| COMPOSITION | SCORE | COMMENTS | ||||||||||||||||||
| CLASSICAL & ORCH. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| N.C.F. Theme | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Camelot 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| NN | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Piano Concert 1 in C, mov 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| My Clair de Lune | ||||||||||||||||||||
| My La Malaguena | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Menace | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd Movement | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mechanoscape | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Symphony 1, mov 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sometimes I Dance | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Christus Cterben | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cello & Strings | ||||||||||||||||||||
| April | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Spanish Sowcase Festival | ||||||||||||||||||||
| March, Elegy and Victory | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Speedy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Concerto Italiano | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Themes of an Angry Specter | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A Journey in the Flying Machine | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Piano Sonata mov 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| String Quartet, mov 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| NON ORCHESTRAL | ||||||||||||||||||||
| I Don't Care | 6.50 | Very simple melody and harmony, even too simple for my taste. The dist guitar part is not convincing, repetitive and with very little feeling. Some variation of the melody in the second part would make things better. Drums are much better than other instruments, though based mainly on copied and pasted patterns. Adding rolls in one place or another would bring more life into it. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Where You Came From | 7.50 | Sounds pretty good as for a 3-chord tune. Good guitar accompaniment with surround effect, maybe a little too loud in relation to other parts. I liked also the late introduction of bass in m.28-30. The whole is too monotonous, though, with too many idle fragments. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5AM2 | 5.70 | Very unrealistic way of playing piano. | ||||||||||||||||||
| To Morrow Too | 8.20 | Very balanced arrangement. It reminds me very much of "Moorea" by Wade Culbreath. I would even say it is a paraphrase of this tune, but I may be wrong. At least the chord progressions are the same. Good piano improvisation apart from the very unusual use of pitch bends with this instrument. I think it would be more natural to add a left hand to it. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Time Passes By | 7.80 | I liked this music, but it is too short, with no continuation after a nice and promising beginning. Rich use of effects (reverb, chorus, cut-off, sustain). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Message From The Venus | 6.70 | A short tune, but in spite of that it sounds very monotonous to me. The chord progressions are too obvious and repetitive. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rain Dancing | 7.00 | Good audio sound at my SC-D70, but too many repetitive patterns in most parts, especially in the piano part. Too mechanical performance due to overquantization. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Waltz Theme | No score - my own song. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Musical Happiness | 8.80 | Provided the main theme is original (it sounds a little familiar to me) - a pretty good job. Good piano accompaniment and well done vibe and trumpet solos. Very smooth arrangement. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Just The Way You Are | 8.40 | I also liked this arrangement, although I found it a little repetitive in places. Very good bass part. The ornamentations in the guitar part were sometimes undecisive with some slight rhythm deviations, but I see you know what it is all about and I like it. Good job, but the score is for the arrangement only, so it must be a bit lower. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Solitude | 7.50 | Not quite convincing to me. I think you have introduced several motives that have not been developed enough or that find no continuation in the following passages. Therefore the whole arrangement seems a little disjointed in places. I liked the square wave passage in m78. Good final part. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hungarian Girl | 6.50 | Good melody line, but the arrangement might be improved. Adding a contrasting part somewhere in the middle would be a good solution. The final part needs also improvement (sounds unfinished). | ||||||||||||||||||
| MIXED & UNKNOWN | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Walk in the Park | 5.00 | I was under the impression that effects are most important here and the music is only an addition to them. Not very convincing. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Did I Pass You By | 5.00 | |||||||||||||||||||
| April Tango | 7.10 | Funny. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Percussin and Swearin | 7.30 | Very unusual combination of extremely different elements. Low choir unisono, bird singing and wild bongo and drum strikes. Technically very well done, but I am not a good listener of such music. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tuna Salad | 7.50 | Sounds pretty good thanks to many elaborated midi effects, but I think panning was a bit exaggerated. As to the music itself, my attitude is more traditional, so I was not delighted with what I heard. I liked a few fragments, especially in the middle part, but the composition as a whole was not convincing to me. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Little Tree | 8.70 | After the beginning my expectations were much greater from what I heard next. The beginning was really very well done and I liked it indeed, but then the music was falling more and more and I wish I could hear a really dynamic finale with restrospect to the initial part. Apart from that - a very good job. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Legend 22 | 7.40 | The first part could serve as a thriller soundtrack. Further parts are not so expressive, but the general impression is good. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Progressive Divertimento | 9.30 | I am under impression. Excellent job both in music and MIDI technique. Mixed styles from rock through jazz, fusion or even ethno. Very good organ and flute parts (natural and convincing). I liked also the orchestral backing and short piano passages inserted now and again. Maybe the variation changes (every 4 measures) were a bit too frequent as a result of which the composition seemed not so fluent, but it is a minor fault. Congratulations | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eagle | 6.00 | Nice theme, but too many repetitions of it. I have several reflections concerning MIDI technique - total quantization, equal note velocities. Everything looks as if created by some automated MIDI program. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Great Wall | 8.80 | Very good cinematic music with a nice ambient sound. I liked the way you used effect and percussion instruments. | ||||||||||||||||||
| EXPERIMENTAL | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Oleoneptric | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Theme 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chopping up Freddie | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 7.27 | ||||||||||||||||||||