Start of Pixelated Stars reminded a bit of pokemon's lavender town. I like the plucky melodies, good use of counterpoint and tape echoes. Felt the square bass was much too loud.
The electric guitar power chords gave Voxelated Labyrinth some nice intensity. Bass drum was a bit too loud and overpowers the leads/arps.
Saw's a bit overpowering on Low-Poly Monster IMO. 3/4 time sig provides the song with a bit of a waltz-like vibe.
Well composed song with powerful moments at 0:46 and 1:20 (that section following 1:20 was quite triumphant). The swells worked well to build up to aforementioned moments. IMO the white noise and folly sounds in the first section distracted from the piano melody.
Creates a calm ambience with the pads, piano, and bass (honestly not sure it really needed the snare part). Loops smoothly. Felt the piano's volume could've been brought up a little.
This is a submission for "Composer Weekend Jam #13" wherein participants were tasked with producing a song to match a visual aesthetic.
The jam page linked a wiki with a list of aesthetics and I decided to select "Random Article" with the intention of taking inspiration from the first entry that popped up. I wound up with "OtoMAD", which is a visual style which originated in online Japanese meme videos. The page suggests electronic music genres, such as EDM and Eurobeat, would be appropriate for the OtoMAD aesthetic.
Really fun composition, honestly put me in mind of Halo CE. Plucky bass and melody worked well and the midi guitar with the bell . I like the wind counter melody at 0:15. Drill sound was a nice effect. Felt the guitar could've been layered with either brass or strings to make the guitar phrases a little more lush.
Really cool moody rhythmic percussion piece. The timpani immediately creates a sense of scale (though it was panned a bit too far to the left for my taste). The snare/bells create a nice higher pitched contrast. I noticed that the instrumentation was primarily high and low pitches, not much in the middle.
There's a soft bit of buzzing in the background, probably your mic picking up background noise. 2:02 feels a bit awkward, you kind of lose the tempo momentarily (honestly, could've just held out the note at the end of the phrase for a moment before resuming). That said, this piece has an interesting composition with solid rhythm, pleasant melodies. I like the transition at 2:45 and the key change at 3:32. I like the recurring motiff.
Choirs would benefit from some crescendo/decrescendo... maybe break up that long held-out note by the men's choir a bit, let them re-attack the note. Love the bass line (very Halo-esque) and mallet melody. Nice punchy drums.
Really fun composition. I could see this fitting a fast-paced action game (guitar riff at 0:20 straight-up put me in mind of Twisted Metal). The lead that comes in at 1:03 is much louder than the rest of the mix.
Double jamming with this one. So I noticed that the "Composer Weekend Jam #5" and "Weekly Note Composing Jam #37" jams were running concurrently, so I decided to make a song that could be submitted to both.
"Composer Weekend Jam #5" had the stipulation that the song must contain a live-recorded element, so I performed the guitar parts.
"Weekly Note Composing Jam #37" had as its theme "Scrapyard Symphony", so I decided to make a moody dramatic rock song that would suite a junkyard setting.
Beautiful guitar melody and counterpoint. Felt the dynamics on the horn at the end could've been shaped a bit more... on the whole notes it feels like it should crescendo to the halfway mark and then decrescendo IMO. Well mixed, peaceful tune that fits the theme well.
Got a bit of a FTL vibe at the beginning with the mallets and pad. Bass has a nice warm tone. I like the transition at 1:30. Pleasant, well-mixed tune that fits the theme well.
Sound crackled at some of the louder parts on the mp3. Song would suite a classic sci-fi adventure well. Very dynamic piece and the instrumentation strongly conveys the sci-fi vibes. Tasteful use of phaser and I like the chimes. The section at 0:47 builds some really cool tension--Darth Vader's lurking!
Uptempo with a high sense of energy. Percussion part is really cool and I like the panning on it. Felt it would've benefited from a bass riff and maybe a legato part to provide some free motion motion. You've got the bones of a cool song here.
Interesting composition, gives off a strange vibe (in a good way) and the guitars are performed well. Felt the ride cymbal could've been brought down a little, let the guitars stand out more. The mix gets a little busy around 1:25 where the pad comes in.
Snare is loud and distracting tbh. Horn melody is lovely, ditto for the piano and bass parts. Crowd ambience works well with the lo-fi vibe. The conversation samples work well, though tbh after the line "If I could do one thing with my life, I want to sing" I was hoping for some singing (I mean, if a song's gonna' tease it, come on!)
Piano and bass are nice and work really well, very jazzy. That said, the snare stands out too much and tbh the shakers are a little loud compared to the rest of the mix as well.
Guitar melody is nice and the flute counterpoint works well. Tasteful use of reverb. Warm tone overall. Not sure the crescendo on the mallets around 1:58 was necessary... kinda' goes against the grain of this piece to go for a dramatic moment IMO.
Tubular bells and organ immediately set the spooky castle vibe, very large and powerful sound. I like the harpsichord melody and the choir. Honestly could suite an execution scene quite well.
