GROUP CRITIQUE FIGHT CLUB

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Tape Trade is storage, sharing, and playback for mixes, masters, demos and beats. No ads, no AI. Sign up and get 2 weeks free when you sign up. Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky.   Remember to participate in the April/May monthly project w/ guest critique from Wendy Eisenberg, due May 25th!   Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here.   TRACKLIST:  Vildava - Miles of Gray Breathplay - Focus v1 Jesse - Walk Away draft1 Andy - Heart of the Sea Niranjan - Clarion v4

Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Remember to participate in the upcoming monthly project due May 25th w/ guest critique facilitator Wendy Eisenberg! Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Breathplay - Inability v1 Shamyer - FIA Quigley - Western Ambient 01

Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Jose - Porvenir v3 Jesse - purg_gen_example Breathplay - Clearing (Breathplay Hold) v1 Kingdead - Ocu Kuku - Going Kookoo on the Faders

Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Sign up for the Concréte, Foley Arts, and Sample Based Composition online course for April. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Kema - Track #2 Jose - Porvenir v2 Kuku - Balan's Bout2 Breathplay - I Need To Be One Person At A Time v1 Shamyer - Grapefruit Sade Islande Kingdead - Roum Kingdead - 845

MONTHLY PROJECT PRESENTATIONS FOR MARCH 2026 WITH DAVID MOORE. Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream all the project submissions here. The Monthly Project series allows participants to follow a single compositional prompt as a shared class project. For this month's project we are thrilled to have composer, pianist, and founder of experimental chamber group Bing & Ruth, David Moore. The compositional prompt reads as follows: One of the biggest symptoms I have noticed with Gear Acquisition Syndrome is the itch we feel to fill the air with as much sound as we can by stacking all the tools in our arsenal on top of one another. As loop and sequence enthusiasts, we often add layer after layer, perhaps to cope with the vulnerability of hearing ourselves only do one thing at a time.  When was the last time you sat in your studio with one instrument, without external processing or FX devices, and responded to your own definition of silence with this single tool? Do you feel secure enough to strip yourself down sonically to just one thing? Why not? Every so often we need a break from this stack of gear in our studios and the hundreds of software instruments and effects we have installed on our computers so that we can get back to basics and remind ourselves that we are still musicians with only two hands, two ears, and one brain. And so with this project we will do just that. For this monthly project, you are to record yourself responding to your own definition of silence for five minutes or less through a single take live performance on a single instrument without overdubs or live fx processing. Acoustic and electronic instruments are both welcome, but you can only pick one. You are welcome to add channel strip fx such as EQ, comp, or other gain stages as a post-production mix, but you cannot add or subtract parts to your single live take.  For this month, we are thrilled to have composer, pianist, and producer David Moore join us for the live critique session of your work. David is the founder of pivotal instrumental ensemble Bing & Ruth, a member of “ambient country” pioneers Cowboy Sadness, and has just released an LP of solo piano music on RVNG Intl. entitled Graze the Bell.   TRACKLIST BELOW: Elsper - Songbirds Repmeis - 26-03-26 Jesse - 8.5x10.5 Breathplay - Idiots v1 Terence - Guitar in a Room Vuilmasker - 30-03-26 Mikita - Silence Multiplied Bryson - Travis

Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Sign up for the Concréte, Foley Arts, and Sample Based Composition online course for April. Reminder to participate in the March Monthly Project w/ guest facilitator David Moore Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Breathplay - This Isn't What I Want v2 Jesse - Purgatory draft Kuku - Toyetism Axel - Museum of Us v5 Karim - Cobblestone (song for Ramona), Can't Hear You (Loop 67), Absolution

Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Reminder to participate in the March Monthly Project w/ guest facilitator David Moore Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Karim - Omen Clay v3 Jose - Porvenir Kuku - Zmiana Planu Condard - Tideturner  Cozy - theswansingswithabrokenneck Peace and Understanding - televandalist  Kema - Track #1 Mikita - fosfor sample pack    

Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Reminder to sign up for the upcoming workshop series Sample Packing as Social Practice, open to all remotely and those in NYC specifically for the IRL recording session date. Register here.   Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Shamyer - Smokin Thru The Window Cozy - Vessel Jesse - Stumble Percolator - Thistle (excerpt) Potvorrah - State of Decay Breathplay - And I'm Still Falling Felferis - Chiptune Fusion

