Well can you? Why don't you give it a try then at Saturday the 31th of July at 18:00 BST (17:00 GMT).
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´d like to start an hour sooner/later ect.
Hope to see you on saturday.
Hahaha, 2 seconds ago I was about to PM you and ask what had happened with this :P
Can't join though, wedding to attend to.
Hey, guys, I'm in! :D
No Hoursong yesterday? I didn´t have time, but hope there will be another one next saturday.
No, because I forgot :-[
Shoot! No, I have to move this to next Saturday :(
Sorry about that!
Ok, I'm going to give this a little kick because the competition is due this evening.
Hope to see you!
Theme:
space opera theme song
good luck!
Ok, As far as I can tell there is only one entry.
An early submission by Bulbapuck:
Space guitars
http://shutupload.com/dl/cf9c0327ed3b/
And since there is only one entry, he wins by default.
A shame because it is a great entry! Really dynamic, moving, I like how it continues quietly in the end.
Phemar, what happened to you? :D
Haha I started, got about 30 seconds into the song before I realized it was going nowhere. So I scrapped it and waited till inspiration struck, which was about half an hour ago. The song ended sounding absolutely nothing like the theme :D
Quote from: Wyz on Sat 07/08/2010 21:11:33
And since there is only one entry, he wins by default.
A shame because it is a great entry! Really dynamic, moving, I like how it continues quietly in the end.
Thanks man! :D
I'll start the next one up next saturday, so it's every other week again. Hopefully there will be more interest then.
@Phemar: Post what you've got, I would love to see it :)
EDIT: This was my 500th post :D
I vote for Bulba's atmospheric track --- oh.