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Redline's Monthly Composing Challenge #8

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A jam submission

Glass MoonView project page

Submitted by Aurélien Castel — 14 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#14.2504.250
Overall#24.0944.094
Mixing#23.7503.750
Challenge#34.6254.625
Composition#43.7503.750

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

Link(s) to your submission
https://soundcloud.com/aurelien_castel/glass-moon

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Comments

TurismoMusicSubmitted294 days ago

Well-crafted structurally. All parts have something to offer, providing a pleasant listening experience as a whole. A very interesting piece!

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Crystal Mountain Raiders
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PerLonnSubmitted296 days ago

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!

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74
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SelkioneSubmitted296 days ago

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!

Submitted
Selkione 🎵 - The Ascension Path
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PAP3RG4MERSubmitted300 days ago

Nice song! I love the variation of time signatures and the synth you used in the section starting around 1:12.

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Weathering Heights (for RMCC #8)
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Nick SchuitemakerSubmitted301 days ago(+1)

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

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Nick's Monthly Composing Challenge
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Aurélien CastelDeveloper300 days ago

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.

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Nick SchuitemakerSubmitted300 days ago

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?

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Aurélien CastelDeveloper300 days ago

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.

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JofesSubmitted301 days ago

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.

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Chance Enchantment Enhancement Chant
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