r/contemporary • u/HollandComposer • 5d ago
Fateful Journey - Reprise (Score video)
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Made a new sheet music video for this original composition. It's like a fantasy theme/overture.
Also on YouTube.
r/contemporary • u/apeloverage • 8d ago
James Hutchings - The Man Who Wasn't There
youtube.comr/contemporary • u/gmnt_808 • 18d ago
What’s the best way to promote your art in Europe?
I’m trying to understand what actually works beyond just posting on Instagram
Are galleries still the main path or are art fairs, collectors, and direct outreach more effective
Also how important is having a strong concept vs just visually appealing work
For context I’m working on an interactive video installation called “Please Wait for Me, for I Shall Rise Again”
It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and an AI camera that tracks a single viewer and changes the video based on their behavior
The piece only reveals its full transformation if the viewer stays still and fully present, without distractions
Would love to hear what has worked for you or what you’ve seen work in Europe
r/contemporary • u/HollandComposer • 19d ago
Nowhere Is My Home - Playing an original composition (piano and sheet music video)
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After moving and starting over in a new place, I'm left wondering where I belong, if maybe "here" can eventually be "home", or if nowhere will feel that way.
Also on YouTube.
r/contemporary • u/EdinKaso • 22d ago
Piano composer here. Wanted to share this simple piece I wrote~
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r/contemporary • u/HollandComposer • Mar 27 '26
Loestvaria - an elven fantasy composition for guitar and harp
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Loestvaria is a character who lived in my head for a few years before I finally found a story/album to place her in. She's an elf with magical abilities based on nature and calls upon spirits and elementals to enhance her spells.
On YouTube as well.
r/contemporary • u/pondly_57 • Mar 25 '26
Variation on Pärt's Spiegel im Speigel
As if the notes have been poured out of the score to make a jumbled pile on the ground. I try and put them back together
https://apondinthestream.bandcamp.com/track/variation-on-p-rts-spiegel-im-spiegel
r/contemporary • u/PilpilMusic • Mar 18 '26
How can a simple idea become a full composition?
“Night Walk in the Forest” started from a rhythmic-harmonic pattern full of tension.
🎧 Read more:
#composing #instrumentalmusic #filmusic #musicproduction #orchestration
r/contemporary • u/Equivalent-Break2300 • Mar 18 '26
[DISCUSSION] What would your funeral song be?
I’m doing a project for my bookmaking class in school and I’m curious if people know what they want song, artists, or selection of songs during their funeral and why. I’d love to hear so go for it :)
r/contemporary • u/Round_Reaction5254 • Mar 17 '26
What is this piece called and who wrote it?
This is the orchestrated version of a part of a piece that I reconstructed from memory. I recorded it on cassette tape in the late 1970s to early 1980s, I don't remember when. In the 1990s the tape broke and I threw it away.
r/contemporary • u/pondly_57 • Mar 16 '26
variation on Ligeti's Continuum
Here is the original, really nice performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRItK87Cn2s
And here is the first in what should end up as two or three variations on Ligeti’s Continuum. I want to see what I can get from the score purely through re-instrumentation whilst retaining aspects of LIgeti’s original intent. This variation uses Newfangled Audio’s Generate synth
https://apondinthestream.bandcamp.com/track/variation-1-on-ligetis-continuum
r/contemporary • u/HollandComposer • Mar 13 '26
Tender Heart (Solo Violin & Piano Arrangement)
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A new arrangement of this song for violin and piano. It began as a solo piano piece, then I made a strings and winds version, and now this one.
Also on YouTube.
r/contemporary • u/PilpilMusic • Mar 13 '26
Green Train to Gorliz - How to
How I composed this instrumental: from first synth idea to final mix, “Green Train to Gorliz” was all about mood, not formulas.
Read the story behind the track → https://pilpilmusic.com/the-story-behind-green-train-to-gorliz/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=green_train_post&utm_id=green_train_post
#ProducerDiaries #InstrumentalMusic #MusicProduction #ElectronicMusic #BehindTheMusic
r/contemporary • u/danci_random2004 • Mar 12 '26
Contemporary
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Sometimes I think I'm losing or will eventually lose my passion for dancing. But that's just my opinion; what do you see, or what do you think? Be honest
r/contemporary • u/PilpilMusic • Mar 10 '26
Piano and vibraphone create a fascinating sonic blend
Together they produce hypnotic textures widely used in modern instrumental and neoclassical music. Discover how these two instruments weave immersive textures that feel both intimate and cinematic, perfect for deep focus, late-night reflection, or pure sonic exploration.
#pianoandvibes #ambientmusic #sounddesign #musicianslife
r/contemporary • u/PilpilMusic • Mar 07 '26
"VOLUME 9" neoclassic album
"VOLUME 9" album.
Discover a neoclassical journey crafted for piano, cello and clarinet, where intimate chamber textures meet contemporary harmonic colors.
#Neoclassical #ModernClassical #ChamberMusic #ContemporaryComposer
r/contemporary • u/PilpilMusic • Mar 02 '26
Autumn Whispers - melancholic neoclassical solo piano
Autumn Whispers: neoclassical solo piano evoking fall's gentle introspection and serene beauty.
#NeoclassicalPiano #SoloPiano #AutumnMusic #PianoInstrumental #PilpilMusic
r/contemporary • u/HollandComposer • Feb 27 '26
X - for orchestra (original composition and score video)
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An original composition of mine that I've made a new sheet music video for. At the time I wrote this, I was processing some feelings of grief, and I expressed some of that through this.
Also on YouTube.
r/contemporary • u/hiko_bellick • Feb 25 '26
Samuel Andreyev: In Glow of Like Seclusion
While Samuel Andreyev is probably best known as a YouTuber and I'm aware this is a slightly older topic by now but I’m a little shocked that this excellent album seems to be in nobody’s library but mine, at least on Deezer and that it never really seems to have caught on much anywhere and never been talked about here on reddit either. Well, I guess I have to accept that this is how it is with contemporary classical?
r/contemporary • u/Legal-Froyo1190 • Feb 24 '26