Last time winner Bartimeus was unable to host, and number two Jens couldn't be reached, so Viking ended up with me (barely number three).
The theme this time is
Erotic !
My eyes were fixed on her the moment she walked into my office, all feminine and full of curves.
She had eyes you could drown in, legs you'd like to suck on for a while and a bra that was struggling under its load.
With a dark, seductive voice, she said: "You must be Mr.Bogard?"
"Please," I said, "call me Horny. Um...I mean Johnny."Write some sensual music that would go well with the scene above.
No limit on the length.
Rules:
- Upload your entry anonymously to Box.net or some other public file sharing site
- PM the link to your entry to me (with your username as subject), I'll update the first post with the entries
- Voting starts at july 14 GMT 0:00, after which no entries can be submitted
- Anyone can vote
- Voting will end on July 16 at GMT 0:00
- Top entries will be awarded a Sexy Saxophone:
(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/twinmoon_1979/Trophies/Sax_Bronze.png) (http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/twinmoon_1979/Trophies/Sax_Silver.png) (http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/twinmoon_1979/Trophies/Sax_Gold.png)
Entries:
- #1 Erotic (http://www.box.net/shared/mldy6g80ko)
- #2 Dangerous Seduction (http://www.box.net/shared/7bd9ad0ws8)
- #3 Please I Said (http://www.box.net/shared/5lcevdnw4s)
- #4 Lola (http://www.mediafire.com/?yedc924jtoy)
- #5 Moment of Delight (http://www.box.net/shared/mcura9zuo4)
Finally.
Ya, I like the theme a lot. ;D ;D ;D
Please," I said, "call me Horny. Um...I mean Johnny."
HAHAHHAHAHA..awesome..
Finally, I made some trophies!
Only four days left... don't make me take those trophies home again ;)
Damn! I should get crackin'.
First entry! (check the first post for the link)
Now, are you just going to let this person walk away with the first prize? Of course you're not! ;)
A second track has been added to the list!
Hm, only two entries isn't much of a contest. If anyone asks (by PM or reply) I can prolong the competition, else it ends in 12 hours...
Also: With only two entries, does anybody mind if I choose the winners instead of voting? Your thoughts please.
Decided to stick with voting anyways...
And we have a third entry, which takes advantage of me not setting a limit on the length...
There's still time people!
Can one person have more than one entry?
Come on people, bring us music! There is still time! ;)
Just to get the timezone stuff right ... how much time is remaining?
Quote from: Questionable on Sun 13/07/2008 22:21:49Can one person have more than one entry?
Sure, you can, but not anymore! Entering's off, voting's on!
We had two last minute entries making the grand total
5. Check the links in the first post and vote!
How to vote:
- You post your top three of tunes, with #1 being the one you think conveys the mood of the story best.
After two days, I'll announce the winners.
Oh man! You should have given a time zone... =' [
haha - Nice everybody.
#1 - Moment of Delight
#2 - Dangerous Seduction
#3 - Please I Said
These songs make me want to put up venetian blinds on all my windows.
I really liked this theme. I wish I had remembered to participate. :P
It's interesting that there were two takes on this theme. They were either new age sort of RnB/Soul or they were Noir. I really fancy that dark feeling, and there was some GREAT use of saxophone.
1. - Moment of Delight
2. - Dangerous Seduction
3. - Please I Said
I guess Hofmeier and I both thought the same thing. :)
1. Dangerous Seduction : awesome, apart from a slightly dodgy sax sample
2. Moment of Delight: awesome sax sample, and pretty good
3. Lola : very Twin-Peaks-y
1. Dangerous seduction: really liked the piano
2. Moment of Delight: I liked it, but i felt it lacked something :-\
3. Please I said: nice, but really too short
Quote from: Questionable on Mon 14/07/2008 02:50:14
Oh man! You should have given a time zone... =' [
I did: GMT 0:00. GMT=Greenwich Mean Time. It's the time the forum shows when you're not logged in. Or you could have checked the time on the post where I said there was 12 hours left to work it out. Or you could have asked me to prolong the competition.
Damn I'm having trouble deciding between Moment of Delight and Dangerous Seduction. --edit-- OK, got it.
#1: Moment of Delight. Incredible sound. Starts mysteriously then gets sexual. I felt the emotion hit me and it meshed with the script perfectly. The sax reminded me of the band Morphine. One of my faves.
#2: Dangerous Seduction. Awesome 80s retro midi sound. Especially love the shrieking noise leading into the piano. Only reason I'm placing second is the *toooo familiar melody* if that makes any sense. But all the other parts combine wonderfully to create an awesome, sneaky sound.
#3: Erotic. Went for the upbeat rhythm. Was a risky choice. But this is very reminiscent of the music used in many soft porn movies. So job well done.
1st - Dangerous seduction. Although some bits were a bit too classic ways of expressing sexual arousal, in my opinion, this entry is best at expressing the theme. There is also, one more reason, which I will unveal later.
2nd - Moment of delight. Bitter cynnicism, added by a wise choise of "noiry" instruments, did a great job of expanding the theme.
3rd - Lola. Too much stuff, sounding at the same time, made some bits fairly unsuccessful, but still, some bits where this was made properly, added a psychedelic feeling, which, while not excluding the given theme, even adds to it.
Lionmonkey, lol I already know what you're going to reveal, I think. Nice.
Your comments on Lola: I agree. I think it has a lot of potential but some of the sounds looped too often and became obnoxious on the ears. If the song was expanded upon and added a few more traditional musical elements, this song could be really really good. Hopefully, we'll get to hear another cut of this song.
