GROUP CRITIQUE FIGHT CLUB

GCFC MARCH 2ND, 2026

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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

GCFC FEBRUARY 23RD, 2026 W/ RAVEN CHACON

MONTHLY PROJECT PRESENTATIONS FOR JAN/FEB WITH RAVEN CHACON.
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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

GCFC FEBRUARY 16TH, 2026

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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

GCFC FEBRUARY 9TH 2026

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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

GCFC FEBRUARY 2ND, 2026

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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
 
 
 

GCFC JANUARY 19TH, 2026

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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
 
 
 

GCFC 1/12/26 W/ LAWRENCE ENGLISH

MONTHLY PROJECT PRESENTATIONS FOR DEC/JAN WITH LAWRENCE ENGLISH
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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 
 

GCFC JANUARY 5TH, 2026

HAPPY NEW YEAR. 
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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
 
 
 

GCFC December 22nd, 2025

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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
 
 
 

GCFC 12/15/25 W/ JOSHUA EUSTIS

MONTHLY PROJECT NOV-DEC '25 EDITION W/ JOSHUA EUSTIS
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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