ChioBam's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Earl Grey Teatime]

Right from the start, I knew that this would be an awesome piece. And let me tell you- I am so pleased. It's so delightfully frilly, in a Mozartean sort of way. While the story seems absolutely silly, I feel almost obligated to follow the progress of this, just so I can hear more of this. Beautiful work.
5/5

SoundChris responds:

Thanks for your kindness! Its hard to write a classical clarinet piece which is not inspired by Mozarts clarinet - concert. But the final project will also cover piano-tracks and even a cembalo-only-part. Hope you will like them, too :D
So thanks for leaving your thoughts here ChioBam!
All the Best,

Chris

[Movie Intro]

I'm not crazy about the chorus sound you're using, but I think it's cool how you're using it. This piece, though, is what I would call an onion. It's just a bunch of the same thing happening over and over but adding a lot more stuff- which is fine, but can sort of leave the listener hanging.

Finally at 1:45, we start a new onion! I really think this is a cool onion - much cooler than the original onion. I think the subtle implication of the choir and the slight change in its chord progression is cool.

One thing I have to say about the percussion, is it seems to sort of cancel out the sound of the rest of the instruments. I'm not sure if this is the effect you're going for, but I actually don't really like it a whole lot. The sound is just waving in and out because of the percussion.

This was a fun listen. Great stuff!

3.5/5

etK responds:

Thank you very much for your helpful review! =D Peace, thank you again to like my music!

[Madcap Magic]

Oh, man. This is so exciting. I think if you wrote this with just a bit more of a twisted dissonance about it, it would be the greatest theme song for a morbid circus. I'm really digging it.

4.5/5

C13b9b11 responds:

Morbid Circus makes me think of one thing: Morbid CLOWNS. Yikes.

[Finis Terrae]

Oh, man. What an atmosphere. I love it. The winds are doing some really cool stuff at around 1:00.
The droning tone that seems to be present throughout the whole thing is really cool. And the vocalization happening at 2:00 is lovely. How did you manage that? Is she from a sound bank? Or did you actually get somebody. Either way, it's very cool- it completely fits.

5/5

IglicaV responds:

I found this lovely voice in the sound bank, and I'm glad to hear that you think that it fits! What else can I say? Thank you for your feedback!

[Dreaming]

The atmosphere is definitely captivating. The idea of an 'electronic orchestral' piece is really interesting to me. I hope you don't mind if I draw a little influence from this in one of my pieces. Using 'synthetic' instruments in an orchestral setting sounds very interesting to me, and I'd like to give it a shot.

There's a lot of idea development, which I'm always happy to hear. I have a lot of trouble with it myself, so it's always refreshing to hear it done well.

I'm also very curious what sound banks you're using for your orchestral instruments- the percussion in particular sounds very nice.

You have a very nice onion effect happening as the song progresses. This is very cool. I'm curious why you dropped the electric sound that you started the piece off with, yet kept everything else as it was. It sort of throws away the whole electronic orchestra vibe, and becomes just a big ostinato on some really cool themes. It's still really cool, but I was really digging the electric sound. I also really like that you brought it back to conclude the piece.

I had a great time listening to this. 5/5 10/10.

lvidmar responds:

Thank you! The orchestral part of the song came from the preset sounds that come with Logic Pro 9. The drums were a brush kit that also came with Logic Pro. It's amazing what you can do with a few decent presets and some reverb. The "surreal" parts (beginning, end, and wind) came from Native instruments Absynth.

I dropped the electronic part because I wanted a slow takeover by the orchestra. It's structured as if someone was getting ready to go to sleep, had an adventurous dream, and then woke up peacefully but can't remember what it was about.
Woah, that sounds deep.
But of course, I don't mind if you draw influence from this. In fact, I'm honored that anyone would draw inspiration from my work. Let me know how it goes.

[Immaculate]

Interesting stuff. It's got this unusual consonance. The whole mood really implies dissonance, but there's not that much of it. I'm not sure how I feel about the percussive stuff around 1:40. It might be the sound bank you're using.
I do like what's happening at around 2:00 though. It has this captivating feel. Then you start hitting those clusters and the strange pitch modulation, which I'm really digging.

The ostinato bit is really, really cool. But then we come to the bit at about 4:20 which has a really active and whimsical feel. This is probably my favorite part. I really had a good time listening to this. 4.5/5 9/10. Awesome stuff, man.

Buttersnack responds:

Thanks for your reply! I wrote this a few months ago and I'm certainly always trying to improve the flow of my music. I also strive to make my music strange, so I'm glad that worked!

[In My Final Hours]

So at the very beginning I was hoping for something a bit different. You started with this really neat chromatic bit in twos. But then after you finished the second one you just went back to the first bit and kept doing it. This didn't excite me as much. I would consider going somewhere else with that chord progression before returning to it and moving onto the song. Make the intro something more interesting and less 'this is what this is going to sound like for pretty much the entire time.'

All the bits after that were really nice and very enjoyable. It had an almost folky medieval sound to me. Something more characteristic of renaissance or late medieval, with bits of modernistic melodic lines and chord use. It's a very cool piece of music.

Once you stepped away from the core chord progression you did a lot of extremely interesting stuff. I liked it. I have nothing to say against it. I enjoyed my listen.

ScrabbitTheRabbit responds:

I agree. It sounds like the piece is going to go to a more interesting place but then it's like "nope, I'm just gonna play the chords."

[Cinema Intro]

Really cool. It definitely does sound like that. Not much else to say. Really nice jingle. I'd be very okay with hearing this before a movie.

5/5

deadlyfishes responds:

Thanks! I thought it would be a nice little thing to add to the NG Audio Portal. You should check out my latest WIP, a big cinematic film cue: newgrounds.com/projects/audio/657702/preview

[Reminisce WIP]

It's cool, man. But, you really ought to switch up the chord progression a bit. I - vi - iii - vii gets a little old after a while. Otherwise I'm really digging the bits the left hand is doing. Work on ornamenting the left hand to make it more interesting, instead of just block chords. Get some dynamics going. This is promising, man.

3.5

Xsalvaz responds:

Thanks! I turned it into a techno song. However, just ask and I'll send an FLP of the piano for you to work on.
~X

[Semi's Song W.I.P]

Ohey Theos,

This is Reptar :D
I like this quite a bit, very well put together, I asked this already on the forum, but is this done on FL Studio or something along those lines?
Anywhom, 5/5 10/10 mk.

TheosSairin responds:

heh I just poted it on the forum as well, but yeah this much is done in Reason 4, but i'll be moving it to FL studio 9 soon to properly give it a looking over.
thanks =D