Nice tracks, I liked the instruments you used. I felt like it could use more tension/release moments to really put forward the motifs you used.
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Yeah, I really liked the instrumentation in Movement 1; Ira made human-like dynamics out of a pretty linear MIDI. I also liked the one timbre that's basically just doubling stuff in Movement 2, but it's that chorus-y piano just to add some TeXTUrE.
Your tension/release idea made me look at Apocalypse in 9/8. I think its tension/release comes from the polyrhythms realigning every few measures, and the bass constantly being on B. The bass made me analyze a lot of the harmony as just being relative to Dominant, like v7/v and VII/v. Might try it some other time to see if it's what you meant.