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Thank you so much Micerama!

Pokémon meets Stranger Things, just excellent! The 16-bit rate makes it feel like an authentic lost track from  past game and the sensation of dread and impending fate is on point.

Super!

Thank so much, Fox, it means a lot!

Without the sax it would be a little clunky, but just very slight. It’s both the glue and the lead keeping up all together. Solid!

I love how you unified more traditional strings with more peculiar instrument sound, it caught my attention! 

Great sound effects, too!

This passes with full green flags from me, wow!

When you mentioned the use of electric guitar, before pressing play, I expected something quite different from what I actually heard, and you surprised me in the most positive way. Many represent post-apocalyptic scenarios with the usual creepy, desolate drones and pads or even with heavier styles, while you found your unique and original style in that. Top! 👍

Interesting style,  you really did a fantastic job! The sound design is so immersive and with its elements completing each other flawlessly, the atmosphere feels really cold but somehow cozy

The whole soundscape here really makes me feel I'm in a snowy forest at night, while tending my ear to its mysterious sounds and feel the icy wind on my face.

Nothing else to say but: great job!

This is just monumental, you really took me through an amazing journey and I thank you for that! Very unique style and concept that certainly distinguish themselves among the entries

Oh, my, this is incredibly tense, if not almost horrorific in an old-style sense... and I love it! The story it narrates definitely materialised in front of me through the sheer textures and tones of the orchestra and I can immediately feel a great control of composition from you. Bravo!

It gives me a lot of Pink Floyd vibes, which definitely tickles my musical bone! It's also quite unique regarding that style among the other entries, and that is a plus. Great dreamy and immersive atmosphere!

Definitely one of the most original entries I've heard until now, the blend of exotic instruments is so interesting and the sound design is top notch in its subtleness. 

I feel The Unburied Coil could've benefitted from a more prominent electric guitar, but that's just a matter of taste from me. Fantastic work!

Thank you so much!

Despite being in hurry, the lack of bass was in fact a precise stylistic choice, so I'm glad that worked out :)

Unique, innovative, lush, emotional. All of this in just about one minute and a half. Top production and sound design.

I can’t ask for more, stupendous job!

I love how this could sound longing with no context on why it was made, but in context it conveys a sort of silent but restless desperation (especially underlined by the strings heard in the second part) and a feeling of being lost in the nowhere, frozen and remote, with no escape route. 

It takes its time to envelope you in and the results are marvellous. Top work, one of the best!

Very conceptual but at the same time incredibly understandable and composed so brilliantly!

Love how you used the clock sounds to represent someone stepping in the snow in the final part, and those spicy little dissonant chords are lovely. It almost feels like a Nintendo Switch game OST.

Great work!

Interesting and unique composition approach? Check.

Lush arrangement and production? Check.

Fantastic sound design and atmosphere? Check.

This is perfect!

With choice of going with piano solo you managed to underline a sense of isolation, longing and fragility, and it all feels so human indeed.

The minimalist approach doesn’t diminish the prettiness of the melodies, and despite you saying otherwise your playing works and brilliantly at that! Good sprinkling of some discordant harmonies here and there, too!

The only nitpick is that I would’ve charge it with some little depth FX in order to give it a minimal winter ambience and therefore more “weight”, but your composition skills make up for that. Splendid!

Thank you Kale, I’m really grateful of your appreciation!

Thank you so much for the feedback! This definitely makes me feel less skeptic of my own work!

While the instrument does sound “midi” like, as others already said this has all the ingredients to be developed in something wonderful, but I think it’s brilliant already in this form! Your composition skills definitely help in this, and if it sounds this good even with a half-baked attempt like you deem it, then I can’t imagine how better it would sounds with more polish. Great work

Funny, playful and epic at the same time! Great arrangement and composition, it really does feel like an old-school fantasy/fairytale game. I really, really enjoy this :) 

Nice to meet a fellow Sine Player buddy :) Good choice of sounds, you rendered them in a quite realistic way! 

