YY music compo - Feb/March

[gribbles]

Seem like Baggypants has dropped off the radar - hope all is OK.

So, in order to keep thing going (and to align with Zoot's eagerness ), we'll drop to the fallback of using the winner of January's photo comp as our inspiration.

Here's the winning photo by Goatfoam:



In order to perhaps get a few more entries, we'll keep this competition open until the 26th March - at which point the voting will begin for a week.

[Zoot]

[Entry withdrawn by Zoot]

[(o)(o)]

That image does conjure up ideas. I realise it's a weather station but it looks futuristic...

Got to reinstall my entire production suite on the new mac (I did end up with that one from the other thread.. it's got problems too ) which dispite 'installer managers' seems to be getting more of a PITA than ever before? I will endeavour to create something mental for this months comp. Thinking the other day actually, why not plug the V-drums into the guitar amp? The electric kits could have a bit of gumpf! Haven't played the pads for a good few months.. house is chaotic.. frustrating..

[RiK]

Ok, first stab:


https://soundcloud.com/rik777/unknowable-first

Play on proper speakers or headphones.
Lappy or phone speaker ain't going to cut it..

[gribbles]

Ok, first stab

Nice precog work, dude.

I like it. Gives me the impression of things just under the surface. Seen, but not seen. Some nice subtle sounds moving about in this. 'Tis good. [edit - just listened again an noticed the breath-like sound at 4:11. Heh.]

Anyway, here's a flag in the sand (our snow, I guess) from me.

Was looking at the picture, and I just got the impression of it taking ages to walk to this spot. Through heavy snow that's going to be tiring. The feeling of being breathless in the bitter cold - trying to catch your breath in icy air, watching your own air condense in front of you. I had no idea why we were here. Something to do with the building, maybe. dunno. So an unknown. OK, throw in a dollop of Scadi-noir drama vibes and we're somewhere not too unpleasant.

Well, that's what I was thinking - you'll be the judge of whether that's what came out!

Still a bit RAF - needs some polishing. But wanted to get something down as I've been a bit shit recently

https://soundcloud.com/gribbles/breathe

[Zoot]

Here's my entry for this month. It's all about a mouse (probably running around that frosty building looking for food.

HOUSE MOUSE

[gribbles]

Tidied up the timings, chopped a little here and generally tarted up.

I declare it finished:

https://soundcloud.com/gribbles/breathe-finished

[(o)(o)]

Some of these were deployed : http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87787

[(o)(o)]

OMG what have SoundCloud done to the encoding

My track was uploaded as uncompressed PCM 44/16. Try A/Bing the difference. Shocking!



(Link to the raw wav is on that page)

[gravy]

https://soundcloud.com/gyratory/snowz

Might do some more on this, not sure if I like it, it's a bit too Jarrey

[RiK]

OMG what have SoundCloud done to the encoding

Well basically they halved the bitrate, and subsequently yep, it sounds shite now.

Problem though, what's the realistic alternative?

[venusian]

Stuffing something through the door just as it closes.

https://soundcloud.com/martin-young-393168957/melt