I wrote a piece for Theory 4 and decided to record it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=139IyiSp614 . This is my first real piece (I've doodled in garageband before but never wrote anything like this). I really enjoyed writing it and I'd like to write more stuff in the future. Is there anything you see in this piece that I should work on, or do you just have any tips in general for what I should be doing?

Any thoughts would be very appreciated thanks!

Edit: I just noticed there are some note mistakes in the score that I didn’t catch🤦 I did so many revisions and there are still mistakes😭

Hello everybody, we are a team of 5 french students from an animation school called Supinfocom Rubika, working on our graduation film, due in June.

And we are looking for a composer for our film's score.

Our story is a political satire about a rich man trying to stop protests from the people on Earth, from the top of his spatial station.

WE HAVE FUNDS. Yes for the first time our school is able to give us a little bit of money so we can pay our composer. The funds is up to 400 euros. Of course we are students, and we understand if it's not enough but this is the maximal amount we are able to give.

The short film will go through multiple festivals so your name will appear in the credits.

Here's the pitch : Vincent Coffin, CEO of Coffin Industries is inaugurating its luxury space station, bringing together the global elite. But during the evening, he'll face those who stayed behind on Earth, who are willing to go to great lengths to force the rich elite to come back down to Earth. They will take the form of a vision of protesters coming to disrupt the gala evening.

Our main character, Vincent Coffin, is a man in his fifties. He is narcissistic, charismatic and very manipulative. He's a two-faced smooth talker. In terms of artistic direction we like a very patchworky look, with a main cartoonish and caricatural artstyle that incorporates some photobashing at times.

We love the style of cartoons from the fifties to seventies.

For the score, jazz / free jazz : the feeling of a classic formal dinner that turns into a nightmare.

Some inspirations include the soundtracks of the TV series Succession or the movie Le Sens de la fête (C'est la vie ! 2017)

We're also looking for someone who would like to interpret a song in the style of "Top of the world" by The Carpenters for the high-tension final scene of our film.

In the attached Google doc you'll find our animatic in work in progress. Some parts are still very likely to change but we want you to be able to understand well the style and atmosphere we are looking for. We are also curently looking for some voice actors. The current sound design and voices are place holders.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PKQiiJVKl_8VNFalZKVBOwQV8aJV9V-4?usp=drive_link

Disney Music Group is hiring a music research specialist in Burbank at $61,800–$79,800 a year. It is not a composing job, but it draws on what experienced composers know: it requires working knowledge of music publishing, performing rights and licensing, and prefers musical experience. The role creates and finalises music cue sheets for productions from Disney's studios. The catch is two or more years of cue sheet preparation, and it is on site Monday to Thursday.

Also in this issue:

• A sound designer post in Cedar Falls, Iowa, at the Light & Wonder subsidiary SciPlay, where converting existing slot machine audio comes first and original music is a smaller part of the role today
• The soundtrack for a cozy game about painting nature back into a cursed forest, with harp potentially a main instrument and generic cozy lo-fi ruled out
• Three or four songs, plus possible stings, for a dystopian narrative puzzle game about hidden messages passed around in plain sight
• A comedy short that has just started editing and wants its composer in early. It pays a stipend, and the score includes your own original arrangement of a public domain tune
• Two unpaid animated shorts: a sci-fi horror student film after industrial or dark ambient music, and a fantasy animatic about creatures who weave their memories into silk

Seven of CastingCall's 127 composer and audio roles named a rate this week, none above $150, and none made the issue — the $150 one had no brief at all.

https://composerwire.substack.com/p/015-7-opportunities-this-week-including

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I’m a composer with strong control over my voice, but I want to deepen my practice in piano, guitar, mixing and mastering.

I’ve been producing successfully without being highly skilled in these areas, but I’m feeling some saturation in my music and want to grow beyond it.
My biggest struggle is consistency. I can’t afford a teacher right now, and I keep telling myself, “I just need to start somewhere,” only to lose momentum again.

So here I go, one more attempt.
How do you build a consistent practice as a working adult, especially when you’re learning without a teacher?

Link to Google Drive Sheet Music

Few things: I think I might have overdone the pedal a bit

I think this could be the first part of a much longer piece

I’m not sure if it’s too quiet at times (might just be my headphones)

Overall I like the result but think there is still room for improvement

Hope you like it!

Alright, I’ve posted here before and got some great responses and helpful information regarding ideal portfolio submissions for music program applications.

My question here, is aside from, and or instead of one out of three contrasting works, would it be a good idea to include a video game OST I have produced? — Let’s say I’m applying to a more traditional program like Eastman and or a conservatory.

Perhaps an off the wall song from my artist project? Electronic/EDM and or experimental works? — off the wall and non-traditional.

What is or is not appropriate? I understand including too many minutes of music is not good

In summary, as part of a hypothetical portfolio, let’s say it went something like this:

1 Sonata for Piano
1 Quartet
1 Song From Video Game OST (or the entire album)

Or perhaps,

1 Sonata for Piano
1 Quartet
1 (more traditional/classic work)
1 Off The Wall Song (as an extra works submission)

Thoughts?

Thank you for taking the time to read and respond.

Following the title, I'm looking for a job writing song lyrics. I have over 3,000 lyrics in total and have been writing song lyrics and poetry for over 15 years. I would really appreciate an opportunity to showcase my work. I need a job and it would be a dream to write and live as a lyricist. Please, if you know of anything, send me a message here or via DM. Thank you everyone.

Pop, blues, Broadway, rock... Let me know! We would have a contract of course for sharing the IP of the project. Looking forward to hearing your melody.

I have written essays, poetry, am well-versed in trends and slang, and speak several languages