Hoursong V, Saturday the 14th of August. 18:00 BST

[Bulbapuck]

Hello.

So this Saturday is the fifth hoursong competition and I'm taking the "every other week"-thing back.

Hopefully this time interest will be higher, as I won by default the last time (not too great..). But I think that having it on a seperate day from the hourgame might help.

What's an Hoursong competition?
The purpose of Hoursong is to encourage composers and test them under a trial of fire. In this activity your task is to make a song within a strict and very short deadline (i.e. one hour).

When will it take place?
This Hoursong session will take place on Saturday at 18:00 BST. One hour before Hourgame. Participants will have an hour to make their song + 15 minutes to put in finishing touches (maybe mix) / upload.

How do I participate?
A theme is set by the previous hoursong's winner and by the contest's host in event of his/her absence. It will be announced on IRC (3 simple steps to IRC) and here.

Why should I participate?
Because it's FUN!
The more the merrier, and it's great pactice for the ol' music-making skills.

Additional info:
- While it is not forbidden for the theme-setters to participate in the activity, their songs cannot be voted for (to prevent accusations of cheating and to discourage regular participation).
- Instead, theme-setters are encouraged to draw trophies for the contest's winners.
- Making your song from scratch is strongly encouraged. Cover songs will not be accepted. However, participants are allowed to use one (1) element maximum that has been used already by other artists (like a riff). Just don't steal a whole chorus or something like that.
- You cannot use stuff you've made earlier, because this competition is about making something new.

Camwhoring:
If you have Camtasia or Camtasia-esque software, it would be great to see your "Making of"! Or blog about it, or just open Notepad, do something! No twittering.

Uploading:
Suggested hosts to upload your entry to are:

Recommended:
TerranRich's ShutUpload
Your Newgrounds account
http://www.mediafire.com/
http://www.box.net/

Not recommended:
http://www.sendspace.com/
http://www.rapidshare.com/

Or your own place.

Song formats:
Please use .ogg or .mp3. Given the fact that you must create something pretty fast, MIDI is allowed, but not quite recommended, since the result may vary from listener to listener. If a participant doesn't have time to convert the tune in either ogg or mp3, they are allowed to post it in whatever format they have, just make sure that the format can be played with either Windows Media Player or Winamp. This is to ensure that absolutely anyone can hear the tune.

Voting:
Just tell us your favourite tune. You don't have to enter to vote!
(If you want to tell us what you liked and disliked about all the entries, that would be super nice of you!)
The voting will end when all the entrants have voted, or on Wednesday, whichever comes sooner.
Again, you don't have to enter to vote!

Please post here if you want to participate.

If you can't make it in time an early submission is always welcome. Let me know that you want to do this and I'll send you a PM with the rules.

Hope to see you on saturday.

[Bulbapuck]

The forum was down during this, so unless Dualnames got any entries I'll start a new one in 2 weeks.

[Dualnames]

The forum was down during this, so unless Dualnames got any entries I'll start a new one in 2 weeks.

Nope, actually fell asleep. Then I saw at the log,that only Dr.White had declared interest.

[AnalogGuy]

Did you already tell us what is the theme for the music? And when will be the new "hour"?

[Dualnames]

The forum was down during this, so unless Dualnames got any entries I'll start a new one in 2 weeks.

Bulbapuck will be hosting the hoursong, so like he said in two weeks from his post.

[Bulbapuck]

Bump! This is technically today, but once again I'm very busy at the time this is.

If someone else could host I would be eternally grateful.

[DrWhite]

so... will it be this saturday or the one after? Man, this seems such a cool competition to me, it´d deserve more success.

[Bulbapuck]

so... will it be this saturday or the one after? Man, this seems such a cool competition to me, it´d deserve more success.

Indeed, I love this competition.

But I can't host this Saturday either! I've become far too busy these days.

So I'm stepping down as host. Anyone can host now really.