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Have you thought about writing quarter tone pieces for multiple trombones? I think there is a lot of potential there, but I have very little experience composing. I love the sound of microtonal chorales though and would love to try playing one

This is an amazing arrangement! The title made me laugh out loud in my recommended and the vid was everything I hoped for! You earned a sub!

Beautiful! I was in the first choir to ever sing this piece anywhere! Carl Nygard was my high school choral director! In 1992, my senior year, we sang this in competition!! Mr Nygard gave us hand written music sheets because it hadn’t even been published yet! This psalm had already long been my favorite and a family favorite. About a month before our senior band/choral out of state competition trip my grandfather became very ill. He then passed away only days before the trip. His funeral was scheduled for the day of the main concert in the middle of the trip. My family all told me to go on the trip anyway and that my grandfather would have wanted me to go and not miss the trip for his funeral. I was torn. But listened to my family. It was very hard though to still go knowing I’d miss the funeral. As it turned out the funeral service was held at almost the exact same time as our performance. Before I left I asked if they could please recite psalm 23 at the funeral as my contribution to the service. So it ended up that at literally almost the exact moment we were singing it in competition on stage in Boston,MA they were reading it at my grandfathers funeral in Pennsylvania. I had tears streaming down my face the whole song. We were a powerful chorus very well led by Mr. Nygard and a large group of well over 200. We ended up taking first place in that category and multiple others in that large national competition. My Nygard, this piece, that performance, and trip will always mean the world to me. And you have captured it beautifully in this instrumental version! Thank you for sharing it!!

amazing work benjamin

I found you from a reddit thread... this is really interesting to listen to.

this is super cool!

NotePerformer is great, but the mockups aren't perfect. This is especially true when it comes to multiphonics and other extended techniques. Consequently, the audio of this video is not a perfect (nor even very close) representation of what the piece would actually sound like when played by a real person. I'm hoping to get this piece recorded soon, but it's a bit beyond my skill level and I'll have to get someone else to play it. I just wanted to get this video out there, and when and if I get an actual recording I'll upload it to my channel. Enjoy!

Kinda based. Keep it up.

I am curious what you use for sounds for your compositions, is it what's built into the notation program or separately programmed via midi and rendered from samples?

woah! nice!

This video has an unprecedented number of views and likes for my channel, as well as a very high average view duration. I wonder why that might be? Thanks for watching everyone, and if you like this piece I can recommend you listen to my second string quartet next!

I didn't mean for the first 30+ seconds of the video to be all black, but I guess it works!

Hey I saw your piece on reddit and wanted to give some feedback on it, but didn't want to do it in the thread as that would be unrelated to the discussion. I do like the texture of the intro in the first movement, it felt really full and minimalist and I liked it. I think the 4 against 3 polyrhythm really set it apart, I was hoping you'd explore that more in the flute solo spots, but those felt a little plain. without that personally. The second movement is nice, I like how it sounds, but it lacks any challenge in the flute part. The slow movement in a concerto should still be difficult to play. And it lacked any forward motion. Now it doesn't have to have as much momentum or drive as a faster movement, but it needed some eighth notes or triplet accompaniment at some point. Maybe when the melody repeated, it could've been played by the strings or horn while the flute does some fast arpeggios? The third movement is a little too similar to the first for my ear as Rich said. You can do a quick call back to the first movement, but I think it should've gone somewhere else immediately after that. Maybe that's when the switch to major should've occurred. And the ending felt a little abrupt to me personally. But the good thing about this piece is that it shows a very advanced knowledge of orchestration and you've made some smart decisions in that regard that really help out the piece. I think you could've reduced the instrumentation a little though. Bass clarinet and contrabassoon aren't really necessary in this piece I don't think. And perhaps the picc and english horn can be played by someone already playing flute and oboe? You would have to make some changes but if a real orchestra were to play this, they might request these things and you'll have to sacrifice some of this. And on the title card it says the duration is 32 minutes when the piece is only 14, was it intended to be longer? Hope this helps!

That was great! Loved the first movement especially. Very well written!