Impressions Composing Jam: Special Holiday Jam - Personal Project
Intro
Welcome to Impressions! We are a composing community hosting monthly composing/sound track jams. This is a special gift jam! Instead of following a theme, work on a personal project and improve on it, or, start a new project. There will be an optional theme announced for those who want something to compose to.
This jam will be considered unranked in our discord community. Voting and ranking will still be enabled on itch.io for feedback purposes.
This jam will run from Sunday, December 8, 8 PM Central, to Sunday, December 29, 8 pm Central. Voting Will end on January 4, 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.
Submit a minimum of 1 minute of music.
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
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
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.
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.?
Overall Uniqueness/Creativity - did you feel like what you heard was fairly unlike other things you've heard before?
Correlation to Project Description - How well does their music match their project description?
Submission Checklist
- 1 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.
