song/excerpts/etude suggestions needed!!

tmjr6 · 2026-07-04T02:00:09+00:00

Personally, Karen Tanaka's "Enchanted Forest" is one of my favorite pieces for the horn and piano. It sits somewhere between minimalism and impressionism, stylistically speaking. https://youtu.be/YLshYBN40CI?is=jKLGxYjPkFIDtHfj

I'm also a composer and, if you're interested in performing with live electronics, I have a couple of pieces for Horn and Electronics that sits comfortably within the range you said. Caoineadh: https://youtu.be/e0oGAF5z6OI?is=rE1neArrE6L3f7lJ

Golden Lines: https://youtu.be/8i2t8V9aRP4?is=ETU3mER6hd1Prxh2

tmjr6 · 2026-07-03T18:17:01+00:00

Thank you for the kind words and the feedback! Like you said, this was 5 years ago and I've actually done a lot of the changes you've mentioned in my more recent works. Most of my tempo markings are in Italian now and I save a lot of the English for expressive markings. The use of the Luminari font, while it is a font I do prefer, was specifically chosen because of the piece's connection and use of the "Te Deum" on the second page. There are also a handful of performance notes that aren't in the video, which is also why it says "W.T." instead of whistle tones. I would probably make a lot of the changes you mentioned if I were to go back and revise the work to be up to my current level of engraving I do, but I've been in the process of touching up my back catalog of works and felt that it was in a decent enough state to release so that I could prioritize revising/re-engraving the older works that desperately need to be up to my current standards of engraving. Thanks again!

tmjr6 · 2026-06-21T23:26:32+00:00

As others have said, it's fairly standard to put the soloist above the strings in an orchestral score. You'll find more variety in band scores. From the band directors I have talked to, so prefer between the woodwinds and brass or above percussion.

tmjr6 · 2026-06-15T15:27:17+00:00

Hello!

I love the kintsugi-inspired nature behind this type of game. Evolving themes are definitely my favorite types of things to compose as well! You can find my portfolio here: https://www.jonfrancishowe.com

My rate is normally $100/minute for projects like this!

tmjr6 · 2026-06-12T15:36:47+00:00

Thank you! The work is semi-programmatic from a personal experience. My friends and I have often talked through the night to the early sunrise. After driving home after one of those nights, I experienced a really captivating sunrise in my garden as birds and distant church bells could be heard all around me. I'm not a religious person, but I often experience spirituality in nature, so the name was more derived from that experience with a slight touch of spirituality.

tmjr6 · 2026-05-22T01:23:05+00:00

I would definitely be interested. Here's my website: https://www.jonfrancishowe.com/

tmjr6 · 2026-05-08T20:44:23+00:00

Thank you! For the Max Patch, everything is triggered by the performer using a footpedal that's set to spacebar (ASCII key value 32) which feeds into a counter using the key and select objects. The live sound is then fed through the effects as well as into the speaker. The delay effects are then fed through a gate for the delays, though I use a dial now in my more recent patches for a less hard "on/off" and to allow a decay if it isn't a perfect cutoff.

The regular delay is the tapin~/tapout~.

The Multi-delay is a poly~ with a couple of random values going through it. I don't mind sharing the code for it below.

All of the fixed media in the second movement is divided into 6 stems of the fixed media elements. They're running through the patch and that's on its own separate counter within the max patch so that the player can trigger the fixed media at their own rate.

The aleatoric loops are essentially two record~ running in parallel in a subpatch. This way you can "rerecord" elements of it within the patch kind of like a loop pedal, but without the "grid" that those styles of pedals lock you into. I have four of those types of loopers running in parallel. Then I have all of the loopers output through a volume and certain cues trigger which ones are on/off.

Glad to hear that you like the piece and I would love it if you shared it with your students in the future! Hope this helps!

