El Noveno Círculo

Our band consists only of Silver and Steven. Anyone else taking part is considered a one-off collaboration.

Both on this website and on our YouTube channel @ElNovenoCirculo616 (El Noveno Círculo) and on our Spotify , we upload music. This music is composed, written, arranged, produced and mixed by Silver and Steven.

We have SoundCloud , but it is abandoned, since SoundCloud limits how many songs you can upload for free and we see no advantage in paying for that subscription to share our music.

We also have the YouTube channel @elnovenotrianguloxd666 (El Noveno Triángulo XD), our TikTok and our Instagram , where we mostly upload short music-related videos, such as music analyses and topics about instruments, among others. We also occasionally upload long videos on more specific topics.

We do not believe a song can be "objectively" good or bad. Aesthetic evaluation is, semantically, subjective in itself; so what we try to do is be as fair as possible when evaluating. What seems fair to us is not to evaluate a single aspect, but most of the characteristics a musical work can have.

This gives us our well-known 10 criteria: Structure - Instrumentation - Performance and Technique - Melody - Harmony - Rhythm - Lyrics - Production - Mixing - Innovation and Originality.

A common misunderstanding is that we only evaluate complexity. You could say that each of the criteria above is split in two: complexity and quality. An example makes this easier to understand: the melody of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" has high quality, since its sense, predictability, digestibility and order are quite high, but its complexity is low, since it has few notes, uses few musical resources and takes few risks. There are songs with solos of hundreds of notes that are very hard to digest even for trained ears, which gives them high complexity and low quality.

This means our system does not really favor any genre or artist, since a high final score means the musical work is both complex and high quality in most aspects.

It is easy to get carried away by emotions when aesthetically evaluating a musical work. For some people a song may be a 10/10 because it evokes intense emotions. That is completely understandable; however, since our intention is to stay as consistent as possible with our scores, giving a song a 10/10 could be read as "there cannot be a better song" or "the song literally cannot be better", which seems unreasonable to us.

Therefore, we will never use 10/10, since it could be said to point to absolute aesthetic perfection. The same goes for 0/10: that score would point to absolute aversion and imperfection, so we will not use it either.

You could say we keep songs away from both extremes, since we try to leave room for "a song can always be better or worse", both in a specific aspect and overall.

We fully understand that the scoring system we created, by trying to be fair and consistent, does not favor any artist or song, which can create controversy and disagreement. We get it: this system does not try to dictate superiority or expect you to agree with us. It is subjective; you can disagree with us and we have no problem with that.

We are only active on our Discord server, our space on Matrix , our two YouTube channels ( El Noveno Círculo and El Noveno Triángulo XD ), our TikTok , our Instagram , our Spotify and our website. We do have other networks, such as Twitter (X) , among others, but we are not very active on them.

You can send us a message on our Instagram @elnovenocirculo616 or an email to [email protected] .

Visit "Our music" and open the release you want to listen to. You will also find links to our external platforms. You do not need an account on this site to use the player and the available downloads. The files are in OGG and FLAC format.

Each song's page shows its story, lyrics, chords and credits, once they are published.