This invokes a lot of melancholy and weariness, but also sweet hope, and I love it. The composition is so solid, and even though it isn’t exactly innovative it is certainly wonderful. Great effort!

Aww, thank you for the kind feedback, Einel! The fact it may sound like old PS2-like OST (or even PS1-like) unfortunately derives from pure necessity: I had to keep it minimalistic, even in sound design, because of the little time I had, so I’m not really satisfied with it. 

The Zelda comparison definitely warms my heart, though, and I thank you again for that :)

I’m so sorry you had too little time in making this, I understand how that feels like. 

What I may suggest is to use this as a starting demo to create something even greater, more detailed and more polished; I bet it would sound fantastic! I hear a lot of potential in the sound design and the atmosphere of this little OST, so yeah, I do believe you should develop it further even outside of this contest :)

Not bad at all for a beginner! :) It conveys the “arctic” feeling in a very good way and the microtonal dissonances between the instruments are quite bold. 
You could have made the ambience even stronger with the abstract wind and such, and maybe insert a pair of other instrumental parts to fill up the soundscape more, but it’s quite the nitpick considering you’re making your first steps in music-making. Keep up like this!

Thank you so much for the extensive feedback, I’ve never thought it could be compared to a snowstorm.

I think it’s not creepy enough to be a Silent Hill-like track, not that I’m complaining, haha! 

The glitches would be a great idea, maybe in the future I will rework it

Take all the time you need and you shall return stronger than before!

Thank you so much! I wish you good luck for the competition!

Very original and creative, Kale, wow! The drone definitely feels a refreshing element to hear in a composition like this and the centrality of the lyre really seals the great balance of the piece between innovation and ancestral feel. Love it!

This whole project just floored me. I’m at a loss for words about the overall way it sounds.

Some melodies may sound a little too eastern-like for the context but it’s a minor, almost insignificant nitpick of mine.

Gigantic work!

Your composition skills are evidently strong: the way you made the instrument groove is great and kudos for the odd signatures! I particularly love the bassoon and contrabass parts, they’re so realistic and playful. I’m less convinced on the other sounds exacty because they’re a little in contrast with the realism of those, but again, you show to be a great composer. 

The atmosphere is great as well but it doesn’t give me necessarily arctic vibes that much to be honest, so correlation to the theme might be the only real weak point of the project

Solid work, all considered :)

Oh my God, you were planning more tracks for the project?? You’re unstoppable exactly like the protagonist of your musical story, and that’s brilliant!

All of this it’s just breathtaking, the sound design of the environments, the atmosphere, the composition, the arrangement… everything. I can really feel the enormous care and passion you put into it and it’s wonderful. 

Bravo!

Wow, short but very interesting! I love the ever changing tonal centre, it expresses the perturbing and evolving emotions of the protagonist so well. The sound design is also so neat and quite original in the way it’s organised. Well done!

Great atmosphere you’ve created with the flying birds, Pablo! You managed to convey a sense both made of vitality and immersive peace that leaves in a wonder. The instruments sound also really “organic”.

However, I feel it gets a little repetitive even if it just clocks at 2 minutes and that it could have been expanded a little in various ways. Also, I think the correlation of bird migrations with the theme is not as strong as other projects, but there’s no contest in the way you managed to make it all cinematic though, so it’s still good!

Very good work! The sound design of the natural ambiance and the steps is great and it’s what really elevates your project. The composition is so solid and has a great sense for breath and width, and my favourite parts are surely the plucked instruments, which are honestly rendered so well in their dynamics and fidelity.

On the other hand, I feel the strings give away a little too much the fact they come from a software and land a little flat. But it’s honestly a minor nitpick

Thank you so much for the appreciation, especially considering that I’m not really satisfied with the track. Should’ve “woken up” earlier to cook up something more elaborate, but it is what it is at this point 🤷