I'll put every contest, challenges or competitions here. Note that most of these will have restrictions or limitations on composition and will probably not be as good sounding as my own compositions ;)

Composing Challenges and Competitions

Quartet + Sonata

24 8 23

This was my entry for Orchestral Tools's Scoring competition "The composer's Journey", only using Berlin Free orchestra sounds.

Check out the full score with video here:
https://youtu.be/JEXd_eZBF88?si=dATU1-32OQI9GBz6

This was my first time scoring to picture. It was a good challenge, i really enjoyed it! 
Hope you like it!

The Composer's Journey (Orchestral Tools Scoring Competition using only Berlin Free Orchestra)

After the lament and the full reckoning with horror of No.5, 6 and 7, this section totally changes the mood. It gives way to a profound solitude. It is voiced by a solitary piano, playing a simple four-part prelude— distant from present events, distant from our time. Its sound harks back to the Baroque era, as if echoing from a world long past.

Pandemic Suite – 08. Preludium

Track made exclusively with Crowhill company's Pocket Strings Library as per the challenge. 

No additional effects or plugin used
Made in a *very* short time ;D and had a lot of fun doing so! First go at a 'scary' vibe.

Pocket String is an affordable, very well built little jewel. It is highly customizable, from cinematic sound to gritty sound design.

Daemonic Whispers

Daemonic Whispers - Crow Hill Company's Pocket Strings Composing Challenge

Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written in 1846 it was Verdi's tenth opera and also the first of Shakespeare's plays which he adapted for the operatic stage.

In Act II Macbeth has murdered King Duncan and become king, but plots the murder of Banco and his son Fleance to thwart the prophecy that Banco’s children will rule Scotland. As the assassins lie in wait for Banco outside the castle, Banco sings his recitative and aria “Studia il passo  -Come dal ciel precipita” (Watch your step - How from the heaven falls), in which he warns his son about his feeling of foreboding. The aria’s noble, rich unfolding comes to an impassioned peak just before the coda, when the assassins strike him down but fail to halt his escaping son.

The aria was written for basso profondo (here transcribed for baritone). My attempt had me step out of my comfort zone, both in expression and in range. The piano as always was brilliantly played by Helen Roberts.
I hope you'll enjoy our performance.

Lyrics

Studia il passo, o mio figlio...
Usciam da queste tenèbre...
Un senso ignoto
Nascer mi sento in petto,
Pien di tristo presagio e di sospetto.

Come dal ciel precipita
L'ombra più sempre oscura!
In notte ugual trafissero
Duncano, il mio signor.
Mille affannose immagini
M'annunciano sventura,
E il mio pensiero ingombrano
Di larve e di terror.

English:

Be careful how you go, o my son...
Let’s go out from this darkness...
I feel something unknown
Growing in my heart,
Fraught with sad premonition and suspicion.

How the shade falls from heaven
More and more obscure !
On such another night as this
They stabbed to death Duncan, my lord.
A thousand nightmares
Are foretelling me misfortune,
And are oppressing my mind
With ghosts and dread.

Come dal ciel precipita (Macbeth - Giuseppe Verdi - with Helen Roberts)

underwater basket weavers strike

Crow Hill Company's Bridge Guitar Composing Challenge 
Prompt: Compose 30 – 60 seconds of ‘daytime/reality TV underscore’ using only Bridge Guitar from their free instruments

Video link : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMt0ZBYtbM2/?igsh=MXQ0bWt6MHFqdzhxbQ==

Honestly composing using only plucks and a single instrument for another style completely was though. I had in mind the Intro title-sequence of a regular daily tv-serie. 

Feel free to tell me what you think about it :) this isn't an elaborate work, mostly just for fun.

Le Petit Pont

Le Petit Pont - Crow Hill Company's Bridge Guitar Composing Challenge

Heliosphere Trip (2025)

Mac , music , lyrics ,vocals
Scotty , lyrics and vocals
Shane , lyrics and vocals

Jimmy really should have learned how to drive 
But he thought he was the last of the lads alive
He never knew his signals or emergency stops
Took a blind side right with his headlights off
And that was the end of that 
But there’s always some daft twat
Who dabbles in disaster for a silly laugh
Perhaps it’s apt 
But Christ it’s proper sad
He was probably an arsehole but someone’s little lad
And it makes em mad in the daily mail
When every little jimmy fails
“They should be building bigger jails , these criminals shall not prevail”
Fuck off Doris ,I’ve got news for you 
You can climb down off that high horse
Cos it ain’t fit for glue

Those with glass minds throwing rocks tonight
Knowing that they never lived a day in their lives

Well, Linda sits upon her porch 
with cigarettes and beer,
waitin' for her cheque and askin'
the mailman each time he's near.
She lives with other women,
who are very much the same.
Seven babies from eight daddies.
Makin' them is just a game
for them to live in ignorance,
sit and do nothing, 
but complain about the immigrants 
that make them quite insane,
even though they're working difficult, shit jobs 
that they're too proud to do.
Entitlement based on their skin
colour and where it was they grew.

There’s two sides to a coin
When judgement calls
Those opinions are the shovel that will bury us all
And that’s all 
X

Fit for glue

Diagonal da sala -10-8-2025

Just because.
My sincere thanks to David Dunham for his generosity in mastering my track. @david-dunhamuser589535203

Rather Strange

Voyage of the Snowflake ( free download  mp3 )

11 It Is

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