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Sleepless Dreamworld E.P. - FLAC - (For Impressions Compositions Mystery Jam #1)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Uniqueness | #8 | 4.244 | 4.375 |
| Execution | #21 | 3.517 | 3.625 |
| Overall | #32 | 3.311 | 3.413 |
| Composing Quality | #36 | 2.971 | 3.062 |
| Listenability | #37 | 2.850 | 2.938 |
| Correlation to Theme | #39 | 2.971 | 3.062 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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https://soundcloud.com/h_415/sets/sleepless-dreamworld-ep
Description
I tried.
Screenshot of DAW
It's in the project
Pick your mode!
Hard Mode!
Which Motif did you use?
Both
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Comments
I really dig this vibe, the sound design and production is really cool! The texture and ambience throughout is really interesting and I like it a lot!
This may be a bit nitpicky but sometimes the theme feels like it was thrown on. I think it's really cool that you sampled the direct motif but I think that as a result of it being sampled it sometimes sounds a bit disconnected
Anyways, I really like this, great work!
The disconnection is a side effect, it's perfectly normal if you saw that.
Pretty freeform and cool approach to the theme, nice to see that someone also thought of sampling the motif directly (though I didn't go through with it myself in the end).
The highlight for me was the Silky Wood track, it's a really sick vibe and sound selection, the wonkyness of the first track also made me smile, overall very interesting ambiances, good work!
Well, I did not exactly think of sampling it and twisting it, rather it was based on the fact I couldn't have done something with it other than sampling it.
And thanks for giving Silky Wood from a Spider's Dream some attention.
Coral Crystals has really been getting all the attention.
I'm happy that it made you smile and enjoy yourself.
I have a great admiration for the electronic tracks in general. This is a very ambitious and very unique submission! I like that you used the original motif files to sample into here, very interesting and the overall vibes give me some sort of digital corruption (like you put a dystopian virus on my computer vibes). Coral Crystals is definitely my favorite track.
Thanks for the kind words!
The thing about Coral Crystals was it was a track that was overdone in some ways, but that's the reason in my opinion that I don't find it to be a bad track. Wonky Gardens was really the track I did not find to be the greatest.
But I do see why you call it digital corruption, there is a lot of just abnormal noises in the mixes.
Compared to my other stuff the stereo imaging is a little on the low in my opinion, but still nice nonetheless.
I blame the chaos on the limited song length.
And besides that the sound design on this is still my A-game.
All the ambience here is really great, there's a lot of subtle harmonic changes and little textures that fade in and out that give each track a lot of character while never really being distracting. It's chaotic, but in a palatable way that feels like it would be very difficult to do. There were a few high-pitched frequencies in Coral Crystals and Raw Delta Space that sounded a bit uncomfortable in my headphones, but other than that everything sounded clean. Great work all around!
To be honest, what you said is really great feedback on an overall chaotic submission on my part.
I will admit I got a little obsessed with high frequency noises, and I over used it in some aspects, which might not be for everyone, I'd think repeated listens would definitely even that out.
Well its pretty experimental indeed, I did not intend the actual audio motif to be used at all and think someone would sample it its a pretty interesting idea gotta give points to originality for this. You chose hard mode but i'm not so sure where the loop is on any of the track if there is any. The mix is nice also very unique album, good job !
My goal was simple.
Submit something that could be "Video Game" music, even though this album is really really chaotic and a little insane.
The main reason for the motif sampling was due to me panicking about not being able to start a melody with it.
Although glad you enjoyed it!
And it you're looking for a loop point, answer is you probably won't find one, due to it being in nearly every crevice of the music.
I overused Ableton's Impulse for that. Used the samples for different sounds while still being the original sound.
Sampling and twisting the original motifs is a pretty clever and interesting idea, ngl
I'm not much of an expert when it comes to ambient works, but this was surprisingly easy to listen to :)
Good job!
Thanks for the feedback or opinion.
I was kind of stressed when I made this because like sure I've been making ambient and IDM "music" for like 2 years and counting, and like I remember joining before the theme came, and I saw motifs and me being a musician who never really learned music theory went into full stress, so the sampling and honestly overly sound designing the original motifs came from a matter of stress.
And beside that I never really could've made it fit into any of the compositions properly except for the last song, there I shoe-horned one in that led into the main part, I am a improviser in music fair and square.
and if you want similar music you can check out the stuff on my other alias Götuljósið (English: The Streetlight) but only if you want.
Then again, thanks for the opinion, I am honestly happy that this made someone enjoy themselves.