Some stuff I come up with

[mahler10th]

Here is Birds in the City.

https://www.youtube.com/v/AAgsrvhQu2U

I cobbled it together in 2010 for something, can't remember what...Of course, it is somewhat rudimentary, I have done much better... 

[Sergeant Rock]

Birds in the City

I'm disappointed. I thought your music would show some influence by Schoenberg...but no 




Sarge

[mahler10th]

I'm disappointed. I thought your music would show some influence by Schoenberg...but no 

Sarge

I was channeling Schoenberg at the time, and he told me to make it as repetitive as hell to create a new genre called 'multi-tone'.   

[Sergeant Rock]

I was channeling Schoenberg at the time

I hear it now, a bit of dissonance around 4:50 

Sarge

[cjvinthechair]

Well, as someone who is equally rudimentary, I found it an enjoyable listen, thank you !

[mahler10th]

Well, as someone who is equally rudimentary, I found it an enjoyable listen, thank you !

Why, thank you very much Clive.   

[Cato]

Greetings and Felicitations to Johannes Scotus!

What sort of music program did you use?

[jochanaan]

If that were a live harpist, s/he'd be in danger of the carpal tunnel syndrome!

It sounds a little like a movie score.  My only comment about it musically is that I'd like a little less literal repetition.  It's rather minimalist, so the repetition is not bad in that context--but the great minimalists such as Glass, Reich, and Adams are masters at gradual transformation.

If you want to develop this further, you might try some gradual chromatic alterations in your harmonies.

[Karl Henning]

If that were a live harpist, s/he'd be in danger of the carpal tunnel syndrome!

Maybe the solution is, deploying/coordinating two harpists.

[mahler10th]

Greetings and Felicitations to Johannes Scotus!
What sort of music program did you use?

If that were a live harpist, s/he'd be in danger of the carpal tunnel syndrome!
It sounds a little like a movie score.  My only comment about it musically is that I'd like a little less literal repetition.  It's rather minimalist, so the repetition is not bad in that context--but the great minimalists such as Glass, Reich, and Adams are masters at gradual transformation.
If you want to develop this further, you might try some gradual chromatic alterations in your harmonies.

Cato, I used a lot of different things to come up with this - lots of sound samples, mixcraft, my silly little midi keyboard (Creative Prodikeys), etc.  I was only jingling around with stuff...like I say, it is 'cobbled together' and not 'composed' from scratch per se.

jochanaan, wow how wonderful that you came up with a professional opinion on it.  How very kind of you to even listen.  I have decided to become a minimalist electronic composer focusing on longer chromatic alterations and more gradual transformations!      Thanks.  I'm inspired now to do some more messing around.  And more listening to Arvo Part...  

[Mirror Image]

Very cool, John. I once fooled around with one of the Sibelius notation programs just to have some fun (I can't write music) and I just put some random stuff here and there and the end result sounded like a cross between Stravinsky and Webern. No joke! I really would like to study music seriously though and learn to be a composer or at least get proficient enough to be able to read, and study, music scores.