Another Music Challenge

Posted by pounce4evur on Dec. 27, 2012, 4:38 a.m.

Hey guys. I just wanted to throw this out there, and see who's interested in, or has time for a music composition competition. Of course, this one would (hopefully) be a lot more organized than the last one, and I'll actually have time to sit down and judge this one, because I don't need to do Wintermester, seeing as I passed all my classes.

GIMME SOME IDEAS.

Participating

-JuurianChi

-Juju

-Mega

-MMORPGguy

-Charlie Carlo

-Kamira

-Iasper

-Taizen Chisou

-Colseed

-hel

-MahFreenAmeh

-aeron

-sirxemic

-eagly

-mr8bit

-Gordy

-Nehemek

-The Avatrol

-Rez

-anthonyloprimo

Judging

-pounce4evur

-Stevenup7002

(don't anger the gods–these are PIECES.)

Deadlines

-January 5th (Start Date)

-January 22nd (Deadline)

Time Cap

Don't intentionally try to kill us with a 20-minute piece. If your piece runs a little long, that's fine, but please be aware of the fact that we've got to sit through and analyze every bit of your composition.

Theme

The theme is now Mystery!

**Decided to change this to a challenge, because coming up with a ranking system for music is really difficult and could prove to be unfair. Each piece will receive individual feedback, but will not be ranked or compared.

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EDIT:

Here's a list of the entries that have been posted thus far. I am posting ALL of the links that you guys have given us. If you want to scrap a piece, update/edit it, or don't want it to be critiqued, let me know.

mr8bit

Who Did Iddit?

Charlie Carlo

Infrasound

Dead Frequency

Juju

Music for the Tip of your Tongue

Music for Fossils

Music for a Crime of Passion

Music for an Abduction

You were with me all along, weren't you.

JuurianChi

Mystery Music Challenge 2

Mystery Music Challenge 3

Taizen Chisou

Mysterious Mysteries of Mystery

Another!

Iasper

WIP Mystery

Steven's Going to Kill Me

Mega

Tower of Illusion

The Avatrol

MZX-Troventh Angle Stop 64C

hel

Luxury

Nehemek

9 Seconds of Inspiration

Kamira

sirxemic

http://sirxemic.com/stuff/wtaam.mp3

Comments

sirxemic 11 years, 10 months ago

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sirxemic - wtaam.mp3
It has a name you know :V It's "With this Alien aside Me" and the alien is the mysterious part :P

Anyways, I kinda agree with almost all points. Note that I did not apply any mastering. I basically made the tune by improvising on my keyboard, and only add more layers without changing the 'old' layers, because I was being lazy. That said, I kinda find it weird that you named it a "machine gun effect", since the dynamics are already there because my timing and velocities while playing on the keyboard aren't that machine-gun-ish :P

The dingy things are Reason's low-quality samples of the Kalimba.

Thanks for the criticism, it's appreciated.

Quietus 11 years, 9 months ago

just gonna say it's coming on three weeks since this thing finished and half of us still haven't heard a thing from pounce. do we need another judge to fill in? or should we just unpin this thing since it's already ancient?

Quietus 11 years, 9 months ago

i didn't mean you Steven lol. and yeah some of us could have written whole albums to be judged in the time this has taken. actually it seems JuurianChi has written two albums in this frame of time. :|

firestormx 11 years, 9 months ago

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actually it seems JuurianChi has written two albums in this frame of time.
Fuckin' Juurian. Making us all look bad.

But yeah, Pounce hasn't been very talky lately, so I'd imagine she'd like to avoid dealing with this for now. I get like that a lot. Just avoiding everything.

The Avatrol 11 years, 9 months ago

No problem for the delay Steven. It's only a music challenge on a website. It was sort of casually agreed upon, and I'm sure the community realizes that people have lives/important things to do outside of the realm of 64digits. :)

Juju 11 years, 9 months ago

Suck my dick, Pounce and Steve.

You're the worst people on 64D, yeah I went there.

Juju 11 years, 9 months ago

NO U

JuurianChi 11 years, 9 months ago

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Fuckin' Juurian. Making us all look bad.

Why do I feel like I've heard this before…

Taizen Chisou 11 years, 9 months ago

Yeesh, I somehow missed Pounce's critiquing entirely when I was leafing through the responses.

Yeah, the percussion is constantly something that I wrestle with in all of my songs. It's either too simple and repetitive, or too complicated and goes everywhere and clashes with everything else.

For which, I apologize to all real drummers who listen to the songs that I make.

The Avatrol 11 years, 9 months ago

I accidentally deleted the set and those tracks because I was deleting a bunch of tracks I felt were weak compared to the rest of my catalog. I got a little carried away and didn't realize until after that I had deleted those tracks. :O If you still have access to, or remember them at all, you can critique them, but it's not really a big deal either way.