MONTHLY PROJECT PRESENTATIONS FOR JAN/FEB WITH RAVEN CHACON. Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Tape Trade is storage, sharing, and playback for mixes, masters, demos and beats. No ads, no AI. Sign up and get 2 weeks free when you sign up. Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream all the project submissions including those we didn't have time to discuss on the air here. The Monthly Project series allows participants to follow a single compositional prompt as a shared class project. For this month's project we are thrilled to have Pulitzer Prize winning composer and artist Raven Chacon with us. The compositional prompt reads as follows: For this month’s project, we are going to experiment in alternative means of music notation. This can include, but is not limited to: graphic, text, video, interactive, or sculptural notation of a work of performed music or sound. For those unfamiliar, alternative means of music notation have been a key feature of avant garde composition since the early 20th century, ranging from Dadaist sound poetry to Xenakisian matrices to communal Deep Listening prompts accessible to performers of all levels of expertise. Since many alternative notation styles can be interpreted in a number of different ways, you should choose a style that best fits the sounds you seek to hear. I.e. if you seek something specific, notate it explicitly through text, symbolism, etc. You are to work in pairs with a fellow GCFC participant and compose a score through alternative notation specifically for your partner to perform, while they do the same for you. Each pair of participants should then record their performances ahead of time and submit both their scores and recordings for group critique.       TRACKLIST:  Elsper, composed by Terence - Music for a Singular Helicopter Terence, composed by Elsper - Interpretation Wilf, composed by Bryson - Feb 2026 Snoom, composed by Corey - Memory Melt Corey, composed by Snoom - Graphic Score. Jaydee, composed by Alexannae - Swirls Mikita, composed by Kuku - Recording #19 Kuku, composed by Mikita - Building

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Tape Trade is storage, sharing, and playback for mixes, masters, demos and beats. No ads, no AI. Sign up and get 2 weeks free when you sign up. Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Reminder to sign up for the upcoming workshop series Sample Packing as Social Practice, open to all remotely and those in NYC specifically for the IRL recording session date. Register here. And remember to get your monthly projects submitted by next Monday!   Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here.   TRACKLIST:  Jesse - Alpha Boom v3 Rotap - Looking Ms. Bea - Pulling Teeth (demo) Pazu - breathe.5 Breathplay - Rock Music (Coldplay vs. Coldplay) Potvorrah - testgaze160+vox

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Tape Trade is storage, sharing, and playback for mixes, masters, demos and beats. No ads, no AI. Sign up and get 2 weeks free when you sign up. Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Reminder to sign up for the upcoming workshop series Sample Packing as Social Practice, open to all remotely and those in NYC specifically for the IRL recording session date. Register here. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here.   TRACKLIST:  Breathplay - FIGURE A Kuku - Delicioso Slow Jesse - Alpha Boom v2 Reverend Pazu - Both of tha Feet Maya - Melee in the Background

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Tape Trade is storage, sharing, and playback for mixes, masters, demos and beats. No ads, no AI. Sign up and get 2 weeks free when you sign up. Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Reminder to sign up for the upcoming workshop series Sample Packing as Social Practice, open to all remotely and those in NYC specifically for the IRL recording session date. Register here. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here.   TRACKLIST:  Kuku - Dodecahedron Scheme Breathplay - Todd Edwards vs. Knowone Pazu - eve(dataspace)2 Potvorrah - morokk15x Karim - AM nest      

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Tape Trade is storage, sharing, and playback for mixes, masters, demos and beats. No ads, no AI. Sign up and get 2 weeks free when you sign up. Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here.   TRACKLIST:  Shamyer - JUSTLEAVEMEALONE Breathplay - Innocent as Doves v2 Kuku - DF1+2 MH - Wanda Metropolitano Karim - Sunbelt      

