Impressions Composing Jam:
Ambience #2
Intro
Welcome to the Second Impressions Ambience Jam! The focus of this jam is to develop one's ability to create a clean sounding mix that creates an atmosphere appropriate to the given theme. If possible for this jam, include plugins and instruments you used, and describe how you set them up so that people can critique and help you improve your mix. This is not a requirement, nor a voting category, but is something very much in the spirit of the jam.
This jam will run from Friday, January 17, 7 PM Central, to Sunday, January 26, 8 pm Central. Voting Will end on February 2, 2025 at 8 pm Central. See above for the times in your local time zone.
Details
Compose in any genre you'd like.
The voting period will be one week, unless more time is needed for unforeseen circumstances. There will be no extension on the time you have to compose the music.
Submit a minimum of 2 minutes of music.
Don't use music from jams that ended before this jam begins. You may use music that you compose for jams that run concurrently with and/or end before this jam.
Submit one or more tracks.
Attach a screenshot of your DAW.
Submit only original content.
***Do not use AI to produce any part your submission.***
Theme: TBA
It is your job to flesh out more details about the various themes and parts of the game that match the theme, since this is a soundtrack jam.
Rating Categories
Sense of Atmosphere - Does it create a sense of mood and place? Is the music in the background enough as to not be distracting?
Execution - Is it well mixed? Does everything sound well balanced? How is the stereo imaging, reverb, etc? How well is the music articulated? Are there good dynamics, good balance of rhythm, rubato, crescendo, etc.?
Composing Quality - Is it well composed, despite perhaps being mixed in a mediocre way? Please keep in mind that complexity does not innately make a composition better, and sometimes makes compositions too busy.
Listenability - This is the "sanity check" of music. Music can be intriguing, unique, or interesting, but you just don't want that sound in your ears anymore for some reason you can't quite place, and you know it isn't just that the genre is outside of your taste.
Correlation to Theme - How well does the composer use musical language to create an atmosphere that speaks to the theme? Was the track actually appropriate for ambience and atmosphere?
Overall Uniqueness/Creativity - did you feel like what you heard was fairly unlike other things you've heard before?
Submission Checklist
- 2 minutes of music from a chosen project, uploaded to your project page, uploaded as an MP3, WAV, or similar. Submit as many tracks as you'd like.
- Screenshot of DAW.
- Link to a streaming service.
If you are submitting close to the deadline, just worry about uploading your music to the project page. You can add in the streaming service later.
