August Composition Challenge - GET WRITING!

[Skol303]

August's Composition Challenge is on...

Here’s the image for your inspiration, chosen by last month's winner, upside downer:

Rules:

✅ Check you have permission to use any samples

✅ Keep it under 5 minutes and write it during the month of the challenge

❌ No funny business

The deadline for entries is midnight on Saturday 24th August.

[fingers211]

Nice one U-D,

Can't stop, I'm on the run from the Recording forum Mafia !!

[Dad3353]

Keep running... 

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Edited August 1, 2019 by Dad3353

[Dad3353]

Here is my contribution to the August 2019 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by a picture chosen by one of the previous joint winners: Upside Downer.
A bare bones composition somewhat sparce, with, I hope, a quizical atmosphere. 
The essentials were teased out of EZ Keys, underpinned with a Trillian acoustic bass. Some horn playing, naturally, by Roland. The purring cat is hidden behind some royalty-free atmospheric pad samples; a dose of Ozone finishes it all off.
Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy.

 

 

[GisserD]

That Ribcage sounds amazing!

 

[Dad3353]

... and the teeth chattering, and knees knocking..!

[Mornats]

This looks right up my street  I'm gonna try and make a return for this one but no promises!

Now, where did I put that bagpipe VST...?!

[lurksalot]

I’ve got a tune down , it needs fluffing a bit but it also needs vocals and I’m getting a bit sick of my own voice , I really don’t understand how you guys love my stuff so much .

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ll get my coat 

[Dad3353]

[Mornats]

40 minutes ago, lurksalot said:

 it needs fluffing

[lurksalot]

7 minutes ago, Mornats said:

Hmm 

let me think , it needs picking up , playing with and bouncing around to make it feel bigger , 

 

just like my pillows 

[SH73]

@Dad3353

Are you planing to start a sticky thread on mixing and mastering? BTW very subtle composition this month 👍

[Dad3353]

2 hours ago, SH73 said:

@Dad3353

Are you planing to start a sticky thread on mixing and mastering? BTW very subtle composition this month 👍

No, sir, I am not, and any 'planing' I do is down to officially-prescribed medicinal drugs..! 

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No, seriously, there is already a splendid 'sticky' topic giving bucket-loads of advice on home recording in general; any 'mixing and mastering' tips would, I think, find a natural home there. I'd post tips there myself, but for lack of competence. Disclaimer: I'm an old, half-deaf dummy with limited skills but almost unlimited time to devote (until my Last Trump is sounded, naturally...), and, once I get an idea in my head, I just work it through until I'm satisfied that it won't get any better. My 'mixing' consists of listening, then listening again; repeat ad nauseum until I like it. I use 3db steps when altering levels, as any less makes no difference to my cloth ears. For mastering, I used to cheat by using AAMS, a mastering software suite with a whole lot of presets; I'd just choose the genre I thought best suited. Nowadays, I'm using Ozone, with another set of presets, with which I do the same. Yes, it's lazy, but my competence stretches no further than that.
As for 'subtle': that's the first time I've had that used regarding any of my offerings, and I'll take it as a huge compliment (such is my vanity...). It's far from the usual epithets associated with my contributions. It can't be down to my failing hearing; maybe I'm just getting a little bit luckier..? Many thanks, in any case.

[lurksalot]

OK then , you asked for it, bass, guitars and vocal by me , drums and piano by something that knows far more about this than I do, the play it on its own piano ! 

some stuff from freesound which pops up towards the end 

Enjoy , its my Birthday 

 

 

[Dad3353]

[lurksalot]

11 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

Thank you for the thought, but it’s not actually my birthday Douglas, it’s just my take on the photo , I was looking for a way to introduce some smut into the proceedings and found it via the birthday present 

[Dad3353]

I'll repeat the post on September the 10th, then (and I didn't notice any smut...  ).

[lurksalot]

8 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

I'll repeat the post on September the 10th, then (and I didn't notice any smut...  ).

Oh No , it must be a bit too subtle 

I don’t know how to do one of those spoiler things on the phone , so I’ll keep schtum for the moment, when I get back to the big machine I’ll try to explain 

 

[upside downer]

Just in time. This one features a ridiculously slowed down sitar which is the drone/backing track, effects, thumb piano, bowed psaltery, an ol' Satellite bass, some brief sampled drum kit hits and a normal speeded, detuned sitar too. Vocals by Beyoncé, ha, no, by Mrs UD. It's a toe-tapping dancefloor filler!*

 

 

 

*Please note - it's far, far, far from a toe-tapping dancefloor filler.

 

[Skol303]

Sorry lads, I’m camping ⛺️!

Will launch the voting thread tomorrow morning.

[lurksalot]

AS Skol is tent bound in the back of beyond, I'll hoist up the voting thread

VOTING IS GO,