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Okay - this first part of my post is completely off topic, but it got me so mad, and I can't be bothered starting another thread in General..... *sigh*

Our family was meant to get Broadband in mid-december, right, so we telephoned the lovely people Telstra (I don't think they trade in America, so for all you USA people, Telstra is Australia's largest communication company), and made an appointment. And then they cancelled it for no reason. So a week later (when we found out they cancelled) we booked another one. And then they cancelled THAT too...!! And this has been going on right up til six days ago, when they stopped us from accessing the internet altogether.... and their reason was because we were getting broadband, but we weren't being quick enough about it!! ARGH!!! So my mum phoned them up, started abusing them like any normal person who has been waiting for service for three months would, and in the end they told us they would reconnect us to the internet, and they will come out on Tuesday to finish the broadband installation!! how crappy can one company get?? So now, I'm finally back on the net, just in time to post my midi!! YAY!!!

It's the cartoony dick tracy one.... in case you couldn't tell from the title

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/cartoon_dick_tracy2.mid

All fixied up now

Go and enjoy it.....

Edit: Oh, yes..... and it's 31 seconds long......

I love federation sqaure...... I've been there about six times in the last month or so, and every time I get goosebumps!!

I like the torture chamber idea. It's the sort of thing Bush WOULD do if he could. People are also dumb enough to believe it......

I understand you completely!!

I was so used to starting bottom right in all my math classes that it took me AGES to get used to the AGS way (as well as other progs). But now I'm used to it, and I don't notice until someone (ie. you) points it out.

Give it a couple more months and it'll be second nature...

Next: Why superman insists on wearing his underwear on the outside.....

This contest is a piece of genius!!

Me = entering!!

I went to a Buddhist Temple to celebrate (not that I'm chinese, or anything. Just curious). It was really good, actually. I learnt a LOT about their culture (well, a lot more than I thought I knew), and everyone was so happy and cheerful.

AND THEY WERE GIVING OUT FREE MONKEYS!!!!

p.s. unfortunately they were only paper monkeys. :-(

Okay guys... sorry I'm a bit late posting, but some *insert very insulting name here* broke into my house last night and poured soft drink all over the computer

So I'm currently on a friend's computer, just posting a quickie...

GeoffKahn: A very mystical piece, with a beautiful melody accompanied by a soft, warm 'wash'. The non-metrical bars were amazingly well done, and the heavy reliance on percussion for that part really gave the piece a magic flavour.

Ghormak: I was really pleased to hear this entry. It was the type of piece that I could play over and over again, and I could truly picture these intricate paintings of a distant world coming to life before my eyes (well...... my EARS if you want to be technical)

Damien: An awesome slant on my idea. I'm glad you took the initiative to do something different. It worked out for the best, and even though it was a million miles away from what I expected, I really REALLY like it.

Loominous: If I were a man of few words I would just be saying "WOW!!!", but I'm not, so I'll take my time... The opening was very simple, but extremely ethereal, like drifting into a wild dream where you didn't recognise anything, but could still tell that it was a good place. The strings were the perfect accompaniment, and the melody truly soared.

Okay, now for the judging (my friend is getting impatient!! Why?? It's not like I'M paying for his internet hours..!!)

All the entries were great (I really mean that, too. They were astounding), but there can only be one winner, and this weeks award for excellence goes too:

LOOMINOUS!!! Congratulations, buddy. You now have my complete permission to go ahead with the next comp...

For what it's worth, I think this guy is good......

I don't believe a word of it (personally), but you have to admit, he's chosen the perfect type of media to start the hype, and he's gone to all the right places to get people interested. He doesn't care WHO'S interested, just HOW MANY, and he certainly did that job well. You don't just start this type of hoax up after one night of drunken pleasure... this guy thought about it.

I disagree with most of what he says for the same reasons that everybody else has already pointed out, but whether you think it's gold or crapola, it still makes an interesting read, and I find it fascinating to think that people get so involved.

The only regret I have is not being able to ask some of my OWN questions. Forget the policitcal crap...... I wanna know next weeks lotto numbers.....  :'(

FINALLY!!! Lord of the Rings gets Best Drama!! I have been waiting for this to happen for so long!! (Yes, the extra exclamation marks ARE necessary )

Sure, I loved the last movies that took out best film (The Hours, blah blah, whatever the others were), but I was kinda angry that they got it over over LotR. But that's more to do with my love of the book, rather than P.J's adaption (which is fantastic, nonetheless).

But this year I am truly happy!! But, of course, we all know the Golden Globes is not the LAST big test....

so pray people.... pray...

Ack!!

