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Yes, there are a surprising number of Guy Shahar's.... This one's me facebook.com/guy500 (I'm in the UK). My LinkedIn is www.linkedin.com/in/guyshahar/ I don't use social media much, but these are a good way to connect in the first instance.

(the sharing of my pieces was in Facebook groups)

@@HeartfulMusic1 OK, thanks! The fb page seems mainly about your admirable professional autism work, though. I'm not sure if there is any further feedback on your Intuitive Composing project which I might be able to hook in to? I myself started composing purely by chance -- I suddenly remembered at age 35 that I had told a university friend I would write a symphony by the age of 35 and realised I'd better get a move on. At this time, the earliest sequencing and notation software was on the go but library playback was still pretty basic -- as was the symphony. But it was fun and soon became a hobby. In general, before starting a new work I have some sort of concept of what it should be about and in some cases what areas I want develop in technically but after I get going, the music tend to more or less write itself. This is particularly the case with vocal/choral works as the text determines everything. My recent The Little Mermaid which I regard as my most characteristic and possibly best work is a typical example. It would be interesting to know how you get your initial ideas. Do you play something out on the keyboard or is everything in your head? My biggest problem is getting started -- once that happens then the work usually takes off on its own. Because of this, the opening is quite often the weakest part of a work, unfortunately.

@@davidowen9308 There's a page where you can hear more of my tracks (although there's not many of them as I just started in July...) - heartfulhealing.co.uk/music. I think my next video is going to be about Composers' Block. I find the same as you - that once I get going, it takes care of itself. Ideas are not necessary as they come once I get started - I can see how they might be helpful as a way of getting you to the keyboard. Generally, though, whenever I start with an idea, it gets twisted into something totally different from what I imagined almost straight away. Yes, when I get there, I generally hammer out something almost random, and eventually something will come up that sounds nice that I use as a starting point - similar to you. If you find that the start of your pieces are the weakest, then you can just skip the beginning and use something from a few seconds in as the starting point? I'd love to hear your symphony, if you completed it (especially if you did it by 35!!). I think this is you?? - play.reelcrafter.com/dko22/chamberworks - there's a lot of interesting soundning stuff here, and I look forward to listening to it!!

@@HeartfulMusic1 yes, all my stuff of any sort of significance in on Reelcrafter under one of the four sections (links to all at the bottom of each). My first symphony isn't there as the first movement is little more than a free improvisation and the other movements are quite weak as well (though the scherzo is not bad for a first attempt). Still, I wrote the second almost straight afterwards and you can hear that on Reelcrafter! Unfortunately it's not the actual opening that the problem but the first theme is general (though there are exceptions (so there'd be a lot of rewriting to do). I'm probably too impatient to get started but when I get into a piece, the ideas tend to flow quite spontaneously from what went before. Anyway, Composers' Block sounds like a good theme.

Thank you!!