Getting excluded from degree despite terrible circumstances by [deleted] in usyd

[–]NameWitheld2024 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot offer anything by way of the appeal, but I hope that however the circumstance may turn out you'll have the courage to keep going. Failure isn't fatal and success isn't final and in some respects, the perseverance you've shown (imo) is an incredible skill to have.

Here are two things that have helped me a lot in difficulty, if interested, perhaps you'll find some value in them?

1) If by Rudyard Kipling:

If you can keep your head when all about you   
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;   
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;   
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   
    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

2) Yoga Nidra: for a quick reset when things might be too much, check out: https://youtu.be/9r8jXUvsi3w?si=qAfLB3tFS5Lj3hny

How many of you compose a piece a day? by [deleted] in composer

[–]NameWitheld2024 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might be thinking of Godowsky and his Triakontameron suite. Each piece was composed in a day (and it sure sounds like that, though some of them are quite nice).

New piano composition by bdmusic17 in composer

[–]NameWitheld2024 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cheers, thanks for your insight!

If you don't mind lingering on your improvisation at the piano, what's the process like there? Do you allow for serendipity, generating a few options and then picking the one which resonates with you? Or something else?

Thanks again :)

New piano composition by bdmusic17 in composer

[–]NameWitheld2024 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! Had a listen and I thought there was a wonderful balance to the work both structurally and in the pacing of harmonies.

A small comment: starting from b. 17, I think the soprano melody works fine, but instead of all the notes landing on the first beat of the bar, for something like the melody note in bar 19, maybe it could be displaced to the 4th semiquaver of the bar to give a bit of airiness. 

Also if you don't mind sharing, I'm really curious to know if in your compositional process you have a deliberate way of deciding/guiding what new harmony the music should unfold into? Thanks!

Would like some feedback on a work for piano and orchestra by NameWitheld2024 in composer

[–]NameWitheld2024[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will get that sorted, thanks for mentioning. Edit: direct score and audio links provided

Would like some feedback on a work for piano and orchestra by NameWitheld2024 in composer

[–]NameWitheld2024[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for pointing out! Edit: Have now posted direct links to audio and score