June Composition Challenge

[lurksalot]

These months just seem to fly by, but then, we get get to hear the great new jazzfunkpunk from @Leonard Smalls who has been on fire again.

So its time to fire up the DAW once again and show how the following picture inspires us.

 

"Here's a pic. it's of some UFOs I saw while on a plane to Geneva a few years ago."

 

 

 

I guess that is just out of this world!

 

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

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

❌ No Bagpipes, Please , please, will no-one think of the children. 

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

 

Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 24th June ... Which of course, in reality, means tea time on teh 25th 

 

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

 

Good luck, Have fun 

 

 

Edited June 1 by lurksalot

[Al Nico]

amongst Us

Inspired as we all are by alien music, I created this short piece in Canis Minor, building sounds on synths that portray typical sounds heard during alien encounters, including deep low bass.

All dynamics have been removed to capture and portray the natural sound, feel and anxiety of being probed in a busy alien space craft hospital.

 

 

Edited June 7 by Al Nico

[Stub Mandrel]

Placeholder...

[Leonard Smalls]

Looks like I may be doing something slightly punky with my own vocalisations!

[Chiliwailer]

Thanks to @Leonard Smalls amazing experience and photo...

 

Jammin' with E.T. -  is inspired by how I imagine it'd sound when jamming with E.T. at 30,000 feet. 

 

 

Edited June 15 by Chiliwailer

[Baloney Balderdash]

So I put on Syd Barrett's spectacles, and this is what happened... :

 

As one of the fathers of psych folk and lo-fi, here's an improvised instrumental lo-fi psychedelic folk piece in honor of the genius that is Syd Barrett.

 

First take improvisation, played on my 28.6" scale 4 string Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, equipped with just a single bridge EMG Geezer Butler J pickup, from the P/J set, wired directly to the output jack socket, and tuned in B standard tuning (baritone tuning), recorded through my "amp-less" setup directly into my Zoom H4n handheld recorder, and only edited through a simple Wav editor.

 

Edited June 15 by Baloney Balderdash

[Baloney Balderdash]

2 hours ago, Chiliwailer said:

Thanks to @Leonard Smalls amazing experience and photo...

 

Jammin' with E.T. -  is inspired by how I imagine it'd sound when jamming with E.T. at 30,000 feet. 

 

 

I love this!

 

Sound very Air -esque.

 

Edited June 15 by Baloney Balderdash

[Chiliwailer]

13 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

I love this!

 

Sound very Air -esque.

 

Thanks man, really appreciated, was fun to make. 
 

Liking your jam too, think I can hear some Pentangle too in between Syd’s psychedelics 😊

[Baloney Balderdash]

10 hours ago, Chiliwailer said:

Thanks man, really appreciated, was fun to make. 
 

Liking your jam too, think I can hear some Pentangle too in between Syd’s psychedelics 😊

Thank you!

 

Honestly probably sounds more like Pentangle than Syd, but hey Spectacles does kind of rhyme on Pentangle, so it all makes sense. 

 

Edited June 15 by Baloney Balderdash

[Al Nico]

 

 

@Chiliwailer Jammin' with E.T

I like the mood of this and the unpredictable but always resolving chords. I found it soothing and dreamy.

 

@Baloney Balderdash Syd Barrett's spectacles

The honesty of the performance in this track comes over well. I like it's unique personal style. 

[Chiliwailer]

13 hours ago, Al Nico said:

 

 

@Chiliwailer Jammin' with E.T

I like the mood of this and the unpredictable but always resolving chords. I found it soothing and dreamy.

 

 

Thanks man, appreciated. 
I think between us we’ve created a balance given your (really pro sounding) track represents probe anxiety 😊 

[Al Nico]

9 hours ago, Chiliwailer said:

Thanks man, appreciated. 
I think between us we’ve created a balance given your (really pro sounding) track represents probe anxiety 😊 

Ha ha. You're welcome. Thank you. It was a lucky choice this month. I am a bit of a one trick production pony.

I like sound design, and dubstep only uses one chord so no song writing involved. I look forward to future challenges using less familiar tools and more notes.

[Chiliwailer]

12 hours ago, Al Nico said:

Ha ha. You're welcome. Thank you. It was a lucky choice this month. I am a bit of a one trick production pony.

I like sound design, and dubstep only uses one chord so no song writing involved. I look forward to future challenges using less familiar tools and more notes.

Looking forward to hear your next tunes 👍

[Leonard Smalls]

A punkyfunky thing based on a true story told by a lovely old man (Herr Wilhelm Lügner) in my local pub...

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

I can't enter this as it's several years old, but it fits the theme and is a bit different, so just for fun:

 

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 17:42 by Stub Mandrel
before the apostrophe police strike...

[Chiliwailer]

11 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I can't enter this as it's several years old, but it fits the theme and is a bit different, so just for fun:

 

 

 

 

I think I remember that tune, was it the April 2017 comp? 

[Stub Mandrel]

3 hours ago, Chiliwailer said:

I think I remember that tune, was it the April 2017 comp? 

 

It's possible, I don't remember if I entered it, but I know it was pre-covid. I recorded it while house sitting for my brother. 

[Chiliwailer]

3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

It's possible, I don't remember if I entered it, but I know it was pre-covid. I recorded it while house sitting for my brother. 

Well, I'm not stalking you - that date was a bit specific 😂

 

I entered this comp for a few months in 2017 (but then stopped when I started a degree and later lost access to a DAW) - there was a comp I entered with a picture of an alien invasion, and I seem to remember your tune from that. 

[Baloney Balderdash]

22 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

A punkyfunky thing based on a true story told by a lovely old man (Herr Wilhelm Lügner) in my local pub...

 

 

Ha, ha, cool...

 

Sounds like a Mr. Bungle demo from the Disco Volante album that never made the cut.

[Al Nico]

@Leonard Smalls That bass line - is a great bass line.

[upside downer]

Hooray! Three days before the curfew! It even has words!

 

Anything can happen on a plane. You could drink a hot brew, have a snooze or ingest some top quality drugs whilst watching unidentified flying objects out the window.

 

 

Words below (hidden). I'm sure you'll agree that any cobras listening would quickly grow hands so as to punch the air with glee at the Dylanesque turns of phrase.

 

Spoiler

Hey! I just saw a flying saucer

Being awkwardly steered by Geoffrey Chaucer

Now it seems that old Geoff is a space explorer

I'm sitting on a violin

With Brian Jones and Anne Boleyn

The LSD is kicking in

 

UFO!

UFO, are you friend or foe?

UFO, are you friend or foe?

 

Yeah! I'm flying to Geneva

Anne said that I must never leave her

Brian's moaning again 'cus he's having a seizure

 

He grabbed his pills then dropped an E

Anne dislocated her right knee

I turned into a chimpanzee

 

UFO!

UFO, are you friend or foe?

UFO, are you friend or foe?

 

Instruments? Er, Westfields. Westfield Les Paul copy and Westfield violin bass fuzzed up using a Digitech RP80 pedal with a Roland amp. Oh, and MT Drums. Recorded with those old troopers Wavepad and Audacity.

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by upside downer
Miles Jupp's laughter

[Stub Mandrel]

Err. Yes. Hmmm.

[upside downer]

29 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Err. Yes. Hmmm.

 

Thank you, David Jacobs 😁