on a chord not so sure, but the climax is building and persisting all through the end makes me feel like the music ends on a sudden. But as you say the hero is regenerating in the music, that sudden end can mean a clear cut for her/him from the past struggle. 

Thanks for sharing and joining YC!

Henry

@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu Thanks so much for listening! I loved reading all your thoughtful comments.