As someone who loves minimalism and more ambient styles I was really excited to go into this piece! And Ithink that you rmain hook and ideas correlating to that match the style well, and I see how was inspired by the different artists you mentioned (c418 especially). I think one thing i would be careful of when approaching more minimalist music, is making sure you develop your ideas, since you mentioned C418 and specifically Alpha, I'd encourage you to listen to that and note how sometimes even if the melodic material is the same for an extended duration, the quality of the sound (shape/style of synth, instrumentation, volume) will have much more drastic changes to accommodate for that. Its probably one of the harder things to nail down in this style because the line between a relatively one note song and just developed enough to stay interesting is a very fine line, so this is in no way saying you did a bad job, just something i noticed! Well done.
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Thank you!
Yeah, the composition you hear now I got down about midway through the jam, and then struggled to take it further. Kept going back and forth with ideas, but didn't find something that stuck after the initial composition. And, yeah spot on. Felt that I got the hook I wanted, but still need to get some of that richness in to complement and round it off.
Indeed, just listened to Alpha a bit. So many little variations in melodies and keyshifts. Also, a lot of switching out one melody for another to keep it dynamic. Such beautiful work :)
I'm going to listen to it a bit more and take note of the shape/style changes of the sound, as you mentioned.
Thank you for listening, and really appreciate the feedback!