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AIM: ZAZEN

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This is my piece "ZAZEN " for the Newgrounds art inspired music competition. Please enjoy :)


Here is the art piece that inspired this song: http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/gabriel-lvstrong/desert-environment

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AIM Judge Review
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Interesting piece.
First of all I want to say that the distortion on the instrument is really annoying to listen to. Distortion can be done very well, but in this case it was not satisfying to my ears. The mixing in this track is fairly decent, though there aren't too many elements to mix in the first place(that sounded rude, but it was actually a compliment XD). Bass could have been a bit more apparent as well.

The track has some realy interesting melodic elements. Really liked the part at 1:50. I felt like this track could have used a bit more variation. Kinda is the same thing over and over again at some points.

I want o emphasize again that there is too much fuzz/distortion in this track. To test, I pulled out my urbanista headphones which probably is the kind of headphones most people will listen to this track with. Was pretty much impossible to enjoy the track, and it really bothered my ears. So yea, I would cut down on the fuzz a bit, and I would also advice you to listen to your tracks with "normal" headplugs to hear how your track would sound like for most people.

Overall a decent track though. Little bit lacking in terms of elements, but reflected the spacey/dessert/ZEN theme from the art quite well.

Mixing: 4/5
Arrangement: 3/5
Sound Design: 3/5
Art Relevance: 5/5
Overall: 3.5/5

The panning and wah-wah was nice, but I feel the fuzz is a bit much. It's infecting everything :P

I also can hardly hear the bass for it. 1:06 felt like it should have been a big moment, but it just wasn't. It left me confused and wishing there was something more.

There's a lot of repetition here. It's by no means bad, and it does sort of remind me of a desert on something like Super Nintendo or ... Saturn or something. I can certainly tell you tried with the personal touches all over the synths and the effects. The fuzz just bothered me a bit, and the build up could have been more.. built.

Nice job otherwise!

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Score
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Uploaded
May 28, 2016
9:22 AM EDT
Genre
New Wave
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5 MB
3 min 41 sec
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