This 'metal music' must be a 'teenage boy' thing.....
*like I can talk*

sorry... that probably sounded like I was trying to be all superior...... I respect everyone's taste in music.

I just don't always understand it.

Thanks Damien

Thanks Ghormak! Great stuff!

As I said, I won't do full reviews until I judge, but both entries have been VERY cool!!

Sorry, boyd. But it WAS a little confusing, and it wasn't as easy to figure out as you might have thought. How you read your program and how I think are VERY different things. Remember that I've been stuffed with Theory since I was in preschool  :'( !! You, on the hand, have a more 'natural' / 'humanistic' interpretation. It's hard for me to just forget everything I know to try and understand a concept.

By the way, from what you've described, it sounds like your composing in 3/4.

Oh, and thanks to Geoff for his entry. Top stuff!!! I'll do a more complete review when the deadline ends.

Could someone explain 3/3 to me?? This is a serious question, because as far as I know, it doesn't technically exist. Shouldn't it be 9/4 or some such?

The denominator of a time signature works by doubles (I'm trying to make sense here......). The most basic time signature you can have is 1/1. Doubling it gives you 1/2, and again is 1/4, and so on: 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 etc etc. This is my understanding of time signatures anyway, and it leaves no room for 3/3, because there is no such note value as a 3 (a dotted minum, perhaps, which is what makes me say 9/4, assuming there are three dotted minums in a bar....)

If someone can produce evidence to the contrary, then I revoke every word of this post....

Sorry if this looks like 'music masturbation'. It's not. It's a genuine question and I want a genuine answer

I'm still hoping for an entry or two as well.....

Hmmm... I don't think my internet is working properly... For some strange reason the smooth, robust lumps on Orlando's chest have become all blurry.

Beats me why...  

But it's still a cool pic

Well, never fear.

Boyd has shown us all (through his loverrly little diagram) that he understands 3/4 without ever actually having composed in it, which is definitely a skill in itself.

Keep the smiles coming, and maybe a few entries wouldn't hurt either  

Three cheers for Ivan!!

! ! !

How about: a bunch of American army medical officers pull a bunch of crazy pranks to survive the horrors the Korean War.

Damn... I wonder what you could call that book??

Maybe M*U*S*H?


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LMFAO! Sometimes I love DG... other times I love him more...

Well, boyd.....

from what I can make out of your diagram, that seems to be correct. I assume that C-5 signifies the first beat, and that the little ... things are the other beats which you would put (obviously) other things into. If this is right, then you're diagram on the right of 3/4 is also correct.

But I still maintain that this is very easy stuff (And I'm not speaking as a college professor with 6000 years of experience to brag about). I didn't have to take piano lessons FIRST to learn it. This was in pre-school, before they're even teaching basics like 1+2 =3 . Any 5 year old who could not understand the 3/4 4/4 concept was not allowed to continue. And it wasn't because they were elitists. It was because it was a basic concept that should have been easy to understand.

If you don't like the rules, then don't enter.

In terms of the title being sufficient guidance, I'm a little split on that one. My opinion of the tune contests is music-lovers composing songs that show that they can conform to different rules (Which is most certainly what happens with REAL composers who write film-scores). I know, I know, no movies waiting for music around here, but most people seem to like a few boundaries, to keep the competition more specific, and, in some ways, making it a little fairer. This irregular bar rule I put in will show whether someone CAN make good music with odd beats, or whether they are just used to putting a 12 bar blues progression over and over again, with just 2 random bars of classic pop inserted to meet the requirements.

Another thing that annoys me is when people start arguing incorectly about complete rubbish!! Like people who argue for hours over whether or not the Telletubbies are secretly talking in dutch (or any foreign language, really) so they can tell kids to go and murder their neighbours without their parents realising.  It made me laugh, yes, but if also made me angry that people can actually argue about that kind of thing. What happened to arguing about the good old things, like Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, and which Cereals taste better??

Oooh..... and those silly buggers who try to turn everything into a government conspiracy. I find them fascinating, definitely, and some of them could even be true (SOME, I say, like the landing on the moon, which I'm not really decided on), but to act as though you know FOR A CERTAINTY is just...... gay! Some of my friends are like "oh, what the hell? Of COURSE they landed on the moon! Like, duh! Why would they lie?" Not that there was any competition to beat the Russians to it, or anything. And they don't know how to admit that maybe, just MAYBE they don't have a clue what they're crapping on about, and everything is just subjective and they're being very unwise to try and change people's opinions based on their own strangely formed ideas.

Wow!! I love this thread. I feel so much better after posting. It's like screaming at someone in the knowledge that they're not going to scream back...