Tune Contest: May 13 - May 23 >> WINNER ANNOUNCED!

[InCreator]

For this Tune Contest, the theme is quite simple:

Express a mood.

Whether it be extreme frustration, happiness or shame, put it into music and try to use sound to express it.
Maybe even tell a story, like fighting a bad habit, or finding a fortune.

Also, don't forget to include the mood you're describing with your entry, unless it's too clear.

Let's go!

EDIT: I also just finished a piece that I think could make a nice example of one of the ways to go...
Of course, entries so far provide as good examples.

It's not very happy one and of course you don't have to do something similar, but eh--
www.increator.pri.ee/muz/suicidal_thoughts.mp3

[Hammerite]

http://www.mediafire.com/?fyiey5jxnmy

Mood: sleeping, with the little bit at the end = being suddenly awakened.

[Le Woltaire]

Drunken but happy...

http://spectrum.sitesled.com/music/Drunken.mp3

[InCreator]

Hah, superb entries! I like them both. 
Keep em' coming!

[Haddas]

Shit, shit, shit! I'm gonna be late for work.

*HONK HONK*

Get out of my way!



If you can't figure it out i'm trying to portray the stress of trying to get to work on time and getting stuck in chaotic traffic

[deFineLicht]

Nice entries so far, here is mine:

The tune

It is supposed to describe sudden anger in the begining, and then the need for revenge.

[DoorKnobHandle]

Improvised guitar solo. Means pain/sadness. Whatever. 8)




Please note that the entry is really completely improvised, for a written-out entry, I would have played one or two things different.

[MrBen]

Hey, heres my entry.

Its called slumber, its supposed to represent that feeling you get in a morning when you know you have to get up and get ready anf yet you cant move any of your limbs.

http://www.mediafire.com/?83jxmvnwtfc

[Wulftech]

hey

this is my first entry and message on this forum so be gentle =)

my entry is rather in fed up mood, when u stroll around in the city, when everything seems meaningless but then you go in nature or whatever and u discover that is it worth fighting for.. or smth like that.. been in a shitty mood lately&here is the result

feast your ears

[nihilyst]

Sitting at the window and drinking tea, while it's raining outside and dark clouds slowly cross the sky.

Rainmood

Unfortunately, there is some hissing in some of the samples. When I checked on my other speakers, there wasn't. Well, it's not worth to be of good quality anyway ^^

cheers
nihilyst

[LimpingFish]

My entry:

On the Road (128kbs MP3)

"His girlfriend just left him. A thunderstorm is brewing. He's angry. He still has the keys to her classic cadillac convertable. He drives along the coast road with the top down. He feels better."

It lacks substance, it meanders a bit in the middle, and really hasn't got an ending...but enjoy!

[InCreator]

Time is running out!
If you have any entries not submitted yet, hurry!

I will pick winner somewhere in next 24 hours.

[Phemar]

Okay I'm finished. Sort of.

Listen to this.  (Don't be put off because it's midi. And please don't use quicktime!! thanks).

This one describes the feeling you feel when you have nothing left. When everything has gone wrong and you feel completely useless, as if there's nothing you can do right.

In one word: Despair.

If I get time in the future I'll give it a proper ending

[Peder 🚀]

I think this song I made fits to this music competition.
I made this song to a fellow AGSer and a good friend of mine when she lost one of her loved cats Moritz.

I made this a little while back so if I not aloud to enter with it let me know .

http://www.pederjohnsen.com/MP3/moritz.mp3

[Wulftech]

damn peder, that's some fine tune

[InCreator]

Okay, time to pick the winner! 

I try to rate the presented mood, the idea of how it was presented by airwaves and how well the whole soup fits together as a music track or sound-related experiment at least.
I never thought that rating a tune contest would be that hard!

So!

Hammerite:

I like your entry very much.
Really strong, calm and somewhat painful track. The pads sound very heavy, absolutely giving the feeling of a hard tiredness and sleep. Cello-ish thing and stereo speech at the end give somewhat classy commercial ambient music feeling and some shivers. In good way. But having no real melody, and somewhat random notes make this song difficult to listen or remember.

