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Hey pixcele,

thank you for setting up this Jam. It was really nice to hear all the other submissions and get some feedback on my track as well.

Overall I really liked your track. I have one comment on production and one loosely related memory that came up when I heard your track:

I find the difference in space the background drone and the piano in the very beginning occupy a little bit irritating. The drone feels very spacious and the piano feels very brittle and claustrophobic. I guess there are cases where such illogical acoustic spaces can work but here I think I would have preferred it if both parts would have felt a little bit more „in the same space“.

Your (reversed) poetry reminded me of a track I did with a friend a long time ago. We reversed some spoken sentences, memorized how they sounded and recorded us saying them „in reverse“. We once more reversed that and got some really striking otherworldly but understandable spoken passages. It’s a really fun trick we stole from the TV series Twin Peaks. If you never tried that before I recommend giving it a shot if you need some really unsettling voice lines some day.

Super nice tune. I actually get some Breath of the Wild vibes from some of the harmonies. I think a lot of memorable stuff in that soundtrack is based on stacking 5ths. I tried to play along to some parts in your track and I think that there is also some emphasis on stacking 5ths at least in a few places? Was this a deliberate choice or was it just happening by playing around? In any case I really liked it :)

Thumbs up for going for something a little bit more experimental. I am quite a bit into drone/noise music so I think it is really cool to have it represented in this jam.

What I look for the most in this type of music is a unified aesthetic when it comes to the sounds used/produced. For my taste, the track lacks a little in regards to this cohesion. When listening I do not get a clear picture in my head of where the track is supposed to take me. With regards to production I would argue that there could be some more low-end rumble in the louder parts to give them some more weight. Apart from that, I really like it.

I liked the atmosphere of the track very much but also agree that maybe adding some bass instrument or low octave keys would fill some empty low-end space. Also just adding some simple low frequency material e.g. half way through the track can help to give a sense of forward motion to the piece. Also (at least on YouTube) the overall volume seems to be quite low. Apart from that I really think the track fits the chosen category nicely.

The result sounds great. I will have to try that myself sometime :)

This is super good. Great composition and production. I just checked your DAW screenshot. Did you really layer 3 pianos for the main piano sound (not a Nuendo user)?

Thank you very much for your feedback :)

I agree that the track is a bit more on the repetitive side. I tried to counteract this by throwing in new ideas every 4-8 measures and mixing even and odd numbers of repetitions for melodic themes etc. For my taste, especially due to its short length it still works fine as an unintrusive background/soundtrack piece, but that of course is a matter of personal taste :)

Thank you :)

Hello everyone,

I get that the rules for this jam are quite loose but I still have a general question:

Do you make your track(s) loopable for this one?

I never played Minecraft myself but I probably listened to the soundtrack (especially the two initial C418 ones) for at least a few hundred hours. I just now watched some footage of people playing the game and from what I have seen I think the songs are just fading in and out so I would opt for "not loopable" similar to the OST versions. Since I have no experience in playing this game I just wanted to get some feedback on that to be sure.