Impressions Composing Jam: Imagination #4
Intro
Welcome to Season 4 of the Impressions Jam Series! Kicking off this season is the fourth Imagination Composing Jam intended to push your creativity... by relaxing and having fun.
Unlike previous jams, I will instead be providing an audio track with sound effects and narration. The scene will have elements that are open to interpretation, where your job is to visualize the environment and write music to what you see. The aim of this exercise is to produce musical innovations that are unique to you.
This jam will run from Friday, February 27, 5 PM Central, to Sunday, March 15 , 9 pm Central. Voting Will end on Sunday, March 22, at 9 pm Central. See above for the times in your local time zone. Please read the Scope and Details sections carefully.
We'd love to have you in our Discord Community, where you can share your progress and get feedback! :)
Scope
For this jam, really focus on playing around with new tools and ideas. This jam is meant to be relaxed. Don't worry about being mind-blowingly unique; rather, I'd strongly emphasize having fun and playing around with tools, combinations, and musical ideas, and not pressuring yourself. Pressure makes the mind narrow on achieving a goal. There are no grand prizes for this jam other than the recognition.
Details
I will provide an audio track with sound effects and an audio recording describing the scene. It is your job to interpret the theme effectively, as if you are writing the soundtrack for a scene.
Submit a minimum of 1 minute of music, and a maximum of 8 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, or if you aren't using a DAW, use the system you provided.
Submit only original content.
***Do not use AI to produce any part your submission. Use of AI will result in an automatic disqualification.***
Theme: TBA
Theme: TBA
Write according the provided theme.
Rating Categories
Uniqueness - did you feel like what you heard was fairly unlike other things you've heard before?
Innovation - Similar to the above field, but not everything unique is innovative. This added field helps give extra weight to people who put their energy into creativity.
Composition - Is it well composed? 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.
Execution - Is it well mixed? Does everything sound well balanced? How is the stereo imaging, reverb, etc? How well is the music articulated? Are there good dynamics, good balance of rhythm, rubato, crescendo, etc.?
Correlation to Theme - How well does the composer use musical language to speak to the theme?
Submission Checklist
- 1 minute of music from a chosen project, uploaded to your project page, uploaded as an MP3, WAV, or similar. Submit as many tracks as you'd like.
- Screenshot of DAW.
- Link to a streaming service. (No longer strictly required, but strongly recommended.)
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.