Unfortunately I had no time to write a song this time, I was just too busy with the animation contest. The erotic theme was so damn good I'm kicking myself for missing out.
Time's up! I'm glad everyone liked the theme.
Let's reveal the contestants:
- Erotic by Lionmonkey
- Dangerous Seduction by Nyu001
- Please I Said by Hofmeier
- Lola by djres
- Moment of Delight by TheMagician
I'm proud to announce the winners:
(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/twinmoon_1979/Trophies/Sax_Bronze.png)In Third Place,
djres with his entry
Lola(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/twinmoon_1979/Trophies/Sax_Silver.png)In Second Place,
hofmeier with
Please I Said(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/twinmoon_1979/Trophies/Sax_Gold.png)But in a definite tie for the First Place,
Nyu001 and
TheMagician!
And a big honorary mention to the beautiful (and slightly sleazy :=)
Erotic by
Lionmonkey.
Nyu001 and TheMagician, you'll have to host the next one!
Woo, First place, thanks and congratulation to the other first place and the rest of people that participated to make some erotic music ;). I said I liked the theme a lot. ;D
I liked to make this. And nice visuals I had in my mind.
If anyone have any question about mines feel free to ask.
At TheMagician: Do you want to make alone the next competition or wanna talk with me to see what we choice together?
Congratulations to the everybody and thanks for voting :)
Just a bit of self-criticism: I agree to the argument that the piece "is lacking something". The saxophone melody ends too abruptly without having the time to develop properly. Also the rythm and the other instruments are a bit flat without much variation. However, I had to complete the piece in less than two hours to make the deadline ;)
To Nyu001: I sent you a PM with my idea for the next competition.
Wow... Two first place winners, and I still get "second"? Nice!
This was my first ever contest entry, and I'm looking forward to more.
Thanks for the fun theme! What's next?
I've already started thinking that I could've easily won just by recording myself, screaming "SEEEEX" in the microphone, and then you guys show up in the last moment. Forums never stop to amaze
To Nyu001: Your "female moan" sample at the end is even better than mine! Where did you find it?
To Nyu001:
Did you read my PM? I sent you my proposal for the next theme. I saw that you were online today but you didn't reply. So please PM me or I'll be mean and just host the next competition ;)
-we don't want to keep people waiting, do we :)
The last moan was from a short clip I found between recorded files I have. I edit it, cut it and added little effects to it as the others moans. The other moan that you hear in the track is from a vocal things from FL studio which I cut it for have that little moan and added effects to it. And the other one It was a woman saying give me pleasure or something like that which I edited a bit too. FL studio have it too. I asked people to look for moans of women and what I got was women screaming while having sex lol. Like 2mbs of screams...
I wanted to add a moan because of how I was visualizing the scene. It was an approach from the woman to the guy slowly and seductively for seduce him and tempt him. So, he could not resist and both went a bit too far... :P
At Themagician: I have no read it completely paying all my attention. But I will soon today. But so far I like it!
Quote from: TheMagician on Wed 16/07/2008 22:33:23
To Nyu001:
Did you read my PM? I sent you my proposal for the next theme. I saw that you were online today but you didn't reply. So please PM me or I'll be mean and just host the next competition ;)
-we don't want to keep people waiting, do we :)
Hey, I was wondering which samples you used, as it sounded really good. I've tried doing noiry things multiple times now, but it always comes out quite bland. Thanks in advance!
I mostly used different soundfonts on this one. Here is the list:
Rhodes, bass were from Edirol Super Quartet.
Strings pizzicatos, string tremolos, string gliss and strings were from Edirol Orchestral.
Piano was from a soundfont called Equinox.
Vibraphone, glockenspiel were from a soundfont called S J Orchestral GM.
The Sax was from a soundfont called Realsound 2.0
The percussions were from Samples of FL studio, Realsound 2.0, Edirol Super Quartet and Edirol orchestral.
I hope to get a better sound quality but I guess I will be sticking mostly with soundfonts for a while till I get money. :P
There is a total of 18 channels in the track plus the audio moans.
Edit: I noticed it was for Magic! Oops there! haha.
Oh man, just download a *legal* copy of Reason 4.0
The sound factory in that program will last you forever, and many times you cant even tell its a synthesizer the notes come out so clean and add a little of your own distortion. Creating drum and bass beats alone makes it worth it. My god I love Reason.
(http://www.sonicspot.com/reason/reason.jpg)
I'm a buffoon when it comes to arranging music but I can navigate Reason with ease.
Thanks. I will check it to see what they have. :)
Quote from: maaarkHey, I was wondering which samples you used
Glad you like it. This uses the NI Kontakt 3 libraries which ship with the full Kontakt 3 software.
The horns, bass and drums are taken from the "Band" library and the celli and vibraphone are in the "Orchestra" library.
The great advantage of the Kontakt 3 Band library over other sample libs is that you don't have to tweak 10 sets of CC tracks to get the right sound.
The only thing that really gave me a headache was the pseudo random code it uses to switch between different samples of the same note. That means: if you mix down 3 versions of the track you'll get 3 different sounding results (at least I didn't find a way to change that). So in the end it was a bit of trial and error to find a nice sax line.
You may want to listen to THIS (http://stefan.lohner-net.de/mr_frustration_man.mp3) piece which I did a few weeks ago. It is a recreation of the famous "Mr. Frustration Man" theme from Grim Fandango completely done with instruments from the Kontakt libraries.