Hoursong Sunday! 28 November 2010 - 6pm GMT (WINNER ANNOUNCED)

[karacho]

Hi
Sorry, i couldnt make it for hoursong Saturday, so for this weekend its sunday ^^
(note to self: 6 pm gmt is 19:00 where i live - germany)

So i copy and pate from the other thread, with the slightly corrected dates for this hoursong tomorrow:

"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 Sunday (but usually 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 Sunday. 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

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."


Ok so i hope nobody kills me for hosting it on Sunday, and i hope i did everything right ^^

[karacho]

Ok here is the theme:

Action movie score!
It can be electronic, it can be orchestral, it can be rocking and popping or whatever you want. But it has to be something Bruce Lee would square off to against Chuck Norris, or think about a highway chase in Lethal Weapon, or Indiana Jones running for his life, or Bruce Willis dodging an explosion while shooting bad guys, or some kind of battle song for a Final Fantasy game. If you can think of something that sounds slightly exciting or tense it maybe is fitting this contest

Have Fun

[Kabukibear]

I pictured fighting a giant, virtual, Shiva. Like flying through a virtual reality space and having to fight this enormous Shiva figure made out of points and light or whatever, kind of in the style of the game "Rez." I had only just brought in some Sitars before I ran out of time. Ah well.

http://www.gametabs.net/files/user/Kabukibear/shiva.mp3

[karacho]

ok i dont see other participants, until someone comes in in a few minutes with an excuse you are the winner with a nice song that fits what you described ^^

[AnalogGuy]

Hi. Hopefully I am not too late? I want to join this competition but I am not able to do the hour song until tomorrow as I am not at the home right now.

Must give at least some competitor for kabukibear 


EDIT: Yeah, right, "hoursong". I managed to get back right here but I noticed only now that it was 6pm when it should have done. I'm doing the hoursong whatever it is valid or not for the competition so please let me know.

[karacho]

i talked with kabukbear, and if you want to participate you still can, you know the rules, take one hour and post the song until tomorrow

[AnalogGuy]

Here it is... not the best performance I have created... apparently I wasn't at the creative mood for doing music, but I'll let you to listen and judge.

I improvised it completely as is and only couple cymbals are overdubbed! 

Have no idea what could be the "soundtrack"... Whatever you like, be it big bad guy chasing you etc.


http://www.dmelody.com/music/Other%20Creators/AnalogGuy/hoursong.mp3

[karacho]

i like that one too, i think it sounds like as if in some dark future (imagine the future how it is shown in the early terminator movies) some soldiers have a hopeless mission that is about being unseen, maybe some stealth kills and stuff like that

[Kabukibear]

yeah awesome job ptp, that fits the theme much much more than mine. great job.

[karacho]

oh and since i started the contest on sunday and we dont want to make that the regular day voting is of course not until sunday

my vote goes to ptp88

i like both songs, and i think both fit the theme very good, its just personal taste in this case ^^

[karacho]

well sorry for being late and stuff

ptp88 you are the winner, i hope you dont make a mess of being late and screwing up the date and stuff like i did