MONTHLY PROJECT PRESENTATIONS FOR DEC/JAN WITH LAWRENCE ENGLISH Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Tape Trade is storage, sharing, and playback for mixes, masters, demos and beats. No ads, no AI. Sign up and get 2 weeks free when you sign up. Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. The Monthly Project series allows participants to follow a single compositional prompt as a shared class project. For this month's project we are thrilled to have composer, Philosopher of Listening, and founder of Room 40 Recordings, the illustrious Lawrence English! The compositional prompt reads as follows: Using the power of studio magic, you are to create a virtual speculative sound walk using only found sounds you find on the internet and not your own field recordings. For those unfamiliar, a sound walk is a physical walk through a specific listening space, often aided by original recorded musical or sonic arts materials played back in ear. Since this is a virtual sound walk, you are to create this speculative listening space entirely within the box in the DAW, and since it’s made entirely through found sounds, this speculative listening space doesn’t necessarily need to exist in our literal world. Take us on a walk through this speculative virtual listening space and utilize the production and processing tools of your DAW to make it as immersive experience as possible using only the sounds you find online. Utilize resources such as freesound.org to gather materials, and reference the field recording compositions of composers such as Annea Lockwood, Francisco Lopez, and our own guest facilitator Lawrence English for inspiration.   TRACKLIST:  Jesse - Absorbed Breathplay - Garbage In Garbage Out (Radio Mix) TH Nordberg - Sunday In The Park W/ George Bryson - Untitled 250805 Potvorrah - Wartime Soundwalk Karim - CALL   

HAPPY NEW YEAR.  Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Tape Trade is storage, sharing, and playback for mixes, masters, demos and beats. No ads, no AI. Sign up and get 2 weeks free when you sign up. Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Remember to submit your work for the Monthly Project due on January 12th w/ special guest Lawrence English (Room40 Recordings) joining us as guest facilitator.  See you all in the New Year! TRACKLIST:  Musique Machine - Use Yr Brain Mix 1 Breathplay - HARD (Breathplay Plea) Ku Ku - I'm A Pretty Frog I'm Stunning Shamyer - MYSTERY Karim - Terraform II      

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. Join the Discord to submit your work. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Remember to submit your work for the Monthly Project due on January 12th w/ special guest Lawrence English (Room40 Recordings) joining us as guest facilitator.  See you all in the New Year! TRACKLIST:  Peretsky - frftidea1 Repmeis - Blaszfemia_121925 MH - Easterhase_121925 Breathplay - Phoenix at Desert vs. Kiss of Life      

MONTHLY PROJECT NOV-DEC '25 EDITION W/ JOSHUA EUSTIS Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/86J5KBJAYee. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. The Monthly Project series allows participants to all follow a single text score prompt as their guides for composition and production. For this month we have musician, producer, orchestrator, and film composer Joshua Eustis of projects such as Telefon Tel Aviv, Second Woman, and much more. Buy Joshua's music and go see Marty Supreme and keep an ear out for them strings! In recent months during Group Critique Fight Club, a question has continued to arise concerning our work in progress recordings: in what video game map does your piece take place? It’s a great question as it pertains to both a speculative spatiality as far as where our music would best fit, but also under what hypothetical narrative context would it best fit as well. For this monthly project, we are to take this question a step further. You are to musically speculate on a chosen narrative theme for a fictional scene that includes a who, what, where, when, and why. This speculative scene should not come from any pre-existing visual media, though pre-existing fictional text passages are allowed. The scene description should be provided by you in text format along with the recording itself. There are no genre specific guidelines for this project, but if you feel the need to include diegetic location recordings and foley/sfx as a means of elevating your score then you are welcome to provide them as part of the final recording. Recordings should be 5 minutes in duration. Accompanying text should include the story “beats” if and when an action causes a reaction in the narrative so that we may mentally contextualize the musical arc to the score, I.e. “Odysseus pauses to hear the song of the Sirens and turns towards the rocky shores.” Tracklist: Corey - Beseeched One's Theme Emil Haller - Acheiropoeitos Shabax - AsWePolishThisRock Karim - MEADOW v Breathplay - Vision of Divinity tollbooths- snow dream drones ATW - signalpath Bryson - maintenance access    

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Remember to submit your work for the Monthly Project next week, where we will have guest facilitator Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv, Second Woman, way more) joining us. TRACKLIST:  EDIE - Shimmering Waters Breathplay - Caesar Ms. Bea Bohannon - Fainting Spells V6 Peretsky - 6232111225 Karim - Admonishment and Foundries III Torrent - 815 WIP 12823      

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Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Register for the upcoming Field Recording Field Trip starting this Saturday! Tracklist:  EclipseXIV - PANOPTICON GIRL Breathplay - A Eve/B Madmod Karim - Cycles Improv 11/17 Peretsky - omar field recording 2

