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A jam submission

Whiskers Between Worlds — Impressions Composing Jam: Imagination #2View project page

Submitted by simishcj — 1 day, 7 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#43.9743.974
Overall Uniqueness/Creativity (double field for weight)#53.7313.731
Correlation to Theme#54.0384.038
Overall Uniqueness/Creativity#64.0774.077
Listenability#74.0774.077
Execution#84.0004.000
Composing Quality#93.9233.923

Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Link to Streaming Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdXQi4IzHnE

Description
For this music jam, I embraced the theme of "The Far Reaches" by telling the story of a spirit cat descending from its ethereal realm to experience a single day of earthly simplicity and joy. The three ambient tracks, Paws at Dawn, Steps Between Stone, and Moments to Midnight, reflect the cat's gentle, playful, and poignant journey, with each song capturing a specific time of day and its emotions.

Screenshot of DAW (required, but it can be uploaded shortly afterwards)
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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Love the story behind this! I like the use of traditional instruments mixed with modern sounds as well!

HostSubmitted (1 edit) (+1)

Great ambience immediately. I love the build up. Meow?!

Ooh, lovely drop down. This is excellent thus far.

I think some of the instruments sound a little midi (mostly the plucked instrument for the ostinato).

But damn this one really kicks ass, not gonna lie.

I also think some of the mix is a little thirsty for a bit more reverb, and it somehow still feels a little crunched to my ears. That said, this isn't like a serious issue, just a polish issue on a really, really fantastic track.

I think what would be a fun collab for me would be to just improvise some more on top of the chord progressions you made, perhaps with my real plucked instruments. :P

Absolutely fantastic work. Thank you for submitting, I'm really happy you joined this.

Submitted(+1)

Seems like you have a knack for getting a great mood/ambience in your tracks.

Those faint pad like marimba? tremolos swaying from side to side in the back of the last track were great, really cool effect.

A lot of repetition on the tracks themselves, but that in a way gives them that meditative feeling.

Great stuff!

Submitted(+1)

Beautyfull, so aesthetic. Mastered mix to my eyes. 

Submitted(+1)

Full marks

Submitted(+1)

Flutes, kotos, guqins (I really don't know what they all are) are being turned into percussive, textural sounds and it's so cool to hear.   You're folding, weaving and stretching them into something non-traditional and the effect is unlike anything I've heard before.  And it works so well.  This was so great to listen to.  This work is so rhythmic, despite only featuring minimal percussive instruments.  You're turning melodic instruments into rhythmic ones and it's amazing.  One of my top favorite submissions that gets better each time I listen to it. 

Submitted(+1)

I love that you worked on weaving this story into your submission and I loved the instrumentation that you used. Some of those instruments aren't super easy to work with in a DAW  but you made them sound super beautiful. These are all great submissions! 

Submitted(+1)

I've come across a lot of ambient submissions in this jam, I think this is my favorite, btw the art is beautiful

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much! I was so worried about not finishing the cover art in time 💀

Submitted(+1)

Really great pieces here. Good work.

Submitted(+1)

the playful "meow" right at the start is such a nice little addition. overall great entry!