chopin Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 I have to post this now because I need time to collect submissions, then create the video. The rules for this challenge are VERY simple: This is not a "Music Jotter" challenge. Use your usual software. Any instrumentation. Length of piece doesn't matter. Just keep in mind for those who write long pieces, I can't audition the entire 20 minute piece 😅 Create something that reminds us of Halloween. This goes up on YouTube! I might rank the pieces from least scary to most scary, or least Halloween-like to most Halloween-like. Or, I might just talk about what elements make up this type of atmosphere. It depends on the types of submissions I get! Due Date: October 1, 2024 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Ng Tsz Kiu Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 Wait it’s August already! What am I doing in all those 7 months? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jqh73o Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 When is this challenge due? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopin Posted August 11 Author Share Posted August 11 Let's aim for October 1 or sooner. I need time to review all the works, then create the video. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan1791 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 On 8/5/2024 at 2:37 PM, chopin said: I have to post this now because I need time to collect submissions, then create the video. The rules for this challenge are VERY simple: This is not a "Music Jotter" challenge. Use your usual software. Any instrumentation. Length of piece doesn't matter. Just keep in mind for those who write long pieces, I can't audition the entire 20 minute piece 😅 Create something that reminds us of Halloween. This goes up on YouTube! I might rank the pieces from least scary to most scary, or least Halloween-like to most Halloween-like. Or, I might just talk about what elements make up this type of atmosphere. It depends on the types of submissions I get! Due Date: October 1, 2024  I will certainly participate in this with my future"Distorted Thought 5". I will make it as scary and uncanny as possible. It will be a 5-6 minutes piano piece and I will provide you a recording. Thanks for organizing this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Layne Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Hi all! Here is my submission for this challenge! I tried to do something more grand and ominous, with some quirky strangeness in there too. Hope everyone enjoys! Â 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 I'll do it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnElive1 Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Hello  I just saw this and i thought to do something and share... I just did this 45 mins ago... I'm from Africa and I just joined this community. MP3 Play / pause JavaScript is required. 0:00 0:00 volume > next menu halloween submission > next 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopin Posted September 10 Author Share Posted September 10 Welcome to the community @JohnElive1Â and thank you for your submission! I love it! @Jqh73o, @AngelCityOutlaw, @Ivan1791, as a reminder, we have 20 or so days left before I close this thread out since I have to set aside time to create the video. Also, if anyone else wants to join, you still have time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan1791 Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 On 9/10/2024 at 4:00 AM, chopin said: Welcome to the community @JohnElive1Â and thank you for your submission! I love it! @Jqh73o, @AngelCityOutlaw, @Ivan1791, as a reminder, we have 20 or so days left before I close this thread out since I have to set aside time to create the video. Also, if anyone else wants to join, you still have time. Â Thank you for reminding me. In the end I won't participate, I decided to quit composition for a long while and try to start from scratch and hopefully find my artistic voice again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 @chopin My submission   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan-Frederik Carl Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 lots of cool entries here, this is my 50ct MP3 Play / pause JavaScript is required. 0:00 0:00 volume > next menu March of the spirits and pumpkins > next Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sned Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 saw this a little late, but still managed to get it in a couple days with something im happy with. definitely leaned into more of a scary atmosphere rather than a lighthearted scare that halloween probably merits, but im not good at that sort of stuff, so i thought i would lean into using orchestrational-ostinato to create a brooding atmosphere. hope you guys like it! Â MP3 Play / pause JavaScript is required. 0:00 0:00 volume > next menu halloween SCARY THING > next Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopin Posted September 29 Author Share Posted September 29 @Layne@AngelCityOutlaw@JohnElive1@Jan-Frederik Carl@sned Thank you for your submissions! I'll keep this thread open for one more week but I'll probably begin creating the video sometime next week. If any of you have scores to accompany your submissions, please update and attach those to your posts. Its not required, but the more content I have for the video, the better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sned Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 27 minutes ago, chopin said: @Layne@AngelCityOutlaw@JohnElive1@Jan-Frederik Carl@sned Thank you for your submissions! I'll keep this thread open for one more week but I'll probably begin creating the video sometime next week. If any of you have scores to accompany your submissions, please update and attach those to your posts. Its not required, but the more content I have for the video, the better. Â ofc, here it is, lmk if there are any issues PDF halloween Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan-Frederik Carl Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 sure, here is the score PDF March of the spirits and pumpkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 4 hours ago, chopin said: @Layne@AngelCityOutlaw@JohnElive1@Jan-Frederik Carl@sned Thank you for your submissions! I'll keep this thread open for one more week but I'll probably begin creating the video sometime next week. If any of you have scores to accompany your submissions, please update and attach those to your posts. Its not required, but the more content I have for the video, the better.  I don't have a full score of it and don't have time to make a full one, but if there is a particular passage you want sheet music of for the video, I can make some of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopin Posted September 29 Author Share Posted September 29 26 minutes ago, AngelCityOutlaw said: I don't have a full score of it and don't have time to make a full one, but if there is a particular passage you want sheet music of for the video, I can make some of that. Sure! If you don't mind, the part here, and 5 to 10 seconds in. I want to grab the violin and trumpet to show people how instruments can be used in unique and fun ways! If that's too complicated though, I'm ok with the first 5 bars or so, just so I have something to show.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 1 hour ago, chopin said: Sure! If you don't mind, the part here, and 5 to 10 seconds in. I want to grab the violin and trumpet to show people how instruments can be used in unique and fun ways! If that's too complicated though, I'm ok with the first 5 bars or so, just so I have something to show.   Those effects are pre-record improvs that are harder to notate. The violin is just dragging your finger up the strings with no real target notes and the trumpet is just vaguely in time, vaguely on pitch fluttering on that one note and the flute is a strictly chromatic run. I did however prepare the intro/main theme of the piece as sheet music and sent it over discord. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jqh73o Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 After all I will not be participating as I was not able to compose anything good enough to be sent to the challenge. Sorry for saying this so late. I was trying to compose something good but all of the compositions I wrote were just not good enough  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopin Posted October 7 Author Share Posted October 7 @Jqh73o No worries, I will most likely start creating the video this week. And I will be locking down submissions starting now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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