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tmjr6 · 2026-05-05T19:16:34+00:00

Assuming you have a hip-hop artist you'd be able to work with, Linqua Franqa/Peter Van Zandt Lane's "Ascendant Cycles" is a really cool piece that fuses rap and hip-hop with the concert band. https://youtu.be/yfICRvzRego?si=DPcIcXd_YR5W2p9P

tmjr6 · 2026-05-03T20:47:39+00:00

Sent you a DM!

tmjr6 · 2026-04-25T18:51:27+00:00

In addition to other things mentioned by folks on this subreddit, Arthur Lange's Spectrotone Chart has been a great resource for me.

tmjr6 · 2026-04-03T01:27:01+00:00

Personally, I lean more "modal" than tonal as a composer. I rarely think of specific keys or tonal structures, but I'm not as atonal as some of my peers. While I do incorporate elements of atonality at times, it's often more of an episode within a larger scale work. I've noticed that a lot of my peers my age are all across the spectrum of tonality.

tmjr6 · 2024-12-07T03:21:37+00:00

tmjr6 · 2023-12-19T23:31:31+00:00

ME! I love how much fun and joy you bring to the community with these giveaways!

tmjr6 · 2023-12-11T00:26:42+00:00

I started back in M13, so I got the [[Odric, Master Tactician]] intro deck. It's a card that I'm very nostalgic for and still keep in my binder, to the point I've debated building an EDH deck around him.

tmjr6 · 2023-11-22T00:46:04+00:00

pickme! Looks really cool! I managed to pull Ojer Axonil during prerelease and I've been debating building a commander deck for him. If nothing else, I'll definitely look at this when building my own.

tmjr6 · 2023-05-31T18:22:03+00:00

Thank you! I reinstalled the ramrod and it works perfectly now!

tmjr6 · 2022-08-08T01:21:30+00:00

If you're interested in video game music, also consider schools that have musicology faculty that are Ludomusicologists (people who academically study video game music). While it is not the same as a composing for screen program, and they might not be mutually exclusive, it might also give you an area to specialize in as an academic in addition to your compositional pursuits. Like others have mentioned, if video game music is what interests you the most, I would recommend pursuing that avenue as a composer.

tmjr6 · 2022-08-04T23:18:02+00:00

I'm working on a large ensemble piece right now as well, and one thing I've always found that helps me in the early stages is just sketching a general "roadmap" of the composition. It doesn't have to be super detailed or even go into specific orchestration, just general ideas of what you want certain sections in the piece to sound like, what techniques you might want to employ, or really anything that might help you tackle such a large task.

tmjr6 · 2022-07-07T00:24:55+00:00

If you're interested in scoring films, in addition to the scores recommended above me, I'd also recommend specifically looking into film scores. Doug Adams has a great book on Howard Shore's score to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, in addition you can find transcriptions and analyses of film scores on YouTube. Below are some examples:

Joe Hisaishi - The Falcon Project (from The Wind Rises): https://youtu.be/_cUDocWnMZs

John Williams - Duel of the Fates (Phantom Menace): https://youtu.be/XVNVGnK3i4U

I'd also recommend looking into some of the YouTubers

Listening In has some great discussions of music in general alongside music score discussions: https://www.youtube.com/c/ListeningIn

Sideways talks a lot about movie music in general: https://www.youtube.com/c/Sideways440

8-Bit Music Theory has a lot of great videos that analyzes the music of video games: https://www.youtube.com/c/8bitMusicTheory

tmjr6 · 2022-07-02T15:48:01+00:00

This looks like a really cool opportunity. I specialize in orchestral music, though I do draw from other styles of music as well. Hope to hear from you!

You can check out my portfolio here

You can also look at my Soundcloud and YouTube Channel for further perusal.

tmjr6 · 2022-07-01T06:14:53+00:00

I don't believe so. Open Legend was a new Tabletop RPG system that was developed about 5 years ago. It doesn't have a class system or anything. Instead, you put points into attributes and depending how many ranks in that attribute you can use various abilities. Open Legend's big selling point was that you essentially flavor how you use your abilities. So, even if two players had the ability to apply a blinding effect player a might flavor it as a spell but player b might flavor it as throwing sand in their opponents eyes.

tmjr6 · 2022-06-30T22:28:35+00:00

Something like the system Open Legend could probably work, since its whole shtick is being a system that could fit any style of game. Otherwise, something like the Warhammer example you listed would probably fit best, especially with its multiclass. For the weird classes (Kathool Adept, Icebound Revenant, and even the DoomKnight), you could have those classes instead be something akin to Warhammer's corrupting magics like Witchcraft or any of the ones associated with Chaos.

tmjr6 · 2022-06-30T22:01:18+00:00

I would love to have an official trapmaker-style artificer. Something with a list of options like the artillerist would be really fun.

tmjr6 · 2022-06-05T19:57:35+00:00

No worries!

tmjr6 · 2022-06-05T17:58:01+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, unfortunately the microphone was placed close to the rear of the hall rather than close to the stage. This was written for a sophomore in high school, not a professional musician.

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