Music: What genre?

[Nikolas]

This is a two minute piece called "Two minutes" (How original).

http://rapidshare.de/files/3815813/two_minutes.mp3.html

2 Mb

I would like any opinion and any critique on the piece and as well if anybody can tell me what genre is this piece. It is rock, pop, classical, etc...

Technical details:

Logic 6.3 PRO, EXS24
Violin by Yuiko Kinoshita

Composed, orchestrated, edited, mastered by me

[deadsuperhero]

That's great stuff, dude. What's this song for, anyway?

[Nikolas]

Actually it was for my Master, music in technology, but I gave too much love in to it, and as you can hear, I got carried away.

And all I got was a 74%

[deadsuperhero]

a 74%? Your Master must be deaf or something.
Honestly, for a minute I thought it was the Nose Cave theme. It's really good.

[Nikolas]

a 74%? Your Master must be deaf or something.
Honestly, for a minute I thought it was the Nose Cave theme. It's really good.

Sorry, my fault. I'm talking about my master in music (MMus), which I'm studying in London.

And yes, I agree with you, he must be deaf. At least I had the best mark in the class...

For the nose cave theme, you'll have to wait a bit longer, as I have promised this to somebody else, sorry...

[Gregjazz]

IMO...

The genre sounds like Ambient orchestral rock.

Here are some mixing suggestions:

- Turn down the volume on the low choir way down.
- Turn down the mids on the hihat
- Turn up bass frequency on kick drum
- Make the closed hihat decay faster
- Turn down the tape FX (those screetch noises)
- The drums need a wider more stereo beefier sound

Overall the mix and sounds are pretty good, it just seems like the overall composition needs work. It's fine if this is meant more as ambient soundtrack music, but as a composition, it'd be good to have more emphasis on chord progression and a melody (even if that melody is very atonal). If you take off the attack envelope on the strings at the climax and beginning of the song when they play that melody it'd have a lot more impact.