GROUP CRITIQUE FIGHT CLUB

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
 
 

GCFC DECEMBER 8TH, 2025

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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
 
 
 

GCFC DECEMBER 1ST, 2025

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There's still time to register for Pt 2 of the upcoming Field Recording Field Trip this Saturday!
Tracklist: 
Ms. Bea Bohannon - Fainting Spells Mix 2
Breathplay - Girl Dinner v3 Excerpt
Reverend Pazu - 25-11-29 Running Man 2
Shamyer - Alien 4
Karim Sharif - SETS U FREE improv 12-1-25

GCFC November 17th, 2025

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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

GCFC NOVEMBER 10TH, 2025 W/ MARIA CHAVEZ

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.
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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 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
 
 

GCFC NOVEMBER 3RD 2025

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Tracklist:
Breathplay - Oblique vs. iykyk
JP Glazer - All I Wanted (Paramore Flip)
Karim - COLLAR

GCFC OCTOBER 20TH, 2025

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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

GCFC OCTOBER 13TH 2025

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And a special thanks to @selects.4.you for sponsoring this episode.
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Tracklist:
Beam Chaperone - Ghost Guns (54th & 6th) ft. ceeyoh killah
alopratos - canibalito.
Blaned - Initiating
GERO - Humankind PERSIS
Breathplay - Boyfriend Jesus