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What a cool track! The sound design of the cut scene made it easy for me to visualize the story. And then the battle music is epic and intense. I like how you mixed up the rhythms to make the 8 count go from a straight rhythm to feeling like a 3+3+2, and then smoothly switched between that and other combinations of 3s and 2s to give us some odd time signatures that felt so seamless I didn't catch it on first listening. The odd rhythms give the feeling of keeping you on your toes without sticking out.

I love how you used the creepy minor third bell motif. In the beginning it feels diegetic and ambient, and then it's brought into the music. It made stacking the minor 3rds to get that Bb-G in the violin melody work to sound creepy without sticking out as too dissonant or out of place. All the melodies and harmonies worked together. The only tiny detail I could possibly nitpick is that my ears didn't like the high overtones riding along with one of the repeating 16th note bell sounds.

Awesome work!

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You have a great ear! Thank you so much for listening so closely (and it sounds like multiple times too). The time signatures were a fun challenge and mostly were made up of 5/4, 4/4, and 11/4 (really just alternating 6/4 and 5/4). I appreciate you noticing the minor third and how the G-E and Bb-G relate. This was one of the ways I was trying to make the Locrian sound stick - which it turns out is fairly challenging to make a diminished chord feel like the root chord. I really was trying to stay away from using a B natural, but I couldn't help it in one of my melodies... Oh well, I will surrender to the modal enforcers. :) Thank you for the feedback about the bell overtones. I layered a couple instruments for that effect and I'm wondering if the crotales were a little louder than they needed to be. Thank you so much for your comment and for listening so closely!