SEPTEMBER Composition Challenge

[lurksalot]

Happy 1st of meteorological Autumn 

 

A very tight call for August , 1 vote splitting the pack, and with what looked like me giving that vote, congrats to @Chiliwailer, now on a double, seeking the elusive hat-trick I guess,

 

Anyway, back to the business in hand , with the chosen image for your delight and delectation, he explains...

 

 

"Autumn is coming in with it's stunning sunsets, so given that my photo-choosing creative mojo has dropped under the horizon here's a nice pic that even has some Northern Lights, sea, stars, rocks, and a pensive dude for your muse..."

 

 

 

 

✅ 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 suffer from the magnetic radiation and sound a bit off.

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

 

Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 24th September ... Which in reality, means teatime 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 

 

must dash , Victoria Coren Mitchell is holding a pose for me in the kitchen .

 

 

 

 

 

[Chiliwailer]

Aw thanks @lurksalot - good to know it wasn’t my Mum’s vote 😊

[upside downer]

17 minutes ago, lurksalot said:

Victoria Coren Mitchell is holding a pose for me in the kitchen

 

Ooh, you lucky devil!

[Baloney Balderdash]

(Edit!!! I actually made 2 versions out of this, and changed my mind, so I swapped the song to enter this challenge for the second version)

 

And done:

 

"An alternate take of an ending scene for a fictive sci-fi western movie"...

 

Solo bass, single track, 2nd take, improvisation, played on my 28.6" scale 4 string Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, converted to sort of a 4 string baritone slide guitar, tuned in an open B tuning, recorded through my "amp-less" setup directly into my Zoom H4n handheld recorder, and only edited through a simple Wav editor.

 

Edited September 2 by Baloney Balderdash

[Leonard Smalls]

Captain Kirk has got a date on the Enterprise Holodeck with Nurse Chapel in his favourite romantic piano bar on Aurora Prime. However, alien microbes have got into the matrix so when Kirk goes to find Christine admiring the view from the bar's private beach he finds she's actually a bloke called Derek from Redditch... 

 

 

This month I've sort of followed the Baloney route, to some extent! I programmed a manic 150bpm drum track, and did a 1 take bass improvisation over the top. Then I stuck 2 tracks of piano "accompaniment" on it and 3 tracks of wah guitar noodlings.

Drums programmed using Impulse pads triggering identical midi sounds from EZ Drummer (Clyde Stubblefied kit), and Ableton's Arizona and Exposed kits. Bass is Sandberg DI-ed via Focusrite (double tracked, touch of delay on 1 track). Piano is Ableton's Grand Piano, and guitar is a battered Strat with clean Helix wah and Bias FX bluesdrive. Everything is rolled in Ozone 9 and Neutron 3.