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Suddenly a Sound Was Heard

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This is part of my 16 trade album, Vintage Powered!

It features orchestral and bass elements, with IDM's hard-to-follow glitchiness. I like how it turned out, but I'm hoping other people like this style too :) I was unable to make it the full 3 minutes long like the rest of the album, but I think it's for the better that I didn't draw out some sections too much, haha.

You can get the entire album here:
https://zanzlanz.bandcamp.com/album/vintage-powered

Thanks for listening! :D

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I like the atmospheric arpeggios. The wet synths and Lo-fi effects were cool too. It has little sense of development before :30, and then launches into this minimalistic, distorted drop that doesn’t really reflect the mood of the first 30 seconds very well. And then 1:04 sounds like a completely different piece. You took some big risks here with the composition and sound design. I personally think that the instrumentation-related risks paid off, but the compositional risks did not. This piece has a lot of jarringly disparate sub-themes and rough transitions (1:04, 1:23, etc.), and most of the time the harmonic depth is not sufficient to keep me engaged. The mixing and mastering quality is solid, and you used a lot of creative effects here. It’s an amusing experimental piece, but doesn’t really appeal to any emotions, drama, or sense of danceability I may have. I understand the theme of radio sounds and strings popping in periodically (as if you’re turning the dial on a radio), but instead of serving to offer pleasing contrast, it comes across as being a detriment to the sense of coherence of the track. So...creative, yet compositionally lacking. I could see you doing a lot with some of these themes in a more flowy, longer piece, though. Keep at it, man. ;)

6.25/10

Zanzlanz responds:

Dude, thanks so much! What a well thought-out, very professional review of the audio. I need friends with this much detail in their feedback.

But you're absolutely right - I should have submitted something way more structured to NGAUC, as a proof of ability, instead of something completely experimental. ;)

Take care with the rest of the event!

Cool dude

Zanzlanz responds:

thank_you_cowpboy!!

edit: why_did_I_write_like_this_lol!

man how do you do it??!!

Zanzlanz responds:

Haha! I wish I knew for sure! ;D

I get lucky with an initial idea and tweak it for a few days until it's something I like. Two-thirds of the time I actually don't get lucky, but it's what I learn from the failures that makes it easier to create the next tracks. And sometimes I just have to be in the right mood to make music :)

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Score
4.11 / 5.00

Uploaded
Jun 12, 2016
12:39 PM EDT
Genre
Dance
File Info
Song
5.2 MB
2 min 49 sec
Software
  • FL Studio

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