MC6 Round 1 Results - Further Down

 
"Further Down"
(m6i-down.zip)

by

Peter


This song competed in the intermediate division of Music Contest 6, where it ranked in block 8.

Judge: Lu ,Philip

Everything in the beginning isn't well balanced in terms of the audio spectrum. Too much low stuff, played for too long without a high balancer. Needs a melody, bad. The only sample that shows me any clue about a melody is that ?organ?. It's played too soft most of the piece. Instead of raising the volume on that sample, I usually add more notes, doubled up left and right, to form more harmony. It's lacking a ending, and that'll hurt a bit. Nice dark piece though, and good luck! :)

Judge: Tamburrino ,Bobby

Whoah, that piano sounds REALLY flat compared with the other samples in the song. Tune it up a little. It actually seems that you didn't tune any of your samples at all - you just wrote the notes. Almost all of your samples are out of tune with each other, and it's distracting to try to listen to the SONG when they're like this. I'm afraid I won't be able to give that many comments on the song itself, other than it seems like you had some good ideas covered up by poor tuning.

Judge: Shimamoto ,Kevin

This piece had a mediocre flow throughout, solos were somewhat Lacking. Sounds like there were a lot of ideas floating around , but there was NO substance. Everything just turned into a hodgepodge of mush after a while. Some of those solos just grated; seemed too OUT. It lacks coherence to a theme of some sort.

Judge: Latva-Mantila ,Vesa

Sounds pretty chaotic to me, but not in what I'd call a good way. A lot of it is due to discordant bass notes ringing on top of each, which adds a particularly unpleasant effect. To me it seems the whole piece is based on randomness and dissonance. So, I found myself listening to the ride cymbal. The author probably knows a thing or two about music theory, but there's a lot of room for improvement in tracking technique. There is actually a pretty good melody/harmony combination somewhere in there, but digging it out shouldn't be as hard. If I were the author, the first thing I would concentrate on is trying to achieve a more coherent, clearer sound.

Judge: Norilo ,Vesa

Bad sound, because you use the samples far from the range they were intended for. Generally directionless, weird solos with meaningless chord progressions. Beat is monothonic and gets on my nerves. I struggle to find some musical ideas in this one, and fail. If there are some, they are buried deeper than I care to dig. There are some strenghts, of course. Mixing is good and the sound is not something I hear every day. Can't give it too high a rating, though, because of the lack of musical content.

Judge: Fok ,Bernard

pretty nice quality of samples used all the channels are well balanced, except the bass sounded unclear at times. To put it nicely, the music was too spontaneous and improvising for the human ear. There are some music theory text on hornet, and learning some of the music theory is not only easy to learn but will improve your songs dramatically.