Hello and thanks for checking out the sounds, first and foremost- I appreciate this feedback as well, because quite honestly, what youre hearing could very well be as you stated. I myself have sustained hearing damage (from the military) and that paired with not reading music, may be doing a number on my melodies lol. I do everything by ear in terms of notes, pitches etc. so i might be nose diving into stretches of flat and/or out of key measures. I will say though that part of my theory does experiment with melodic progressions that could be pinned for being out of tune, depending on the listener. I like to keep the progression at a broad spectrum, and then question what works and what doesnt after that. For this jam i took a sample, split it in half and into two different channels. Then i doubled or cut in half (because i did do both) the speeds of the samples against the original speed of the complimentary samples. Then i swapped the original speed channel to do the same with it. I think the sample slowed down also gives it an adjusted tone that pushes the envelope on being in tune. The raw samples by themselves i never in a million years would have thought to purposely match up btw- starkly different pieces of music in tone and emotion that just happened to please my ear when played together. I hope this makes sense, and thank you again for listening enough to help me better understand my style or lack thereof lmao