MONTHLY PROJECT OCT-NOVEMBER '25 EDITION W/ MARIA CHAVEZ. Buy Maria's book! Read her essay, A Sound Artist's Breakdown of Field Recording Over History. Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. The Monthly Project series allows participants to all follow a single text score prompt as their guides for composition and production. For this month we have composer, sound artist, and abstract turntablist Maria Chavez joining us as guest facilitator. This past months prompt is as follows: For this project, you are to take inspiration from the world of abstract turntablism through a digital context and utilize a DJ software of your choosing and create an original work of concréte performance using only found sounds as your source materials, rather than formal music recordings. the final recording should be a single take performance rather than utilizing overdubs. Take full advantage of looping and internal FX capabilities. Tracklist: Breathplay - Pale As Gunsmoke (Fouth St. Offramp) Gradient Fade - NOW That's What I Call Slop Vol. 1 (COOKED) Mikita P - DJ Concrete Keith - Untitled Jeff - Found Sound 01    

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Tracklist: Breathplay - Oblique vs. iykyk JP Glazer - All I Wanted (Paramore Flip) Karim - COLLAR

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Tracklist: Karim - Holding Pattern v1 Gradient Fade - Zeros of Breath v2 EclipseXIV - PANOPTICON GIRL GERO - Ultra Light Colour Kit Breathplay - a discussion on live visuals for DJ sets

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. And a special thanks to @selects.4.you for sponsoring this episode. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Tracklist: Beam Chaperone - Ghost Guns (54th & 6th) ft. ceeyoh killah alopratos - canibalito. Blaned - Initiating GERO - Humankind PERSIS Breathplay - Boyfriend Jesus

MONTHLY PROJECT SEPT 2025 EDITION! Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Tracklist: Emil Haller - Non c'è nulla al di fuori Corey M - Make a Way Jesse - Tiedt Breathplay - Nut Gallery Mikita P - Feedback is Appreciated   The Monthly Project series allows participants to all follow a single text score prompt as their guides for composition and production. This past months prompt is as follows: Create a piece of music of any style in 5 minutes or less that consists solely of samples of feedback. This can manifest itself through traditional microphone or instrument pick-up to amplifier feedback, no input mixer feedback, mobile communications device speaker feedback, or some other manifestation of the phenomenon. The samples do not have to be original if you are unable to record them yourself.

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Tracklist: Peretsky - I See U GERO - Descent GERO - Violence Cosmic Veil - 03 Cosmic Veil - Charts Toll Booths - Slow Howl

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Sign up and get 2 weeks free trial when you do. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Tracklist: Cihy - Filemon Blaned - thru my hazel eyes, i store what's on my harddrive Matthew Hassel - Triangles and Circles Breathplay - Every Tongue Confess (take 1 clean master) Shamyer - idonthateyou Karim Sharif - HUNTER'S LURCH

MONTHLY PROJECT AUGUST 2025 EDITION! Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Rich Aucoin - 11 Frequency Modulation 3 Emil Haller - Skull King Corey M - Bombpusher Mix 2 Lacorte - The Vogue Piano Bel Morte - Headspace Breathplay - All Input Felipe Sierra - Martes En Casa Cuperose - Bottone Antipanico Jose M - Sep Project  

Many thanks to Tape Trade for the support. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below, stream them on their own here. Spalton - Aftermath Anonymous - Rue Oath Breaker - Candidate Tollbooths - Angels Corey M - From Where Did It Come There Was Nothing But Sickness Breathplay - Cow Mix  

Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below: Caleb Stone - Revenge 30 Ducha Fría - Estudios en Medianoche #4 Breathplay - 2 Bitterness Revives the Tongue Woof - Untitled WIP Kev - Blood On My Hands

Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below: Tollbooths - Alien (cut) Tom Pitts - Bossman's Holiday Cirtamoa - Messy Sweaty Mess Anonymous - 04 REC326 conduits 2 James Warner Duquette - I'm Sitting Right Here Until I'm Finished With My Lunch Eevee - tasfreepa(lestina)

Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below: Wish Fulfillment - Dogsmilk (Live) Carson Mark - How I Feel (unmixed) Karim Sharif - Cactus Flower (WIP) The Sneakers - Kara Anonymous - Utter Disbelief Musique Machine - Spyglass (Miniature Mix)  

Welcome to our first episode of Group Critique Fight Club: Public Night School Edition. Join the Discord to submit your work at https://discord.gg/G3ZqNk9A8e. You can join the Patreon to attend Sunday editions of the class at patreon.com/peretsky. Tracks listed below:   Tollbooths - Copse Ducha Fría - Vaso de Agua  Anonymous - Kan't Replay Shit! Breathplay - Slow Carly v1 Bridge of Sand - Tell Your Heart What I Said Dylan Facts - wwyd? v2