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"From Bits to Bangers" - Young Composers Music Composition Competition

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Thanks everyone for your submissions!  The competition is now CLOSED to further entries!

Check out the results and awards here:

Please check out our "From Bits to Bangers" Competition Satisfaction Survey:

Please check out the entries in the submissions thread:

To vote for your favorite submissions go to the popular voting polls thread:

Starting January, 28th, 2023 and running until March, 26th, 2023 (EDIT: the competition has been extended until April 2nd, 2023) Young Composers Forum invites you to participate in another new and unique music composition competition hosted by @Tónskáld, @PeterthePapercomPoser, @Thatguy v2.0, @Omicronrg9, @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, and @chopin, all of whom will also judge the competition.

In this competition you are given a choice of orchestrating, arranging, re-harmonizing, quoting or writing variations on one of 5 given 8-bit music tracks from old video games which you must listen to in order to extract the musical material relevant to you.  The entries will be judged on a scale of 0 - 8 in 8 relevant categories:

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Pick your favorite 8-bit track and transform it in as many ways as you see fit!  Make it into a fully fledged composition according to your skills and strengths!  Please note that the judges will give you more points the more elements of your composition are original and not simply copied from the relevant 8-bit track.  However, the judges should be able to recognize at some point that your composition is derived in some way from the relevant 8-bit track.  Feel free to highlight for the listener where in your score you used the relevant 8-bit tracks' theme by showing them in the pdf, mentioning measure numbers, or giving them timestamps from your mp3.

Because there were only 9 submissions, the patrons of the competition have decided to give out a $100 1st place prize only.

In order to compete:

  • Your composition must not exceed 10 minutes of music
  • Your composition must include an element of the one relevant 8-bit track of your choosing
  • Any instrumentation or choice of ensemble is allowed
  • No age limit
  • One submission per participant
  • Mp3 submission and score/sheet music pdf required
  • $100 1st prize only
  • Deadline:  March 26th, 2023 (extended to April 2nd, 2023)

Submissions are to be sent to @PeterthePapercomPoser through direct message with the title of the composition as the subject line.  He will post the submissions anonymously in a special contest thread for everyone to listen to and consider.  Besides attaching a pdf score (without your name in it) and mp3 rendition of your music consider also including a description of your piece for the judges, fellow competitors and young composers at large to better understand your music.  Which 8-bit track did you choose to transform "From Bits to Bangers"?

Current Entrants:  (reply to this thread in order to enter)

@sswave

@Left Unexplained

@WowBroThatWasReallyEdgy

@Ferrum

@Setthavat

@Nico Fantasy

@ComposaBoi

@Grey Ross

@skvlkin

@AlexeySavelyev

@DanielCComposer

@EthaTrue

@MrMule96

@Eickso

@bkho

@luderart

@QRose

@telliur

 

Choose which of these tracks you would like to transform "From Bits to Bangers" using any means available at your disposal:  (for best results please listen on your computer rather than a phone)  If the mp3 player below doesn't work for some reason you can find the 5 8-bit tracks here:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eVpdbmW5CXAJ73XRO9IugDFY5oJYGhDn?usp=sharing  

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I'm interested in entering this competition! This seems like a great opportunity to help others learn and pick up a thing or two along the way. Some things that would be useful here -

 

  1. What is the game these tracks are from?
    • Some say, some don't. This is important for us to conduct research and find the composition details, MIDI/sheet, discovery where - what - how it is used in game for additional context to spark creativity and create something that really embodies the original work while having our own original twist on it.
    1. This would help people complete #2 if you don't provide the answer!
  2. Where can I find a MIDI version of this so I can evaluate the track to remix?
  3. Can you just provide the MIDI and maybe the sheet music for each of these tracks?
    • This will allow us to prevent error in finding the wrong MIDI or sheet, or for those composers that might not know to do #2 at all, try to wing it and figure out what the scale, chords, notes, etc etc. 
    • BONUS: if you do all #1, #2, and #3  (you are my hero)!
  4. Separate from the above, should we say which track we are entering for on this thread? You mentioned anonym but didn't mention this part.  I'm assuming the answer is "yes, state the track you are entering for", so... my entry will be for "Harvest Moon - T8; Mountain" as it shown in the mp3 player above. 

 

Excited to hear more and looking forward to participating + seeing the other participants works!

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2 hours ago, sswave said:

What is the game these tracks are from?

  • Some say, some don't. This is important for us to conduct research and find the composition details, MIDI/sheet, discovery where - what - how it is used in game for additional context to spark creativity and create something that really embodies the original work while having our own original twist on it.

 

All the tracks are labeled.  Track #1 is from Dragon's Lair for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System).

2 hours ago, sswave said:

Where can I find a MIDI version of this so I can evaluate the track to remix?

How you extract the musical material from the tracks in question is up to you:

On 1/13/2023 at 8:23 PM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

In this competition you are given a choice of orchestrating, arranging, re-harmonizing, quoting or writing variations on one of 5 given 8-bit music tracks from old video games which you must listen to in order to extract the musical material relevant to you.

2 hours ago, sswave said:

Can you just provide the MIDI and maybe the sheet music for each of these tracks?

No - it is up to each composer/entrant to extract the musical material relevant to them in their own way and according to their skills/strengths.

2 hours ago, sswave said:

Separate from the above, should we say which track we are entering for on this thread? You mentioned anonym but didn't mention this part.  I'm assuming the answer is "yes, state the track you are entering for", so... my entry will be for "Harvest Moon - T8; Mountain" as it shown in the mp3 player above.

Yes - please read this:

On 1/13/2023 at 8:23 PM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

He will post the submissions anonymously in a special contest thread for everyone to listen to and consider.  Besides attaching a pdf score (without your name in it) and mp3 rendition of your music consider also including a description of your piece for the judges, fellow competitors and young composers at large to better understand your music.  Which 8-bit track did you choose to transform "From Bits to Bangers"?

Thank you for entering.

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