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I guess I'll be doing this this week, then. So.

Let's do something fairly open... a man is walking down a street, staring at the ground before him in order to avoid stepping on snails. What's the music playing in his head?

The theme this week is:

Music... of THE FUTURE!!

Not just the future, mind. I'm talking about THE FUTURE!! as in, for example, the year 2000 as seen from the first half of the 20th century. Flying cars! Flying ships! Heck, flying cities, while we're at it! Giant Tesla coils everywhere, just for the hell of it! Huge underground cities inhabited by oppressed, disgruntled workers who have to flee from a flood because some jerk of an android destroyed the heart machine! I'm sure you know the kind of vision I'm referring to. Or, perhaps, Jules Verne novels. Or you might be able to dig up similar modes of thinking from even earlier days. Basically, anything older than, say, Star Wars.

Make music that fits in with such themes - but please make a note of what exactly the theme you had in mind is, particularly if it's something interesting that is often overlooked.

This week's topic:

WRATH!!!1

Music that illustrates all kinds of ire, anger and fury. From adrenaline-fueled nihilistic rage against ostriches to annoyance over broken dishes to divine retribution, complete with smiting and locusts.

Odd time signatures for at least half the duration of your track, please. If you hate, say, 7/8 and it makes you want to smash things, so much the better.

No other restrictions, but do try to avoid submitting MIDI files if you can. The crappiness rather tends to spoil the mood, I'm afraid.

Panic! Waagh!

That's the theme this week (since people don't like theoretical or otherwise technical restrictions ). Entries should evoke a frantic struggle to escape from whatever, like the police, or having to clean the bathroom, or a blasphemous monstrosity from beyond the stars raining torment from a burning sky, or your neighbour's dog, or angry pirates (considering it's the 19th). Anything's fine, as long as it sounds like OH CRAP THEY'RE COMING FOR ME.

Have fun, and best of luck. Rar.

I can't get on IRC right now due to a misplaced gline, but if Unilin is on, somebody please tell him to PM me.

Apparently too many people from my university have been using Quakenet:

-81.91.66.213- *** Looking up your hostname
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-81.91.66.213- *** Checking Ident
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-81.91.66.213- *** Found your hostname
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PING? PONG!
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clones.
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Closing Link: Fuzzpilz by euroserv.fr.quakenet.org (G-lined)

Any recommendations of proxies or something of the sort to get around this?

Look at the last post for the new rules. Old posts preserved for the sake of clarity to later viewers.



I liked Ben's entry last week better than mine, but here's the new contest. I'm going to go into a more technical direction again. Rules:

- Has to be twelve tone music after Arnold Schönberg's rules. I won't kill you if you're not entirely, rigourously strict and exact all the time, but try to adhere to them.
- Has to be in 4/4, and you can't use notes or pauses shorter than 1/8 note. This rule doesn't apply to nonchromatic percussion, so you can do whatever you want with that.

And there you are. Have fun, or not.