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Spring's Promise's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity/Originality | #5 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Execution | #19 | 3.154 | 3.154 |
| Composition | #22 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Overall | #22 | 3.077 | 3.077 |
| Descriptiveness of Theme | #26 | 2.615 | 2.615 |
| Listenability | #26 | 2.615 | 2.615 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Link to Streaming Service
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/springs-promise
Description
Just a nice upbeat-energy neoclassical jazz fusion thing with synth overtones.
Lessons Learned
Start earlier, for there may be other jams lurking!
Where did you source your cover art?
It's a direct inverse-color of the image prompt for the jam. And then left as a middle-third central skinny image, with a copy of the grey-blue color from the invert on either side of the painting's image
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Comments
Dude, well done here! Very upbeat for sure! And just as FoxHoyde said, I get that sitcom sound lol. Loved the use of the instruments and those weird sounds in there lol. Solid work here.
Despite being quite experimental it sounds amazing man!
I feel my whole kind of mission is to thought-provoke if I'm never making Taylor Swift money.
a) it feels better to combat like repetitive stuff
b) if i ever do break out all the way into nano influencer then having them all be Interesting is Quite a Cachet tee hee
That's kind of the struggle-bus-on-purpose strategy
Glad you gave it a listen.
Cheers!
--D
main website:
https://exedexes1.com/
Sounds experimental and quite progressive!
Glad you gave it a go!
Gave you an itch follow, if you like the thing(s) on my page(s), consider doing the same.
Cheers!
--D
main website:
https://exedexes1.com/
new vocal out! the 51st vocal track:
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/every-given-moment-chnospinci
Gotta say, your mix/arrangement is so bright and full. Big transparent sub bass and bass. Lovely leads that fill in the 5Khz+ regions nicely. The stereo imaging is perfect. The sounds you chose are super warm and analog sounding. Did you use a freaking Minimoog??? This sounds much louder and clearer than other entries without becoming obnoxious or imbalanced. I can imagine Keith Emerson playing this song in two takes, with the second one being an overdub. The overall feeling is playful and regal, a bit like a court jester.
The Roland FA-08 is pretty much a full concert-level professional synth cost me about $1,600 at the time in 2019, It's got built in sequencing and the full range of dial tweaking. Enough menus in there that it would take like ten years to exhaust it, or longer. I have been learning some of the undocumented things about it (which dwarf the thin little printed manual that came with it, Grok had to clue me into the fact that i could save about half the dial settings to the -song- slot and not have to save a different studio-set of 16 instruments, and even that took me until 2 months ago to find out that was true...that's just -one- story) after I export off the FA-08 Mixcraft 10.6 Pro Studio has another whole layer of control once the WAV and the midi are on the laptop.
As to getting lucky and being not murky : I make wrong headed moves like 60% the time lol, I juggle the day-job so what polish happens is either on accident or I got more time than I normally do.
Glad you had a fun time with it!
Gave you an itch follow, if you like the thing(s) on my page(s) consider doing the same.
Cheers!
--D
main website:
https://exedexes1.com/
very cool mix of genres here. I can hear Baroque, classical, early jazz, more contemporary jazz, "sitcom music" (like FoxHyode pointed out) and a nice amount of avantgarde-ism that remains coherent and intelligible. This is something that i unfortunately don't hear very often, nice work
If I could be said to partially have a mission statement of my work it's to deliver precisely this.
(working my day job whether i keep things on the rails goes up and down with my energy level, the top 3% is nearly B-level musician but the worse ones can be blah...)
Some cerebral stuff to counter the hip-hop and the rap and when techno or house gets too formulaic and repetitive.
Glad you gave it a go!
Gave you an itch follow, if you like the thing(s) on my page(s), consider doing the same. Cheers!
--D
main website:
https://exedexes1.com/
All right Doug, all your composition, I just realized there is one thing in common and its gonna sound funny, the chords et texture you are using most of the time sounds exactly like a sitcom interlude from any 90's-2000 show, don't know why it reminded me of those but its the perfect description I have XD.
"all my composition" is 473 pieces :)
how much non-Itch did you try
Anyway thanks for rating
--D
main website:
https://exedexes1.com/