Composition Challenge #2 "Drone"

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Antique_GuitarsAntique_Guitars Frets: 1167
edited December 2014 in Making Music
Greetings people of the Fretboard! We are back for round 2 of the Fretboard Challenge competitions, I hope that a lot of you will take part this time :-).


The competition:


(Revised Specs Please Read) (After careful thought we have now decided to modify the challenge to be every 2 months instead of 3.)

Every 2 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 YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0plkfV_eKHP2QBs76v3Ixw

Songs must be submitted in an MP3 format with an accompanying Image (this will be then used to create a WMV to be uploaded to youtube) or you can submit your own WMV file and create a proper video if you wish.

FRETBOARD CHALLENGE #2

Fretboard Challenge #2 starts 1st April 2014 - Submission deadline 20th May 2014

Voting starts 21st May 2014 - Voting ends 31st May 2014

Winner will be announced just before midnight 31st May 2014


Guidelines

The rules for Fretboard Challenge #2 have been chosen by the moderators of thefretboard.co.uk, it is designed to be an open challenge which allows multiple avenues of musical exploration for all :-).

Create a DRONE track at least 1 minute in length. Drone music has its roots in ethnic and spiritual music, but in the west it was in the minimalist movement of the 60's that it really got more notice. At later times through genres like Krautrock and Shoegaze it became popular again, more recently bands like Sunn O))) have once again brought it to the forefront .

There is an opportunity for everyone to explore drone in whatever way they want, it is supposed to be as open a challenge as possible. You could potentially make an extremely beautiful piece of music, some kind of extreme noise, ethnic/spiritual music or anything else inbetween.

This Wiki page may be useful to those of you unfamiliar with the various types of Drone music and the artists associated with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_music

Any number or combination of instruments can be used, vocal layering and sampling is also permitted.

You Do Not have to use guitars if you don't want to.


Deadline

Midnight (UK time) 20th May 2014.


Prize

The prize for this competition will be a brand new Diago Little Smasher - Compact 5w amplifier (worth about £100) 

http://www.diago.co.uk/images/stories/little_smasher/slideshow/ls_slide_1.jpg

I shall provide the prize, however If you would like to make a donation to the prize fund please let me know.


Questions

Let me know.
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  • chrispy108chrispy108 Frets: 2336
    Smashing, a much better, broader challenge than last time. I'll be doing this.
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  • Smashing, a much better, broader challenge than last time. I'll be doing this.
    Excellent I look forward to recieving your entry.
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  • Drew_TNBDDrew_TNBD Frets: 22445
    Smashing, a much better, broader challenge than last time. I'll be doing this.
    Excellent I look forward to recieving your entry.
    =))

    I may give it a go too.
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  • Drew_fx said:
    Smashing, a much better, broader challenge than last time. I'll be doing this.
    Excellent I look forward to recieving your entry.
    =))

    I may give it a go too.
    you have had too much sausage already!
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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24601
    Congratulations on the choice of task ... I ran out of time for the last one but will make sure I submit something for this one.

    Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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  • Video for Fretboard Challenge #2 here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1SoFlK1hDk
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  • steamabacussteamabacus Frets: 1258
    I'm up  for it again. 
    :)
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  • I feel safe with this one, my last effort may have been too much like this:


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  • samzadgansamzadgan Frets: 1471
    Drone...nice...i'll get writing!
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  • I'm in for sure.

    Hope this continues for a long time, challenges are a great way to motivate us to write things, I'll be here no matter what the genre!

    The monthly challenges I was doing at the Coconut Blues Club have just sadly come to a close after 6 brilliant years (and close to 100 tunes by me during that time!). You may remember some of the spam ;)
    littlegreenman < My tunes here...
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  • I'm hoping for over 3000 entries! ;-)
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  • thecolourboxthecolourbox Frets: 9654
    Superb, everybody loves a drone, I'm in
    Please note my communication is not very good, so please be patient with me
    soundcloud.com/thecolourbox-1
    youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 28280
    Not sure I'm up to drone music, but that's a lovely prize!
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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24601
    Anyone care to post some examples of their favourite drone music?

    Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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  • LevLev Frets: 228
    So would this be an example of drone music?


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  • LevLev Frets: 228
    Another quick question, given that drones tend to build up in layers of sounds on top of sounds, does 1 minute give enough time to achieve this?
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  • Lev;201780" said:
    Another quick question, given that drones tend to build up in layers of sounds on top of sounds, does 1 minute give enough time to achieve this?
    hello,

    It says at least 1 minute in length, there is no maximum limit.
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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24601
    This is interesting ...



    Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24601
    And this for guitarists ..



    Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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  • Antique_GuitarsAntique_Guitars Frets: 1167
    edited April 2014
    This is my favourite piece of music of all time its by Terry Riley who is one of the fathers of the minimalist movement (along with la monte young Phillip glass and Steve reich )

    It's called Persian Surgery Dervishes and it an hour and a half of repeating organ lines that vary slightly over time, some might argue it not drone in the strict sense but it what I like to listen to.

    Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes - Full Al…:
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