Madison Rye Progress

Eyyy, yeah! Got my undergrad in composition from Colorado State. Took ages to do so since I was working, but thankfully I was paying by credit rather than by year.

My concentration was choral music specifically, and I was in choir the whole time I was there. It was a ton of fun, really, and I remain super thankful for the chance. I liked writing for choir okay, and wrote a few songs. Attached is a dodgy performance from my senior recital of one of my pieces, I Often Wondered. The words of the poem are the same down as they are across, and thus so are the chords of the song.

My real favorite thing to write for, though, is the piano. Attached is an early piece from uni, Tempest.

greetings, all! COMPOST #4, the fourth installment of cohost's casual music-making compo, is here! (cohost. compo. compost. yes.) if you've got some time today, join us and make a little song!!

COMPOST is loosely based on the one-hour compo, a quick event where participants make a tune in one hour based on a prompt, or with a provided sample pack. although they're alive and well today (particularly in the form of "one-hour battles"), they go way way back to IRC channels of yore!

here's how our variant works:

• follow the provided prompt; you can interpret it however you like, use it as a liftoff point
• ideally you should spend one to two hours on your track maximum. but i'm not a cop, so do what feels right. the spirit of the x-hour compo is generally to make something quick and not feel pressured to polish : )
• upload it here on cohost as an audio post once you're done
• tag your submission with the tag COMPOST #4 so we can all check it out!
• there's no scoring or judging or anything like that, but i highly encourage leaving nice comments and listening through the other submissions, as that's the most fun part! of course feel free to mention in your post if you do or don't want feedback
• submission period is open for the next 24 hours, to keep this event timezone-friendly. it's beginning and ending at midnight EST. here's a countdown to help you out
• if you want, you can make some other form of art also/instead. this was conceived as a music compo but there is really nothing stopping it from expanding further

if you're interested in checking out the previous installments of this series, here are some links - people have made all sorts of wonderful music in many styles & methods:

• prompt #1 / all 43 entries! (thank you @adibabidan for compiling)
• prompt #2 / all 43 entries! (thank you @glotch for compiling)
• prompt #3 / all 35 entries! (thank you @glotch for compiling)

More process music? More process music.

1 hour! Yeesh...

I am not nearly so fast at music as I am at words, so there is...no editing, and there are bits that need rather a lot of work, but also, despite having a degree in composition, this is the first thing I have written in I think 3 years, so I will take it. Maybe I will edit it later, but until then, I am happy to have even opened musescore