Great work on this! I'm impressed at how well the piece works both delicately and powerfully. Especially nice transitioning between the two using the motif (which I love). I like how it speeds up with the strings, it flows really well. I saw you used the word messy, I think we share that feeling with this kind of writing, but I wouldn't say it came out that way at all, it feels to me like it's telling a story. It actually reminded me of some of the cinematic music I used to listening from Alex Moukala, when I used to watch him a lot. Really sad I missed the chance to vote for this, awesome job on it, keep it up!
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No worries about the rating, I find insights like these to be the most valuable thing of all! Perhaps you're right, I tend to be a little harder on the tracks I make when I have to rush them through, then it turns out it really wasn't so bad. There's a lots of things I was going to do, a lot of polish, some sections that didn't come out exactly right (as I imagined it in my mind), etc, Just had to press submit though, hahah! It's the same for all of us. But I am happy I made it, now I can keep working on the track, and do all of those things I wanted to do.
Alex Moukala wasn't familiar at first, but I looked him up, and I have indeed seen and heard his stuff before, he's very good, so being compared to him is nice. :)
Also, congrats to your scores! It's a big shame you didn't hit the median ( me neither ;) ), your placement would've been way higher with your actual raw scores, but it's still good, it's well deserved!
Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, I find that what makes it into my own music can be a lot of chance under pressure, so I can certainly relate. Glad it seems you're happy with working through it and have a way to keep refining it. I find jams like these help in a lot of different ways for getting tracks out and whatnot. It looks like the next OST jam gives us an entire week, so I'm really excited for that in a couple of months. And thanks a lot for the kind words! While the rating's always nice, I'm also definitely with you on finding more value in the feedback and the like. I hope to see you around for the next jam :D