Impressions Composing Jam:

Ambience Jam #1

Intro

20 minute grace period!

Welcome to the first Impressions Composing Ambience Jam! The focus of this jam is to develop one's ability to create a clean sounding mix that creates an atmosphere appropriate to the given theme. If possible for this jam, include plugins and instruments you used, and describe how you set them up so that people can critique and help you improve your mix. This is not a requirement, nor a voting category, but is something very much in the spirit of the jam.

This jam will run from Thursday, September 12 to Sunday, September 22. See above for the times in your local time zone.

Details

Compose in any genre you'd like.

The voting period will be one week, unless more time is needed for unforeseen circumstances. There will be no extension on the time you have to compose the music.

Submit a minimum of 2 minutes of music.

Don't use music from jams that ended before this jam begins. You may use music that you compose for jams that run concurrently with and/or end before this jam.

Submit one or more tracks.

Attach a screenshot of your DAW.

Submit only original content.

***Do not use AI to produce your submission.***

Theme: Spirits in the North

Painting: The Incoming Mist, Charles Stuart 1895-1896

Theme: Spirits in the North

Compose to the picture theme, text theme, or both. I will not require you to specifically categorize which you pick - try to compose in a way that relates somehow to the image or the text. That said, creativity in interpretation is absolutely welcome, and how well your entry "Correlates to Theme" is up to the voters.

Rating Categories

Mixing Quality - Is it well mixed? Does everything sound well balanced? How is the stereo imaging, reverb, etc?

Correlation to Theme - How well does the composer use musical language to create an atmosphere that speaks to the theme? Was the track actually appropriate for ambience and atmosphere?

Overall Uniqueness - did you feel like what you heard was fairly unlike other things you've heard before?

Composing Quality - Is it well composed, despite perhaps being mixed in a mediocre way? Please keep in mind that complexity does not innately make a composition better, and sometimes makes compositions too busy.

Listenability - This is the "sanity check" of music. Music can be intriguing, unique, or interesting, but you just don't want that sound in your ears anymore for some reason you can't quite place, and you know it isn't just that the genre is outside of your taste.

Submission Checklist

2 minutes of material from a chosen project, uploaded to your project page, uploaded as MP3, WAV, or similar.
Screenshot of your DAW somewhere in either your project page or submission page.
Link to a streaming service, such as Spotify, Soundcloud, or YouTube.

If you are submitting close to the deadline, just worry about uploading your music to the project page. You can add in the streaming service later.