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Fairly experienced guitarist and pianist here. No that does not sound good. It sounds less than bad but not good.

Great technical review. I appreciate the insight and thoroughness from someone who obviously knows their craft extremely well. The nuance in which you broke down how "[i]t sounds less than bad" left me incredulous, and then you completely rendered any type of retort useless by affirming that it was "... not good". There's just no countering that.

Spot on. I will never trust a musical review on fractal musical composition by anyone other than fairly experienced guitarists and/or pianists ever again.

My review was spot on. It’s subjectively not terrible but you wouldn’t use it as the basis of a composition.

Perhaps a school bell. But it would get annoying as fuck very quickly. Actually perhaps sticking it on repeat in a torture cell would be a good place for it. It’s not bad enough or good enough to be likeable.

Would it be possible to share one of your own compositions/performances for comparison?

>"Would it be possible to share one of your own compositions"

One does not have to be composer to judge music. Also it is very subjective. In my opinion the piece is a short phrase that does not cause immediate allergic reaction. But it is not a composition.

Some math translated to notes and producing reasonable harmony is not really that exciting imo.

It's not a piece, nor does the link at any point claim to be anything at all beyond a cool sound.

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