Impressions Composing Jam: OST #4
Intro
Welcome to the final jam of Season 4 of the Impressions Jam Series! Ending Season 4 is the composing jam meant to bring together all of the skills you've developed in your composing journey, whether you're a novice or a professional.
This jam will run from Friday, October 23, 5 PM Central, to Sunday, November 22 , 9 pm Central. Voting Will end on Sunday, December 6, 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, I am giving you 30 days to produce a cohesive soundtrack. I will provide a cohesive theme.
The focus on this jam will be listenability and impression, the gut read categories. A good soundtrack has to sound good.
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 3 minutes of music, and a maximum of 20 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
To reiterate, rating categories this time will be focused on the overall impression.
Impression - How did this impact you just hearing it initially? Did it impress you, move your emotions?
Listenability - This is the "sanity check" of music. Maybe you were impressed by what you heard, but for some reason, you just don't enjoy it as much as you think you should, and you also feel that it's not just a matter of taste. Music can be intriguing, unique, or interesting, but you just don't want that sound in your ears anymore.
Composition - Is it well composed? Please keep in mind that complexity does not innately make a composition better, and sometimes makes compositions too busy.
Uniqueness - did you feel like what you heard was fairly unlike other things you've heard before?
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
- 4+ minutes 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.
