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-anthonyloprimoJudging -pounce4evur -Stevenup7002(don't anger the gods–these are PIECES.)Deadlines-January 5th (Start Date)-January 22nd (Deadline)Time CapDon'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.ThemeThe 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.**********************************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 FrequencyJuju–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 3Taizen Chisou–Mysterious Mysteries of Mystery–Another!Iasper–WIP Mystery–Steven's Going to Kill MeMega–Tower of IllusionThe Avatrol–MZX-Troventh Angle Stop 64Chel–LuxuryNehemek–9 Seconds of InspirationKamira–sirxemic–http://sirxemic.com/stuff/wtaam.mp3
I dunno. I could say which is my favorite, but it'll probably have nothing to do with skill or adherence to theme, so…yeah. All I'm saying is, if we're going to make this a competition, there's very few ways to make it fair.
I'd love to be corrected, if you have any ideas…I just want to participate because it's something fun to do. Same reason I join any competition on this site. I quite like Space and Mystery as themes. Tragedy would be an excellent theme though, since I've never successfully made music that sounded tragic, despite wanting to. It'd be challenging, at least for me.
oh me! pick me! I want to join! pick me!
Gordy's in!
Steven, I think that sounds like a really cool idea. It'd be interesting to see. We could judge based on how well the theme fits the music and such. The only thing is, we would need access to the clips they used to create the music…oh! like one clip for everyone?
Oooh. That could be interesting.
Now this is very interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing the clip we get to use.
I haven't had many opportunities to score for existing video.But there's a scene in Jurassic Park with no music, where Jeff Goldblum talks about chaos theory.
I think it would be a better idea to work with a set of scenes that don't contain much dialog, like an action scene, for instance.
I mean, there's a reason the directors didn't have music during dialog scenes, there's no reason for them. the scenes selected should be a combination of fast paced action, and slower buildups/rests to allow for the most variance.My suggestion: