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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Composing Quality | #2 | 4.368 | 4.368 |
| Listenability | #16 | 3.842 | 3.842 |
| Execution | #16 | 3.789 | 3.789 |
| Overall Uniqueness/Creativity | #17 | 3.632 | 3.632 |
| Overall | #27 | 3.588 | 3.588 |
| Correlation to Theme | #51 | 2.842 | 2.842 |
| Sense of Atmosphere | #55 | 3.053 | 3.053 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Description
This piece is inspired by Joe Hisaishi's work. It isn't that ambient, but to me it captures the feeling of finding something beautiful that was lost to time. I recommend wearing headphones for the best listening experience.
Also I didn't use a DAW so I don't have any screenshots of that.
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Feels a sort of Mononoke Hime/Spirited Away meets Kiki's delivery service from the intro crescendo to the Town with a view inspired second section.
This is exactly the type of orchestration i really like, especially liked the trills in the woodwinds at the end of the intro cresc, added a lot to the feel.
Stellar stuff!
Wow, you somehow guessed EXACTLY what I was going for!
The use of notation software is acceptable. :)
Overall, I think notation software is good for concepting, but it's not going to take it to that next level of polish. A midi controller goes a really long ways in making humanized, realistic, expressive dynamics. It's very hard to artificially create the dynamics that come out of you when you're in the mode of experiencing the spirit of the music.
In fact, in a lot of my tracks, sometimes my first take is the best take, and I can't even recapture the magic of the first take, somehow.
So, imagine how hard it is to get that vibe check clicking dynamics in! I definitely recommend a midi controller to any aspiring composers - a weighted full keyboard is best and is what I use. It's not a super expensive top of the line one either - just enough to play notes and make music.
This is a nice composition, great work! :)
Do you have any specific midi controllers you would recommend? I was looking for one a while ago but I never actually went through with getting one.
Don't have a recommendation for one, but just hopping in to give a warning to get a proper MIDI Keyboard, not a Digital Piano if all you're going to use it for is working with VST sounds and don't really need the built-in sounds and speakers.
I purchased a Digital Piano instead of an actual MIDI Keyboard since i wasn't even thinking about writing music/composing when i was buying a piano just for learning to play, and I've wished i bought a midi keyboard instead ever since i started composing 😅
Just for example, my Digital Piano is a Yamaha-NP45 and i found after starting to use VST sounds that the piano has some issues with how it sends midi velocity data, leading to it being hard to play high dynamics on it via midi. I think some other digital pianos suffer from similar issues too, since they are first and foremost made for playing the built in sounds and not used as a midi controller.
The extra slider/faders, knobs, pith and mod wheels and other buttons found on proper midi controllers are also really handy to have if you want to actually play the midi data in.
I went the really stupid route of buying a small 25key midi controller (Novation Launchkey 25mk2) so i had a pitch and modulation wheels, but then wanted actual faders to play in control data for stuff like sampled orchestral sounds so i bought a small midi controller that has just faders and knobs (Korg Nanokontrol 2). I could've just initially saved up some more and bought a good 88 key midi controller that had all of those included in the one keyboard.
Sorry for the rambling, but I don't want anyone else to make the same mistakes I've done 😂
It was wonderful to hear a fully orchestrated piece as a submission for this jam. This piece seems to pay homage to Hisaishi's work in a way that feels inspired more-so than copied, so props to you for that!
While following your score, I noticed a great usage of dynamics in each of the instruments that really adds depth and expressiveness for each of the instruments that I don't always see from people that submit their work straight from music notation software. This is great to see!
The main critique that I have is that, on a couple occasions, the piano seems to play a significant amount of notes in a way that would be very difficult for a live pianist to perform (mostly occurring at the end of the 6/4 section). Not that that's necessarily your goal, but in my opinion the idea of "less is more" in those measures could help add some clarity to this section. Especially considering that you appear to be doubling the piano's left hand with one of the bass stringed parts - having it doubled with another of that instrument instead of with the piano could help free up both hands of the pianist instead of relying on just one to play that part in higher register. Hopefully that makes sense.
Thanks a ton for sharing, and keep up the good work :)
Nice works, its a good composition, since you didn't use a DAW thats probably why some sounds in the mix are not quite well placed in the mix and could've been more forward especially the piano, if you can find a way to extract the audio part of each instruments and mix it somewhere else I think it will enhance the quality by alot.
Unfortunately - I'm not a big fan of conventional orchestral music and for that reason I don't know how to rate it at all....
...but from my philistine point of view (and also from the point of view of my ears) - it was very fabulous! Good melody, a little epic in the middle and atmospheric piano!
Cool job :>
Rawr
I can really hear the Joe Hisaishi influence in this piece—amazing job! It’s very emotional and fits the title perfectly compositionally.
Very good progression, like it a lot. I think it is beautiful orchestration and I can totally see it as an opening title.
You did a great job!
It's very nice