MC6 Round 1 Results - Happy Plasma

 
"Happy Plasma"
(m6i-happ.zip)

by

Phil Pretzel
(Pretzel)


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

Judge: VanOlmen ,Erland

Reminds me of Kraftwerk... Quite original module. In some parts the melody doesn't change for a (too) long while, this is annoying. There are some real good rhythmic parts inside this module. Sorry for this VERY short comment but I just realised that the actual deadline is at Sun 10/8 00:00 GMT instead of Sun 10/8 24:00 GMT! I'm terrible sorry.

Judge: Hinrichs ,Tammo

In fact, I was HAPPy when the tune finally ended. It has some quite nice rhythmic sequences and good-sounding effects, but as soon as it comes to unavoidable things like harmonies and melodies, it shows that the composer doens't have any skills or experience with this at all, as all those notes sound so awfully wrong that it's a real pain to have to listen through the whole song. especially the end is only a pile of randomly typed notes without any sense or conjunction to each other.

Judge: Jonsson ,Agust

Sheesh. What drugs were you on when you err DID this thing? :P The intro was nice, but then the dope kicked in. Then some time later it morphed into a cheesy piano pop song and then the drug injection kicked in again. In short, a waste of time :P

Judge: Hu ,Kochun

This sounds like the result of a mentally retarded DJ sampling a music box, a Nintendo Gameboy, and three bars of a beginner's piano exercise, then having an epileptic seizure on the mixing table. Musically this thing is incoherent. I can't find anything good about this.

Judge: Lee ,Elliott

Dance-able, maybe. Tuning, off---lots of dissonnance. Volumes, unbalanced. Harmony, mixed. Percussion, pretty standard. Panning, good. Style, poppy, yet hip-hop, yet smooth, yet ...? It's hard to say what the intent of the song was because it begins with a "happy plasma" but then moves into a patchwork groove, then into happy piano bit. Then into something else. It ends with a wrecking-crew mish-mash. For appearances, it looks like you had several ideas and then tried to join all of them into a song. This is further evidenced by looking at the orders list: there is no real logical sequence, and many patterns are omitted. It would have been better to: 1) decide what the main theme of the song was before you started, 2) plan out generally what parts of the song should go where (slow/fast parts, quiet/loud parts, rock/house parts), 3) pick instruments appropriate to that, 4) then choose a title, 5) preview it before friends and get some real advice on it. If you spent maybe another week on it, it might have come together instead of sounding so rushed.