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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #1 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Overall | #2 | 4.094 | 4.094 |
| Mixing | #2 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Challenge | #3 | 4.625 | 4.625 |
| Composition | #4 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Title
Glass moon
Description
The intro uses 10/8 bars (3+3+2+2).
The "A" section use a sequence of 8/8 | 10/8 | 8/8 | 11/8.
The "B" section use 10/8 bars.
The outro uses 7/8 | 9/8.
Plugins used
Modo bass
Ample guitar SC
Addictive drums
Surge synth
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https://soundcloud.com/aurelien_castel/glass-moon
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Comments
Well-crafted structurally. All parts have something to offer, providing a pleasant listening experience as a whole. A very interesting piece!
Love it!
The changing time time signatures combined with the instrumentation is awesome. The mix also sounds very clear and balanced. If anything maybe pan some of the instruments to get a more open and wider space might give something extra to the mix. As for the composition and the challenge, super good job!
Great groove work on the drums. Lots of interesting variations that make the music very organic. It almost sounds like live music.
Very good work, I had to hang on at times to count the beats!
Nice song! I love the variation of time signatures and the synth you used in the section starting around 1:12.
Very interesting! I love 10/8 (or 5/4, same thing really), so those parts feel really solid to me. As usual with weird time signatures, they may sound different to many people: I do think that the outro (from 1:50 onward) does not really sound like "7/8 | 9/8" but rather like 8/8, followed by up 6/8 (from 2:02 onward). Smooth transitions being time signatures though!
Overal, cool song, love how you tried many different things :D
The thing that makes 10/8 different from 5/4 is that the 10/8 is 3+3+2+2/8. In the same way 8/8 can be very different if the rhythms are accentueted as 4/4 or as 3+3+2/8. But still you can totally "hear" the pulse as 5/4 when listening to 10/8.
Also the funny thing with the 7/8 | 9/8 bar pair is that it adds up as 16/16 so it can be stacked on top of a 4/4 beat.
Thanks for the explanation! I know there is a lot of fuzz going around for the difference between e.g. 7/4 and 7/8 and whether there is a difference at all, but I get what you mean here. Although, I do wonder... if a part feels like 8/8 | 8/8, such as your 7/8 | 9/8 part, I doubt anyone will recognize it as a weird time signature - I just consider it an interesting division of a 8/8 time signature. Or, in other words, I would classify it as a 16/8 time signature, with a 7+9 rhythm. This is similar to how a 7/8 time signature can have a rhythm of 3+4; I would still say it is a 7/8 time signature, not an alternating 3/8 with 4/8! Or do you disagree?
The way we internalise a beat have a lot to do with the context of the music. Honestly its very rare that I hear 7/8 as a seven time bar (only if the pulse is slow, or if the harmony change every 7 beat or if a melodic cell that fill the bar entirely repeat for several bars). So actually I alomost always hear 7/8 as 3+2+2/8 or 2+3+2/8 ect... depending on the setting.
14 seconds before the deadline is WILD! also I respect the huge number of different time signatures used. I counted the 10/8 time as 5/4 while listening because 10/8 was too fast for my brain to keep up.