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its not that I don't want to - I just forgot! Apologies

This weekends jam theme is EXPLORATION. Not exploration in the musical experimentation kind of sense, but rather an audio loop or track that exemplifies the feeling of exploring a new area, world, or terrain. This can be anything from a spooky cave to riding a horse across the open plains. Whatever it is, let us know!

Hell yeah dude, this is awesome!! Love how you interpreted this!

This is just an audio jam! There's a whole discord of composers who join on and off for the jams I host as many times composers have a hard time getting involved on a team in full-game jams. 

Very pretty piece! I love the incorporation of crickets into it. Harp sounds beautiful and this piece really builds and develops nicely. The section around :42 came in exactly when I was feeling like we needed another section lol. Really loved your harp writing on this. Great work Maestro! 

Love your instrumentation. synth, theremin, electronic drums - someone after my own heart. The groove is really cool and old school but works so well. Especially with the horns. Honestly 10/10. Amazing work Maestro!

I really enjoyed this - though I would EQ some frequencies from that high guitar. It gets a little piercy at times. Love when the kit comes in. I would add a few pads to build it up a bit, but overall great job Maestro! (and sick solo!!)

Heck yeah!!! It reminds me of like, old school zelda music. That piano HITS when it comes in. I'd love to see this developed and extended. Great piece Maestro!

Harpsichord, theremin, and guitar... This track literally was made for me. Really enjoyed it. Productions great - only feedbackI have would be to try and get a real guitarist on this and maybe mix the drums to sound "bigger" around the 1:00 mark. That would go SO hard. But really, loved this. Great job Maestro!

Cool chords, and really love that synth line on top of them. A little pro tip - double check your mix volume when exporting. It's a little hard to hear, and honestly people do perceive "louder" as better - it just makes it sound more impressive/polished etc even if its just the same track a few dB higher. I've used that trick tons of times when trying to get things approved lol. Great work Maestro!

First off - anyone who knows when to use a sound effect to tell the story and to do it right wins. And you definitely did it great on this opening. I love how the music box is a framing device, but you have all this other awesome stuff going on and the music box actually isn't even the main thing once we get into it. The choir samples you used are actually phenomenal. I really enjoyed this one, phenomenal work Maestro!

How spoopy! I love the way you build the track. Not too slow, not to quick. Very spoopy and mysterious. Big beetlejuice vibes in the bassline at 1:00 so yo'd get my vote if I had one lol. Your orchestral sections could be a bit more balanced between them, but overall really great piece Maestro!

Nailed the title from the very first notes. Whimsical and fun! I'd love to hear the organ double the melody at some point, but other than that this was awesome. Especially when the full band came in, and I love the little background voices. Great piece Maestro!

I love the way the harmony builds slowly! Great work blending orchestral instruments with electronic processing/effects. When the synths come it at 30 seconds, HELL YEAH. I want to hear this one developed further and fleshed out into a full track, it's sick. Great work Maestro!

Ohh this one is DENSE. I love the way you played with textures and dissonance and really drew out the resolutions. The way you play with dynamics is chefs kiss. Great work Maestro!

Ohh yes! This is intended to be a guitar etude, but could definitely expand upon it to make it more of an ensemble piece

Oh this one is really cool! Very atmospheric!!

Really enjoyed the sonic palette you are working with here. The sound of flowing water works so well with the human voices and cello. I really love how this develops and builds through the progression of the piece. I really love the middle section in particular when it thins out and all the elements are scattered and more sparse. It would be interesting to see you find a way to stage this live since it's mostly acoustic instruments. Perhaps a table top waterfall?? 

I'm actually listening to this while looking out a rainy window in a coffee shop on a river and its SENDING me lol. Really great work man

Interesting use of bird! It really captures the essence of sitting by the river or in a park and just playing your instrument. Proof that ambiance is just as importantas melody or harmony when telling a story. Great work!

Very fun piece!!! I'd be very curious what it'd be like to "transform" this and slam it with some four on the floor drums and crank the intensity up to 11 lol

Loved this! The contrast between the beautiful pianotone and the harsher synth work really great,and the way they double eachother towards the end is phenomenal. Drums were a really nice surprise. Great work!!

This is sick!! Really love all the unexpected instrumentation from bells to brass. The groove change at :30 hits. Great work!

Appreciate it, thank you! I agree as well - the melodic synth is a bit too harsh and could definitely benefit from a little more filtering

When that drop happens at 2:20 - all I can say is "Hell yeah!" 

Love the way you play with timbre and tension. Super dark and ominous while still maintaining a driving quality. The delay throw at the end caught me off guard but was so cool. Great work!

This was beautiful and so atmospheric! I really love your arrangement/orchestrational choices. Great work!

I had the biggest grin on my face the second I heard those opening juicy synths. I really love the way you explore ambience through the reverb and decay of those more bell like synths and effects. It would be cool to hear a bit of a contrasting section where you can really highlight that ambience and capture that loneliness in the image more. But overall great job!

I love the way your incorporated the rain and the synths. It almost blurs the lines between sound effects and music where it becomes a sort of noise generator on the synth that opens and closes with the filter. This is a really cool idea I'm gonna have to play around with myself. Really love how the piece develops overall! Amazing work. 

WOW! Amazed that you played and produced all these - it definitely shows. There is so much character here and it adds so much to the track. Those little bites of dissonance?? Heck yeah!!

Ok I love this one - so much fun and so nostalgic. 

This was a really beautiful and ambient piece! Really love when the distorted synths come in and it opens up about halfway through. Very immersive and definitely captured the vibe of the photo. Great work!!

I'm gonna add a counterpoint to DSound on this one - he is right that a melody would help a lot - but I think this is really cool as a more textural based piece. My only comment is that I think it would benefit it to grow faster in it's arrangement and have a little more variation in the ostinato. This is a really interesting piece and it almost feels like being at a parade in front of a really awesome and unique marching band. Loved the textures overall. Great work!!

Love how it's simultaniously ambient yet dense. Feels like I'm driving through a big city late at night. Cool processing on some of those patches too!!

I may be showing my age a bit, but this one is a BOP. Love the groove and when it the full band comes in and it opens up, it HITS. So good!

This was so awesome and moody. It's like being on a beach or wandering in the desert with hot sun beating on you as you slowly lose your mind to heat exhaustion. Very cinematic. Awesome stuff!!

LOVED the bossa. Honestly my only comments are mix things - the snare is a bit aggressive and the melody is hard to hear. But everything else? Fantastic work!

You saw a challenge and you went for it! Awesome work man, it's definitely not easy to do such contrapuntal writing, especially in a weekend jam like this and you did a great job!! Even if it's not for the jam, consider developing this further, there's a lot of great stuff in it. 

Loved this. Very Shimmery intro! Guitar got me by surprise haha. The ending when all the elemts came together at the end was awesome

Music box + Strings is such an under rated combo! Loved when the ostinato came in - got pretty epic pretty fast! It'd be awesome if the ostinato or something came back after the piano to round it out. Otherwise, great work! 

oooh this was fun! Great melody. Love how you developed/played with through the course of the piece. I don't know what it is, but it really makes me want to eat BBQ haha. Great work!

Great musical storytelling! Especially loved the little mixtape sound effect in the beginning. Definitely nailed the lofi vibe!! Phenomenal work dude