September Composition 2014 - A new beginning

[the boy]

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I was going to say, it's [i]very[/i] subtle.
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Lol..... You can get away with very little around here believe me.

[Skol303]

Managed to get some time on this yesterday afternoon around mortgage and house moving shenanigans... will hopefully have it finished tonight, just in the nick of time!

[Bilbo]

You and me both, Skol. Trying to get a date for completion as we type. Next month is all but a write off for me BC-wise as my new studio arragement is to be an outbuilding that is not yet built!! October's entry could be a Zoom H1 recording of me humming an idea!!

[the boy]

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You and me both, Skol. Trying to get a date for completion as we type. Next month is all but a write off for me BC-wise as my new studio arragement is to be an outbuilding that is not yet built!! October's entry could be a Zoom H1 recording of me humming an idea!!
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Sounds awesome........(zoom h1).

[Skol303]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1379945198' post='2218523']You and me both, Skol. Trying to get a date for completion as we type. Next month is all but a write off for me BC-wise as my new studio arragement is to be an outbuilding that is not yet built!! October's entry could be a Zoom H1 recording of me humming an idea!!
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Fingers crossed for you Rob. You're ahead of us... we've got our end of the chain sorted out and are now waiting for our buyer to do the same. So there's still plenty of scope for it to go belly up!

Your outbuilding sounds like a great plan. I'm hoping for a shed at least

[SpaceChick]

Lost the time and the plot this month.... And I had an idea for a cheery ditty about the man on his chair....

[Skol303]

Just managed to get something done in time... phew.

I started this process on Sunday morning by scouring YouTube for examples of Arabic music, inspired by Garry's choice of photo. I stumbled across a video of someone singing an 'Adhan' - an Islamic call to prayer - in the midst of a gun battle in Syria, which really grabbed my attention. I'm not a religious person, but it was a very moving clip that sent me in search of recordings of other Adhan, which I ended up using to write this month's piece.

It's all been slung together in about 5-6 hours - which is a quick turnaround for me! - so it's a little rough around the edges. But heh.

https://soundcloud.com/skollob/adhan

Cheers to everyone who entered this month. I'm looking forward to listening to them all

Paul

[the boy]

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Just managed to get something done in time... phew.

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Sounds awesome, well done.

[Skol303]

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[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1380017781' post='2219467']Sounds awesome, well done.[/quote]

Cheers! It's a bit messy, but hopefully it gets the across the idea of 'calm and chaos', which is what I was trying to capture.

[RockfordStone]

sorry i missed this one guys, been through some sh*t with work, so ive ended up changing jobs, hopefully i should return in the next one or the one after

[Skol303]

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sorry i missed this one guys, been through some sh*t with work, so ive ended up changing jobs, hopefully i should return in the next one or the one after
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No problem Rob! Good to hear you've got the work situation sorted mate.

[lurksalot]

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1379983859' post='2219219']
Just managed to get something done in time... phew.

I started this process on Sunday morning by scouring YouTube for examples of Arabic music, inspired by Garry's choice of photo. I stumbled across a video of someone singing an 'Adhan' - an Islamic call to prayer - in the midst of a gun battle in Syria, which really grabbed my attention. I'm not a religious person, but it was a very moving clip that sent me in search of recordings of other Adhan, which I ended up using to write this month's piece.

It's all been slung together in about 5-6 hours - which is a quick turnaround for me! - so it's a little rough around the edges. But heh.

[url="https://soundcloud.com/skollob/adhan"]https://soundcloud.com/skollob/adhan[/url]

Cheers to everyone who entered this month. I'm looking forward to listening to them all

Paul
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A great Idea , and one I pursued myself for a while , I found some beautiful sang prayers , I read them as Azans , but maybe its the same only different ! I just wasn't sure of the the protocols about using them , I think you have a better search method than me . I will listen to them all later

[Skol303]

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1380028577' post='2219731']A great Idea , and one I pursued myself for a while , I found some beautiful sang prayers , I read them as Azans , but maybe its the same only different ! I just wasn't sure of the the protocols about using them , I think you have a better search method than me . I will listen to them all later[/quote]

Great minds think alike! Well, your great mind and my addled one...

Adhan/Azan - same thing, depending on the country (Adhan in Syria). In terms of copyright permission, stuff on YouTube is generally a no-no unless it's stated as being Creative Commons or you ask permission from the person who owns copyright (I've done this myself and it's never yet failed - folks seem very obliging).

My own favourite source of copyright-free material is http://www.freesound.org/

For this track I also used the Al Jazeera News Creative Commons Repository http://archive.org/details/aljazeeramedia

My old habit of digging through crates of vinyl in search of samples has basically been transferred to sites like these... Much cheaper but no less time consuming!

[lurksalot]

Cheers Paul , I will try to remember them , but it is one of the things I like about the competition, you get to do a fair bit of research and listen to some things that would normally just float by .