What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
Other
What is your favorite genre or style of music?
Jazz
Is music your main income source?
No - Not Yet
About Me (Must include at least one paragraph of biographical information about you as a composer) - blank or minimal answers on this line will cause your request to be rejected. Include a link to your website if you have one.
This minimum activity requirement stated above is a good thing, cause I precisely decided to subscribe here as an incentive to practise more and write music seriously, at last.
I began studying the piano early, and quickly turned to jazz. I also play drums. At age twenty I began an advanced training in jazz piano but finished the school with nothing but a nice diploma and no real personnal project. Though I was involved in some, all faded pretty quickly and I had not the will to seek others. Today I am aiming at a computer science degree, with the hope that I find a job that leaves me enough time to keep the music going.
I am extremely self-critical and unconfident, that's why music didn't work out for me and also explains why after all these years I have but a few bits of written music in my bag (not enough to call people and go "hey, wanna rehearse some of my tunes?"). Recently I've been reading about inspiration, how it doesn't come magically but with hard work, trials, patience, and being able to overcome inhibitions (the very hard spot to me).
I would certainly not call me a "composer", but I know music, I know theory, I can improvise and was actually considered a promising and gifted musician (still am, by the few ones who sometime hear me play). Promising, but too withdrawn and passive to really become a pro. This has got to change, anything worthy in life requires effort and strength as well as initial "talent". I hope subscribing onto this board can provide me with extra motivation to write pieces of any kind.
I have a few directions which I would really like to give shape to : jazz pieces that could form a coherent album with a modern, original sound (Rosenwinkel style, maybe? I really like his composing work overall), mixed with rewritten standards; also a 40-45 minute piece mixing metal, fusion and jazz sounds (influences : jazz + electronic sounds + Meshuggah, The Contortionnist, and some other "extreme metal" bands that bring bits of originality and subtlety to a genre much invaded by generic annoying bands); finally, as a connection between programming and music, I have a few friends who have plans writing a video game, so I could take care of the music (many influences here, from existing games to movie soundtracks, two arts that converge more and more).
I don't expect to have even one of these achievements done for next week obviously, but any progress I do, I won't fail to post it here for critique, since it's not meant to become a source of income.