Le Voltaire:

Your track was a real surprise. It's weird and funny, yet very original approach. There isn't much more I could say about the track. But what I did miss while listening was a funny video that goes with it. You definetly brought some strong variety to the contest. But as a music, or even a tune, I don't think that it's something someone could really sit and listen at home. Or a car. You got the point and I see clearly a drunken human while listening. Hell, sounds like one of my friends drunk! But it's more a one-time-joke thingy.

Haddas:

Really hardcore Haddcore. I even felt a tiny urge to remix these basslines... Late for work? The yelling, desperate-berserk synthlines at second half of the song feel more like someone killing everybody in a public place with a chainsaw... Great composition though with remarkable synth work. Some tempo would make it the next thing ravers would nod head at.

deFineLicht:

Very professional one! Sudden anger... hmm. Now I'm starting to think that you and Haddas could swap themes and both would hit the jackpot with their entry. The song struck me as a mean smile and conspiring something evil behind that smile, but not really sudden anger. But it's ear-pleasing, melodic and nice. Again, stronger tempo build would express these reactive feelings a lot more and better, I think.

dkh:

Pain/sadness. Almost what I hear in my head. What I exactly hear is crying or even stopping it by friendly hug, but that's not far from your version. The funky guitar solo sounds like teardrops and main guitar is full of sadness and love. This is definetly very good entry, and I definetly like it. Only little crit I could give is stereo: The instruments sound very different, so you should probably move them closer, to the center. Right now, both ears hear very different things and it makes them hard to mix together.

MrBen:

Soft, dreamy, sad. Ambient. Well, it's a formula to make me instantly love the track! A violin/cello/similar solo in the middle and a bit of power could make this something extremely good! Slumber... I feel this, too. It's just a bit weak, that's it.

Wulftech:

And here comes power!!! Choirs, technoish synths and piano solo. Pissed, deep, yes. This gives emotional shivers, even via my crappy stereo headset. You seem to got everything right with your entry. Is something missing? An harder version of Amen Break if anything. While instrumental work has all the power and emotions, beat itself lacks a bit of power, or specifically, larger, juicier and louder snare. And some subwoofer bass maybe?

nihilyst:

If I'd were sitting by the window with some tea and watching rain fall, I would be very happy to have your song playing in the background. It really hits the theme and is listenable casually. Actually, it's so perfect in its minimalistic, earpleasing way that I can't say much about it. From a music like this, I simply can't point out anything missing or not as it should be. And that's good, I suppose. I have listened to it while writing & thinking this and feeling quite blue now Let that be my only criticism!

LimpingFish:

Ooh, a nice beat! And nice bassline. And 80's feel. And... and--
In late 80's, Accolade would bought this track from you to use in their Test Drive game series. It has so nice retro feeling in it. Which covers the theme part. In other words, you made this competition even tighter. A bit too repetitive and hasn't got a strong point to build things around or catchy melody to hum along, but it's a good track, with strong opportunity to win. If you could bring those girlfriend and anger parts into track also--

Zor:

I love this one. The beginning is simply brilliant.
But when beat starts... and at the end where solo is, the limits of MIDI will show up... a bit more instruments, or better chosen ones could have covered it, but unfortunately this isn't the case.
Despair is there and effort also, I totally feel it, and I thank you for this short hearing pleasure.

Peder Johnsen:

Hm, grief, mourning. And very professional sounding piano. Now I'm feeling n00bish and thinking that I'm not quite right person to rate this. For a dead cat and a friend, that's quite a track you made. It is good, as much as I can say. Though, there's much more firework in other entries.
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Ahh, time to finally pick someone. I don't really want to, there's majority of tracks here that are absolutely equivalent in my liking-meter. And they're different enough so they can't be scaled in same way.
And ALL tracks have EFFORT written all over them, it's so unfair to pick only one...

But two tracks closed the competition after hearing them again and again. nihilyst's and Wulftech's.
And the one I replayed the most... the one that made me feel along the most, is made by:

Wulftech, congratulations! Start a new tune contest now!

P.S -- If I have a spare moment and some inspiration in next days, I'll try to give my best to make your contest as difficult to rate as this was 

[LimpingFish]

Yay! Well done, Wultech, and everybody who entered. And well done to InCreator for hosting.