July , Tis the time for another Composition Challenge

[lurksalot]

Who'd have thunk it , I got to share the top step this month with @upside downer and @Baloney Balderdash congratulations.

 

As it was a first time for Mr Balderdash , he has had the choice of image for us to work on and compose to, thus...

 

"Here is my suggestion to the image for July. A mystic contortionist, admittedly AI generated (but on my intricate description):"

 

 

 

✅ 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, I think they would get tangled. 

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

 

Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 25th July ... Which in reality, means an early one on the 26th , unless I'm working on a weekend!  

 

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

 

Good luck, Have fun 

 

 

Edited July 1 by lurksalot

[Stub Mandrel]

Something themed on a wandering finger, perhaps? One seems to have migrated from left to right...

[upside downer]

I'm more worried about the old boy with the sickles for hands in the background. What if he needs to pick his nose?

[lurksalot]

or an older Lineker overhead kicking a planet 

[Stub Mandrel]

20 minutes ago, upside downer said:

I'm more worried about the old boy with the sickles for hands in the background. What if he needs to pick his nose?

 

Funnily enough, I rewatched Time Bandits last night, and he was in that:

 

[Baloney Balderdash]

Flip Joint (The Contortionist).... Post Math Rock?

 

Solo bass, single track, 2nd take, instrumental, 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 Wednesday at 14:05 by Baloney Balderdash

[Lord Sausage]

I'm gonna try again this month. I have a bit of time. Gonna go with an idea of twisting something as it goes along and have some mystical elements.

[Al Nico]

Production Tools.

MT Power 2 drums - Donation ware - 120bpm
Little wooden Bajolele, Double tracked and panned stereo (SM57).
Claps - Hands x 4, (SM 57) panned wide layered with centre clap sample 
Guitar - Budget Jackson V with Schaller hot vintage neck humbucker into Line 6 virtual plexi and 4 x 12.
Bass - Spector with EMG-SSD passive with real solder bobbles - compressed.
Synthesizer - Xfer Serum - played on PC keyboard .

Line 6 USB1 audio interface - Pentium 2nd Gen PC - Ableton 9.

 

I already recorded the ukes a few months back, so built a track using them. The image drew me to imagine a futuristic fairground organ style circus sound. Happy tune with running bass, side snare and clapping.

Key of C, the happiest key. I can't really say I wrote the tune, more fitted together a load of typical musical clichés, and probably some nursey rhymes and music I've probably heard before, until I had a big happy futuristic showbiz extravaganza. I had fun making it. Left it a bit sloppy too because it seems to work like that? Very different to what I usually make.