lurksalot

Red run club at aintree on Friday 

they were excellent , but only saw a few numbers as the timings and train times got in the way.

they were a bolt on gig to the race meeting. 

5 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Very advanced notice, but as Weeds haven't played in public for around 9 years I thought I'd mention it... Complete with psychedelic and electronica support and 60s oil projection! Tis in Chester, btw...

 

 

I’m sure we’ll get a good gang out for that one young Leonard 😁

I'm not sure I'll get much more to add to this so I'll leave it as it is

 

just a bit of Electric piano in a smooth stylee ,  Paws for effect  

 

 

Nothing Technical to add , just a bit of Ozone 8 over the top 

10 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Dummkopf..! You've posted the Feb Pdf, not the May one..! 

And I thought I’d sussed it  , and suitably edited 

Are your certificates here ...

 

BC cert April 25.pdf

 

 

yes,  but I can't see it DOH  

 

 

yay , done it 

 

Edited to put the correct cert link in 

 

first part sorted ... 

 

A superb blowout of joint winners in April, all on the money with excellent tuneage.

 

By a marvelously community spirited resolution , Jean-luc Pickguard has provided us with a lovely image ....

 

 

 

"Ralph the Bulldog" 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I chuckled muchly when this presented itself in my PM's !

 

So, we need rules , 

 

✅ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline.

❌ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on

❌ No Bagpipes, May be ... May not .. unless as a background ambience at -65db 

❌ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you..

 

Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 24th May ... but I am out on the Sunday morning so you might get a few more hours polishing and rolling in glitter till Tea time on the 25th

 

A line or two of blurb as usual for the vote thread will be super duper smashing lovely. 

 

Good luck, Have fun 

 

 

 

 

I back , I’ll go and set up for May and try making the certificates! 

Well done guys , it was difficult to pick a winner out of those!

 

I’ll do the certificates later , in very small print , but we need to choose a photo.

 

I reckon the first one of you to  acknowledge your fine victory on this thread can send me a picture, and I’ll put it up this evening. 

 **PUT YOUR SHADES ON**

This might be the brightest thread you have ever seen on BC !!

 

 

A most excellent winning tune from @Leonard Smalls  brought out his choice of image for our April shenanigans .

 

He suggested that " Looks like folks voted for The Funk! So piccy here:"

 

 

 

 

Did it draw the Funk out of our compositioners , well, you will have to have a listen and judge for yourselves...

 

having judged , please then vote for you favourite  3 

 

 

1  @Chiliwailer   I really liked the photo, it made me think of the intensity of chaos caused by GICs and how that'd be spot on for a new pedal I'd got recently - so in this tune the GIC attack starts at around 35 seconds!

 

 

 

 

 

2 @Leonard Smalls  I've now rolled it in 3 coats of glitter and 2 coats of oak-stain varnish, so here's some ambient grooves in both 6:8 and 4:4 time. Possibly.

 

 

 

 

 

3  @Baloney Balderdash   Here I take you on a timeless, time dissolving, musical folk drone journey slowly flowing  down a fluctuating colorful stream of consciousness, with the help of my brand new EHX Pico Deep Freeze sample sustainer. 

 

 

 

 

 

4  @upside downer  Jah UD sits at his laptop staring at the swirling, whirling, wobbling colours draining downwards into his keyboard and decides it's probably time to kick the hallucinogenics into touch, but not before laying down this pop reggae curiosity. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5  @Jean-Luc Pickguard  This is about Quantum mechanics, specifically that quarks are never found alone — they are always stuck together in particles like mesons, which are made of a quark and an antiquark, or baryons — like protons and neutrons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

6  Lurksalot    every time I tried to do a bit something got in the way , so I thought the picture could be ...Interference 

 

 

There are only 6 but we will stick to the 3  votes and see what happens 

 

voting will close at midnight on 30th April

 

I told you to put your shades on 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sorry I'm late guys

 

just got home ..what a week 

 

anyway here's mine    Interference

 

 

I'll do the vote thread now 

 

2 hours ago, Lord Sausage said:

My won't be finished by the end of tomorrow. I'm out

While the deadline is midnight tomorrow , I won’t get to setting the vote thread till tea time when I get home from work , as long as it’s here by then all is cool , and if they’re anything like mine , they are never finished , they are set out into the world on a hope and a prayer to find their way in this cruel, cruel world.

😁

Loads of bands at the Nantwich festival today, but stand out was junkyard dog blues duo , oh boy , seen them  three times before and wow, engagement , playing skills and a great gig experience rates the boys very high in my book

A bit late to the party reading the comments , but it looks like everything is in order.

 

mine is coming along , but I’ve  got a ghost in the drum kit 😳

 

for some bizzare reason, half way in the intro, a random bar of drums bursts in , there is no midi in the track , and the only way I can do anything with it, is to kill the volume at the place it kicks in . I haven’t the faintest idea where why it is being triggered 

well suspenders no longer 

 

 

There are no pranks here, it is the April Composition Challenge, or as Mr Smalls would describe it... Compo-Compo 

 

I say no pranks, but as the eclectic @Leonard Smalls was the worthy winner for March , we might have expected a left field choice of picture , but even so.....be prepared to be enlightened!

