April Composition challenge No-fool , Honest , its here

[lurksalot]

There are no pranks here, it is the April Composition Challenge, or as Mr Smalls would describe it... Compo-Compo 

 

I say no pranks, but as the eclectic @Leonard Smalls was the worthy winner for March , we might have expected a left field choice of picture , but even so.....be prepared to be enlightened!

 

In Lenny's own words...

 

 

"G'day!

Looks like folks voted for The Funk! So piccy here:"

 

 

I was perusing my science periodicals (as if!) and came across this (*) which reminded me of an attempted jazzy jam from a number of years ago. The organiser handed everyone a bit of paper with abstract colours on it and said "we'll be using this as the basis for our improvisation"... We made a proper racket but I did meet a really good trombonist!

 

 

*it's actually a wavelet periodigram showing Geomagnetically Induced Currents in power distribution lines (colour indicates power) as a function of time... It demonstrates the problems "solar weather" can cause in our modern techy stuff - there was actually a 9 hour power outage in Canada as a direct result of GICs!

 

 

 

 

Well there you go, a little learning along the way 

Usual simple rules apply 

 

✅ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline.

❌ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on

❌ No Bagpipes, I think they might cause a few GIC's , but you can go and play them in Canada! 

❌ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you..

 

Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 24th April

 

A line or two of blurb as usual for the vote thread will be super duper smashing lovely. 

 

Good luck, Have fun 

 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

An ambient groove is taking shape...

[Lord Sausage]

I was considering doing one last month and this but I just can't do anything with them pics. It probably says more about me than it does the choices!

[Lord Sausage]

Literally just after typing that last post and thinking about why I couldn't get anything from it and how I compose. It came to me!

 

So there are some blue and green bits, then a big splooge of yellow, then blue- green.

 

So the form will be 2 sections or types of sections. Then a big completely different bit. Then back to the 2 types of sections. 

 

The time changing up the side of the graph means I'll change some things as it goes along within the sections. Don't know what. Harmony, chords not sure. 

 

I'll try and have a go.

[Leonard Smalls]

41 minutes ago, Lord Sausage said:

changing

Copycat!

I've got a gap!

And two superimposed time signatures!

I didn't, however, go so far as to change key. I'm a gentleman after all!

Currently rolling it in glitter and adding far too many effects.

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, Lord Sausage said:

I was considering doing one last month and this but I just can't do anything with them pics...

 

That's never stopped Lenny. 

 

...

 

 

[Lord Sausage]

57 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Copycat!

I've got a gap!

And two superimposed time signatures!

I didn't, however, go so far as to change key. I'm a gentleman after all!

Currently rolling it in glitter and adding far too many effects.

Don't know what I'm changing yet. I just have the form.......and a riff now. It will probably take me all month if I finish at all!

[Leonard Smalls]

13 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

That's never stopped Lenny.

Aye... I find the best thing to do if you haven't got an immediate brainwave from the pic is to make whatever you like and call it something linked, or even invent an elaborate justification.

I suspect many of us do that!

[Leonard Smalls]

12 hours ago, Lord Sausage said:

and a riff

In that case you're done!

You never need more than a riff, unless it's 2 riffs and a widdley bit.

[Lord Sausage]

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

In that case you're done!

You never need more than a riff, unless it's 2 riffs and a widdley bit.

You've just analysed all my composition work!

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

My track's currently coming in at just under nine minutes, so I'll have to edit down a 7" version once I've finished tracking it — or maybe do a fadeout.

 

I've laid down the world's simplest bass line using rick-o-sound on my 4003, and the vocal will utilise my newly aquired Roland VT-4 voice transformer (or E-4 voice tweaker depending on which I prefer)

[Dad3353]

12 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

... I'll have to edit down a 7" version...

 

That's quite severe; you're allowed a bit more than seven seconds. 

 

...

 

 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

To be fair it is quite repetitive so once you've heard that, you've heard it all.