Quote from: Wyz (though slight changes made)
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 6pm GMT. 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 (that's me). It will be announced on IRC and here on Saturday. You can also contact me on IRC and partake earlier, if you can't make it on Saturday.
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:
TerranRich's ShutUpload (http://shutupload.com/)
Song formats:
Please use .ogg, .mp3 or MIDI. 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 after a week.
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 all you awesome music-makers will join!
It has come clear to anyone who wanted to compete today that I am a twat for falling asleep and missing the comp.
So, the comp is now moved to next Saturday, and Wyz will be here to announce the theme and collect the entries.
All I can say is: I am sorry. :-[
It's time to announce the theme which is:
Folk music
http://shutupload.com/dl/a31f57371b3e/
after the song ended there is silence (about 3 minutes or something) that accidently got there, the "song" is over after about 30 seconds :P
i hope somebody thinks of it as "music" :D
I'll leave the rest in the capable hands of Jon :D
Cute song karacho.
Well you obviously won, and I am rather confident you'll host this better then me. ;D