 

In Lenny's own words...

 

 

"G'day!

Looks like folks voted for The Funk! So piccy here:"

 

 

I was perusing my science periodicals (as if!) and came across this (*) which reminded me of an attempted jazzy jam from a number of years ago. The organiser handed everyone a bit of paper with abstract colours on it and said "we'll be using this as the basis for our improvisation"... We made a proper racket but I did meet a really good trombonist!

 

 

*it's actually a wavelet periodigram showing Geomagnetically Induced Currents in power distribution lines (colour indicates power) as a function of time... It demonstrates the problems "solar weather" can cause in our modern techy stuff - there was actually a 9 hour power outage in Canada as a direct result of GICs!

 

 

 

 

Well there you go, a little learning along the way 

Usual simple rules apply 

 

✅ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline.

❌ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on

❌ No Bagpipes, I think they might cause a few GIC's , but you can go and play them in Canada! 

❌ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you..

 

Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 24th April

 

A line or two of blurb as usual for the vote thread will be super duper smashing lovely. 

 

Good luck, Have fun 

 

 

Well done Mr Smalls , a proper banging toon , well deserved vote catcher .

let me have a pic and I’ll set the new one up tonight.

@MoonBassAIpha took a deserved win for February and of course, had the honour of the picture choice for March.

 

He Chose , he Posted and he thus Mused...

 

"I've been thinking about the photo and this came to mind. I  was working a short contract in Oxford with a group who make instruments for satellite and lander missions and had a spell in the clean room. I  thought this could suggest more sinister stories though..."

 

Thus inspiring the following pieces for your entertainment .

 

 

 

Please choose your favourite  3  tracks and vote accordingly 

 

 

1  @Baloney Balderdash  As last time recorded through this setup (bar the added Orange Juice overdrive in place of clean blend with the Turbo RAT distortion) :

 

 

 

 

 

2  @Leonard Smalls   My song is meant as accompaniment for our Grand Theft Auto hero's getaway which was top-fuelled by nicking the large cylinder of nitro (*)...

 

 

 

 

 

 

3  @AndyTravis  In my head it worked…I’d best describe it as a challenging listen

 

 

 

 

 

4 Lurksalot  Its a soundscape as a theme to a scene that may be transpiring 

 

 

 

 

 

5  @Jean-Luc Pickguard  Our gowned-up hero is actually an undercover Roman Catholic scientist working under direction of the Pope in the top secret research laboratorium deep below the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican City. In the Eucharist Magnification experiment, scientific methods are used to electronically multiply the benediction beam, and exponentially amplify and concentrate the consecration field generated during the sacrament of the Eucharist. The objective of this experiment is to transubstantiate a loaf of sourdough bread into the reanimated head of the Messiah.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6  @alibabu  This months entry is more of a short interlude than a full song, but it is a start! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7  @upside downer A dystopian tale of chilling proportions. An exploratory way of dealing with miscreants is underway, conducted by scientists at a secret governmental location. It's all so clinical and a frosty reception awaits the poor souls who are the recipients of this cryotherapy.

 

 

 

 

 

8  @MoonBassAlpha   There's a very non-benign alien secured in the lab. We found an annoying frequency that it doesn't like either.
It's dark sticky mass squirms in discomfort until it expires. Or does it...

 

 

 

 

Well there we have it, fantastic stuff yet again!

 

Vote for your favourite 3 

 

Voting closes midnight 31st March 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great stuff , I’ll get on the vote thread when I get back from work.

 

Here is mine

 

Its a soundscape as a theme to a scene that may be transpiring 

 

No great technical things to say , piano main with undercurrents from a couple of synths, a few percussive throw ins and some sound FX from my phone.

 

 

 

Next ticketed gig is Red Rum Club …at Aintree 16th May 

I’ll edit it for you Andy when I fire up the PC , I don’t like to try it on the mobile , it’s too easy to F it up 

3 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

Is it allowed to swap out the track I contributed with with another recording?

 

Same track, just a different recording.

 

 

 

 No problem choosing a different recording as long as it is done in the time frame of the challenge . 

10 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

At his age?

Well , I say danced , his shoulders moved with a reasonably rhythmic resonance 😁

20 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Some time in the future, but going to see Wolfgang Flur of Kraftwerk in Chester in September. Shall get my pogoing boots on!

I did a little bit of digging on him , but to be honest I didn’t find much that I could handle more than 10 minutes of. 
The 10 minutes was OK but I’d had enough, I’d be back in the Golden Eagle after 11 mins 😁
it also looked like he just pressed play on his laptop then danced a bit 😁

 

I’ll be in Nantwich at some point over Easter , there is normally a good day to be had at the festival visiting stages and pubs