Composition Challenge #14 - (3 Months Long) (Curated by Steamabacus)

Antique_Guitars

Hola Amigos! Time for round 14 of the Fretboard Challenge competition!

The competition:

Every 3 months there will be a competition, it revolves around individuals or groups of forum members composing or covering songs based on a set of rules or guidelines laid out for that particular competition.

For full rules please read here: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/8029/fretboard-challenge-rules#latest


Submission Details

All recordings will need to be sent via email to fretboardchallenge AT gmail.com

All songs will then be upload to the Fretboard Challenge SoundCloud page here - https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard

Songs must be submitted in an MP3 format and you need to provide a picture for your track

FRETBOARD CHALLENGE #14

Fretboard Challenge #14 starts NOW! - Submission deadline -  Midnight 15th August 2016

Voting starts 17th August 2016 - Voting ends 11.30pm 30th August 2016

A new voting system will be in place for this challenge, voters can pick their top 3 favorite entries.

First choice gets 5 points - Second choice gets 3 points - Third choice gets 1 point

Entry with the most points wins.

Winner will be announced just before midnight 30th August 2016

Guidelines (Thanks to Steamabacus)

"Oblique Strategies"

You have been asked to contribute a musical piece to a West bank
music festival 'curated' by Brian Eno. There are no limitations to what
you produce - song, instrumental, soundscape, installation, phone
app, ballet ... all Brian asks is that you write something new.

Oh, and one other thing - Brian gets to choose the title of your piece.

More accurately, Brian will randomly draw from his jolly clever Oblique
Strategies cards to generate a title for the piece - whatever the card
says, that's the title for your musical piece. Don't argue, Brian knows
best.


So, to recap...

1) Brian chooses your tune's title - draw an Oblique Strategy from
http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

2) Write something new (any genre, any key, do what you want) 
based on that title.

(And, if anybody asks, it was all your idea - as well as being very
clever, Brian is also exceptionally shy)

Deadline

Midnight (UK time) 15th August 2016.

Prizes

The prize for this competition will be a brand new

Vox StompLab IIG Guitar Multi-Effects with Expression Pedal

fnpt

"The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten" I've got a tittle already!

kin

My title is ..Put in earplugs.... Brian has obviously heard my stuff before

Fretwired

Ghost echoes ....

Soundscape time ...

BahHumbug

@steamabacus I salute you.

1.  Great idea.

2.  I had no idea that there was an oblique strategies website.  Silly me.  Still at least I will now have direction for the rest of my life.

I was given 'look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them'.

Should be interesting.......

steamabacus

Well, mine is "Is there something missing?" Intriguing.

xSkarloey

There's also an Android phone app of Oblique Strategies.

Mine, duly drawn, is 'Consider Different Fading Systems'.

If you hear nothing from me as usual on this comp, then consider me duly faded.

stratman3142

I'll go for: "Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element"

steamabacus

I've just noticed something. When I wrote up the challenge remit I had a bit of a brain fart (I was ill, that's my excuse) - in my mind I was thinking " South Bank" (of the Thames) but I seem to have written West Bank!

Mind you, an arty music festival in the West Bank (of the Jordan) has an extra socio/political edge that Southwark just can't quite match.

Sporky

I got "Would anyone want it?", which to me is a jolly sad title. I like it.

markv

"Cascades"

Cue extensive abuse of delays.

xSkarloey

steamabacus;1100911" said:

I've just noticed something. When I wrote up the challenge remit I had a bit of a brain fart (I was ill, that's my excuse) - in my mind I was thinking " South Bank" (of the Thames) but I seem to have written West Bank!



Mind you, an arty music festival in the West Bank (of the Jordan) has an extra socio/political edge that Southwark just can't quite match.

West Bank?! Lil bit of politics there ladies and gennlemen!

I feel a middle eastern theme coming on...

Pass me an oud, someone.

kuryakin85

Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate

Here we go!

Grunfeld

Use filters

Ummm okay. 

DulcetJones

I got "A Line Has Two Sides", something I know about what with having crossed the line a few times in my life....

kuryakin85

pretty much done on mine, going on my Soundcloud tonight while I sleep on it. See if I hate it by the morning!

thecolourbox

Towards the insignificant

Sounds quite fitting for me. Definitely going to finish something for this one, definitely favouring West Bank to South Bank though - I much prefer tumultuous volatile middle eastern regions to London

Fretwired

kuryakin85 said:

pretty much done on mine, going on my Soundcloud tonight while I sleep on it. See if I hate it by the morning!

Utter rubbish mate I wouldn't submit it ... ;-)

Only joking .. I liked that, especially the gentle picking into totally insane .. have a wow ... the standard is going to be high ..

kuryakin85

@Fretwired much appreciated buddy, couple of tweaks and I'm happy!

MrStoob

I made a title just out of interest (unlikely to enter) - "Would anybody want it?"

That could certainly lend well to some 70s fusiony Zappa-ry nonsense.  

TTony

"be dirty"

????