Author Topic: AGS - Music Competition 9. July - 19. July (Read 2432 times) Tweet Share

Le Woltaire · « **on:** 09 Jul 2007, 10:42 »

An expedition of archaeologists has found these strange marks on a titanium plaque in a devastated part of the Antarctica on 1. April 2007.

After a short analysis, they discovered that the plaque is more than a million years old and definitely of extraterrestrial origin.

The plaque was immediately passed to NASA scientists.
Two months of continuous research brought no further results.
But most of the scientists agree that this must be some kind of music notation...

Maybe an alien race tried to contact us over a million years ago.
The NASA now has decided to make a public competition to get the information of this music piece.
Musicians of the whole planet are asked to bring a solution for this problem.

Maybe the future of our planet will depend on this.
Please translate this sketch into music.

Nikolas · « **Reply #1 on:** 09 Jul 2007, 10:48 »

HAHA!

Brilliant! I might enter this one, time fobidding...

Gregjazz · « **Reply #2 on:** 09 Jul 2007, 18:59 »

I love it. Reminds me a bit of Cartridge Music. (John Cage)

djres · « **Reply #3 on:** 10 Jul 2007, 01:29 »

Ok, so I wasn't able to finish my 80s track on time, and a "duet" isn't exactly my style, but this is definitely my kind of thing. Way to get creative on contest prompt, Le Woltaire!

Hammerite · « **Reply #4 on:** 10 Jul 2007, 13:01 »

It's probably better with headphones, since it depends mainly on left and right channels.
But here is the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?aacth0ofktm

khnum · « **Reply #5 on:** 10 Jul 2007, 16:06 »

ok, here's my track, even if maybe it's a little short... (which isn't that strange, since i did it in less then half an hour

)
Hope you like it :

http://www.mediafire.com/?8jhlb22ivj0

EDIT: ok, i changed the file, but it isn't a great change, so i don't think it will be a problem

Hammerite · « **Reply #6 on:** 10 Jul 2007, 17:41 »

I know what you mean!

khnum · « **Reply #7 on:** 10 Jul 2007, 19:15 »

ehm, can i post an updated version? i only switched beetween two instruments, without changing any note...

Ghormak · « **Reply #8 on:** 10 Jul 2007, 19:19 »

ANTROPY

It's in .sid format, and I'd rather not convert it to anything else, because the whole point of the tune is that the three channels go out of sync with each other and loop forever, creating new music, which means that the whole tune repeats itself only after hours (or days? I haven't calculated) of listening. If you are sid-player impaired, I recommend this: http://www.gsldata.se/c64/spw/

djres · « **Reply #9 on:** 11 Jul 2007, 05:41 »

Ok, here's mine. It's called "The Turing Test." Ten points to anybody who gets *that* reference.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ayhzmmnm4oq

djres · « **Reply #10 on:** 11 Jul 2007, 05:42 »

By the way, how are we supposed to listen to .sid if we have a mac?

BOYD1981 · « **Reply #11 on:** 11 Jul 2007, 06:59 »

Quote from: djres on 11 Jul 2007, 05:42

By the way, how are we supposed to listen to .sid if we have a mac?

http://www.sidmusic.org/sidplay/mac/

first result on google for "sid player for mac"

djres · « **Reply #12 on:** 12 Jul 2007, 02:10 »

Quote from: BOYD1981

first result on google for "sid player for mac"

I'm only slightly ashamed I didn't think to do that.

Thanks!

Akatosh · « **Reply #13 on:** 13 Jul 2007, 12:57 »

"Invalid Quickkey. This error has been forwarded to MediaFire's development team." for three of the downloads :'(

maaark · « **Reply #14 on:** 13 Jul 2007, 17:32 »

Here's my entry. I tried to mix the "earthly" approach with some alien influences.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7nzl1txjdm0

Hammerite · « **Reply #15 on:** 13 Jul 2007, 21:13 »

i'll repost mine tomorrow.

Jelfish · « **Reply #16 on:** 14 Jul 2007, 06:18 »

Hi all

I finally got something in! I was hoping to submit my first piece like 2 weeks ago, but stuff came up

Anyway, I just started playing with the "analog" waveform synthesizer in Reason. It's very mathy and fun

Hope you like my debut:

http://www.mediafire.com/?8zwjgdp1cgf

Jel

EDIT: I've updated the link. I made a small change to the piece, specifically the loudness, since it was rather quiet.

Permanent Link: http://www.chenkaili.com/ags/Alien_Message.mp3

Thaatiba · « **Reply #17 on:** 15 Jul 2007, 17:20 »

Hello everyone

This is my first participation to these competitions.
http://www.mediafire.com/?9hh4gwog2xs
I hope you like it!

Jelfish · « **Reply #18 on:** 15 Jul 2007, 17:51 »

Quote from: Thaatiba on 15 Jul 2007, 17:20

Hello everyone
This is my first participation to these competitions.
http://www.mediafire.com/?9hh4gwog2xs
I hope you like it!

Hey Thaatiba - I liked your piece a lot! I think it's well mixed/balanced, something I'm not very good at yet. Welcome to AGS!

Hammerite · « **Reply #19 on:** 15 Jul 2007, 20:25 »

I suck at mixing too, that's why most of my "tunes" tend to be one or two layers, short, and fairly simple.