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Jinkies! Eleven entries.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1424299667' post='2695014']
Yeah... there is a risk that everyone will vote for everyone! Which would be a lovely kind of utopia, if a little boring.
We'll perhaps ask listeners to "vote for their top three favourite compositions". We can't limit it to three votes, so we'll have to see how it goes.
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I don't really see that as a risk. I'm not saying the people who vote aren't kind and enthusiastic but I think the voting is like saying 'click each one you'd be happy to see win over the others'. I don't think, in that case, you'd click more than three. Most times it'll be one or two.

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1424255863' post='2694340'] Don't worry, I've gone for this month's [i]nul points[/i] crown! [/quote]

That's the second best prize after winning. I was sure I was on for it last month. I had zero up until the voting closed and the final tally showed three for me. I don't know how that happened. I was glad of the sympathy votes in a way, but I was also kind of looking forward to getting literally zero.
Maybe this month!

Great. I clicked the instant I saw your avatar beside the forum link
This is really interesting.

As if prompted by the side of a cereal box, I have a couple of questions/comments.
1. Where did you get that walnut?
2. What do you plan to do with the bits of the Cort that you're not using?
3. That yew is [b]gorgeous. [/b]Being as toxic as it is, did you have any trouble working with it? Or did you take any extra precautions?

I can't wait to see more.

[quote name='Dazed' timestamp='1424120978' post='2692956']
I don't get cup cake making or customising clothes but I manage to let it go and let those that do enjoy it.
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no no no no...you need to get on some forum and make them explain themselves.

This has probably been done to death.
I couldn't care less what people do to their own instruments but I'd say there's two strong arguments for doing it.
1. Aesthetics. I'm slightly biased as someone who pays their rent by making art but I think aesthetics are crucial. You can get a wide range of tones out of any decent bass. The difference is looks and, most importantly, feel. I know I wouldn't own a bass that sounded amazing but looked like a heap of sh...
To some people, that is the most beautiful bass. Not me. I like the "coffee table" basses.
2. I think Paul Simonon said he bought a brand new P bass and as soon as he got it home, carved his initials into it. So it's done. There's no preciousness, no pussy-footing about lest the pristine new guitar get a scratch.

I'd say there's very, very few[i] relic'd bass[/i] owners who pretend, when questioned, that their bass is many decades old with genuine wear and tear.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1423960610' post='2691036']
[color=#800000][b]To clarify: voting ends next Saturday 21st![/b][/color]
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voting ends or voting begins?

Ok, I'm submitting.

After never really getting into any flow with last months comp, I wondered if there was more to life than Kraftwerk and sci-fi soundtracks. I decided there isn't.
Nevertheless, I thought I should approach this one more loosey-goosey and instead of my usual thing of writing on the bass and then transferring to MIDI, I kept this almost all on the bass (this is BASSchat after all). The other reason is to get the CLANG of steel on steel that the inspiration picture put in my head.

Not overly happy with it by any stretch but I'm really busy with work this month so I have to leave it where it is.
Anyway, enough waffles, here's the noise:
[url="https://soundcloud.com/alittlebitrobot/clangour"]https://soundcloud.c...trobot/clangour[/url]

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1422787742' post='2676678']
Having stared at the picture for a short while , I see a big smiley face with light bulb nose on the front of the boiler
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Yep saw that too.
I saw the photo earlier and I've been telling myself not to use a beat that sounds like the wheels on a track.
The problem is, I don't think I can keep that promise.

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1422749447' post='2676519']
Yay! Congrats Ben!

I warn you all though, I'm entering in February...and I play to lose!
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This forum ain't big enough for [i]two[/i] old, tin robots from the future..
that February loss is MINE.

Oh, and yes, congratulations Old_Ben You had my vote.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1422224921' post='2670169']
Who knows, you could be choosing it yourself..!
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[checks poll]
...unlikely.

Voted!
Looking forward to next months picture already

Right. I pretty much meant everything I said about my effort this month. To put it nicely, I struggled.
And now, the time has run out so, rather than totally abandoning it, I've uploaded it because I'll never get anywhere if I just abandon everything that isn't working.
I'm not sure in what way, but I need to approach next months competition a bit differently.
Anyway, here it is
https://soundcloud.com/alittlebitrobot/space-rabbits

I did at least keep it brief for you

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1421966654' post='2667348']
Well we've got a ruddy good turnout for January already! Well done all

If your work is still 'in progress' (like mine...) then you have until midnight on Saturday to knock it into shape. Or just say hell with it, and post it up anyway!

[i]"Art is never finished, only abandoned"[/i], and all that.
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Mine'll be abandoned all right. Although, I think the correct term is "fly-tipping"

reminds me of an old Mulligan and O'Hare tune http://mousehands.co.uk/common/images/opengraph.jpg

Anyway, I'm feeling much better about my effort now.
Thanks

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1421674137' post='2663779']
I like unlistenably cacophonous...
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In that case, I might just go for the "shortest entry" award.

current status: unlistenably cacophonous.
I mean, I want it to be dirty but I have no idea how you all make your tracks sound so legit.

wow, that's pretty.

That neck's got a trussrod wheel. I'd probably buy it for the neck and reshape the headstock.

wow, so much clickity-clangy fret noise on both those videos. Still, I'd love to try one, because it might be more to do with active electronics and EQ.

Things are getting silly cheap..

ow.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1420480058' post='2649809']
Some folks have a gift for poetry, it would seem. Is there really nothing else to be gleaned from this picture..?
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Well, initially I wondered if it was a political comment on seemingly-oppositional political figures all being controlled by an unseen puppet master but, for that to work, the two puppets should be different.
Then I read the post in the other forum and realised that this artist is just making a visual joke about the woman in the original photo making two V signs, like a 'photobomb rabbit-ear' thing.
So, it's actually much shallower than I originally suspected and basically is, now, a woman with her hand up a pair of rabbits arses.
As such, I think whatever tune I put together will probably be more of a reaction to the aesthetic style rather than any meaning the image might be trying to convey.
I'm expecting some dirty, noisy silliness from me and most of the other entries Anybody who can put together something that is both listenable and apposite could run away with it

[quote name='Horizontalste' timestamp='1420476978' post='2649763']
Thanks Dad, your so inspirational. I just don't think a song about a woman with her hand up a rabbit's arse is something I've conceived before :-p
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eh, TWO rabbits arses, actually.

ok, ok... so now I'm expecting a few dirty, fuzzy, grungey guitar things.
hmm