WOW listen in, February Composition Challenge Voting Time, Listen In !

[lurksalot]

This months photo got the creative juices flowing very well... In fact I had to concentrate very hard putting this thread together,  I normally listen through again as I am collating it, but I got drawn in to all the tunes far too much 

 

The choice of photo was by @Wolfram who, most impressively, took the win with his debut entry.

 

"I created this image with DALL-E, a natural language artificial intelligence image generation system, from the prompt: "a photograph of two convertible red Ferraris racing through a dystopian city at night with lens flare and atmospheric neon lighting". Take inspiration from the subject of the photo, or from the transformational impact AI is about to have across the creative industries - good or bad? "

 

 

 

Have a listen through these and some will amaze you, really!

As usual , vote for your 3 favourites before midnight on 28th Feb 

 

 

1  @Dad3353   There are those that praise highly the musicality of the Ferrari exhaust notes; there are even specialists whose sole task is to tune the beggars. I'll let you judge as to the success of their labours...
A collection of sound samples, carefully crafted into a short symphony, with some pertinent tyre squeals for good measure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2  @NickD   The picture evoked memories of the computer games of my youth, so I tried to cast my mind back to the kinds of soundtracks those primitive programs would have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3  @Leonard Smalls  When I was a kid in a small village in Cheshire AI meant a chap with a rubber glove impregnating livestock... And if we're talking about gettin' jiggy with the Artificial Insemination Man there's only one choice, Funk!

 

 

 

 

 

 

4  Lurksalot  Quite often you hear a song about cars that sounds a bit cheesy. so here is a proper cheesy one, Ferraris with cheese, Italian cheese.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 @Doctor J  Driving Ferraris around a dystopian city cost me a lots of 10p pieces in the 80's. Beating the clock, getting time bonuses and moving to the next stage were all that mattered, accompanied by 8-bit hard rock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 @upside downer   A late night cruise by two artificial Ferraris through the mean streets of Artificial City to an artificial electro-synthpop soundtrack. No strings were plucked in the making of this melodic, mood music.

 

 

 

 

 

 

7  @Nail Soup  I've gone for the boy racer angle, although with a punky sound not traditionally heard from such a vehicle..... so I present "Ford Cortina with a Home Made Flame Job".  

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 @SH73  Here is my entry, Instrumental  song recorded Tuesday morning, bass recorded Tuesday evening, mixed and mastered Tuesday evening.

 

 

 

 

 

9 @Wolfram  Two harmonised guitars race bumper to bumper in a high-octane charge, wrapped around a song musing on the imminent demise of this breed of vehicle.... and perhaps their human drivers too? I present "Endangered Species".

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 @AndyTravis  A tension between rhythms, like tension between how much technology takes over, a constant push and pull…

 

 

 

That is a fantastic set of tunes, you may well find 3 votes insufficient , but that's just the way it rolls 

 

Get those 3 votes in before midnight on 28th February folks 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 24, 2023 by lurksalot

[AndyTravis]

Only gave me option to do 1 vote? 🤔

[lurksalot]

57 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Only gave me option to do 1 vote? 🤔

Doh , I’ll sort that cheers Andy 

[lurksalot]

Sorted

 

[AndyTravis]

12 hours ago, lurksalot said:

Sorted

 

Hiya mate - I can’t re-vote with my other two - so my vote may be have to be discounted in the interests of fairness?

 

unless a mod can undo my vote?

[lurksalot]

57 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Hiya mate - I can’t re-vote with my other two - so my vote may be have to be discounted in the interests of fairness?

 

unless a mod can undo my vote?

I’ll try some jiggery-pokery tomorrow 😁

[lurksalot]

On 25/02/2023 at 00:11, lurksalot said:

I’ll try some jiggery-pokery tomorrow 😁

That one now sorted , get your last minute decisions made and voted for, not long to go 😁

[SH73]

Voted, luckily realised that February has mostly 28 days

[Doctor J]

Congratulations, Nick, richly deserved in a very strong month 👍🏻

[upside downer]

Bravo @NickD 👏 great tune up against some other belters 🙂

[Nicko]

Damn these short months - I missed the vote but it wouldn't have made a difference.  Well done Nick.

[NickD]

Thanks Folks!

 

Genuinely surprised to have squeaked this one in a really strong field, particularly with a mostly electronic track, which is not something I really know how to do.

 

I'll dig out a pic for Lurks as soon as I get a minute!

[Dad3353]

And the winner is ...

 

@NickD..!

 

Here, then, is your Winner's Certificates (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ...

 

BC_Chal_Cert_2023_02.pdf

 

... which look like this (but bigger, of course..!)…

 

[Wolfram]

Congratulations @NickD - great tune and really took me back to my Amiga days!

[NickD]

13 minutes ago, Wolfram said:

Congratulations @NickD - great tune and really took me back to my Amiga days!

 

Damn!

 

I was going for Sega Megadrive at least!😂

[lurksalot]

Well done @NickD a great tune, and has been said, a very competitive month .

I’ll post up the March challenge after I have settled myself back home 😁

[lurksalot]

well , no time to rest , there's compositions to be composing