Hi,  I'm writing a 4 part piece for high school band called *camp*.  This is the introduction called *gnat*  It's supposed to be sort of annoying , because as we all know camping is usually a bittersweet experience.  At least for me it is.  Is it annoying enough?

 
https://soundcloud.com/david-sprouse-76324214/gnat
 

This is a more complete version
 
https://soundcloud.com/da..sprouse-76324214/gnat-1

I just listened to it with my third ear.  It's pretty annoying...

The horns sound pretty awful...:D

some cool ideas let down by the software I think. what is there is well mixed. reminds me of Lutoslawski in parts. you have a great imagination. actually this is very effective and impressive. you're right the brass esp is ****e, but really if played through VSO would be amazing

very kind mgh.  the triangles are vsl and you're right, they really shine compared to some of the brass samples.  The velocities are all wonky in the horns VSL is just so expensive.  

I couldn't get access. Maybe you're currently working on it?
LJ
 

LJ the second link works.  The first one is toast.  Thanks for listening btw.

Hi again,  eph221, 
 
I enjoyed that; I tend to get restless when I listen, but it didn't happen with this. It's evocative and, I find, cinematic. That is, it's easy to picture a scene in a suspenseful film with the tension upped by this music playing throughout. As for the gnat, I wondered if he (or she?) was on the ground instead of in the air in the middle there, as he/she seemed to be in imminent peril of being stomped!
 
The motif you brought in after that section was very tasty and you developed that whole following section really well, I thought.
 
Thank you for the lovely listen!
LJ
 

Lj, thanks for the wonderful review.  

It is kind of hard to get past those brass parts since there are lots of them, but the rest seems to work well - strings in particular sound good here.   I also get LJ's stomping reference in the middle - it does come across as giant feet coming down...  fortunately the gnat was able to remain elusive so can continue doing its thing in the third section.