Lamp Sessions (Monthly Challenge #003) – submissions due August 28 @ 11:59PM UTC

I’ve gotta say this is a really fun task, but I’ve gotta say there’s a part of me that wishes I didn’t hear the dusty fungus entry. So much detail, sounds like something out of transformers.

The bar is set pretty high there! Five years on you’d expect the bar to be raised even higher than that, and I’m sorry I can’t even imagine anything beyond that; let alone create it.

I’m gonna have to pull up my sleeves here if I wanna compete here!

This is great! Taking off the genre pressures and free to roam..

So to clarify, people can either pick a category to enter, or go for both if they want to?

Definitely excited to hear the results of this one!

All right peeps, so here’s my entries:

I felt kinda happy with elements of the industrial, but it lacks symbolism, I was trying to go for realism, but I struggled creating an environment and a story line inside this environment, there’s not enough of linked symbols, it seems a bit disjointed. Fun but hard challenge. Foley is all my own recordings, sirens are synthesised and I tried to reverse engineer how Dusty Fungus did elements of his. The truck at the start is a pitch down drum loop in a granular sampler, accidental but sounded cool. Lots of the ambience are noise foley with a convolution reverb with a crazy sample put inside to get extra filmic weirdness.

Nature I’m more proud of, music sounds like nature to me! I wanted to convey an intertwining like DNA spiralling around, so i used some weird polymeter in the arp with a euclidean rhythm offset against another straight arp and sounds like weaving roots or unfurling branches. The foley is done about five mins from where I live there’s a small river with a bunch of waterfalls and it sounds sick. I wanted the whole thing to carry on rising and growing like nature, so I apologise but I’d say the first 1.30 was the submission the rest is so people on here don’t get annoyed after listening to a build up with no drop 😛

And I guess I have a SC now, would appreciate the follow and will follow and check out your tunes back.

They are both nice, but that second one is trippel-lovely with that processed female vox.

Sublime

As you’re all working on your submissions, take a moment to check these out:

https://www.francispreve.com/scapes/

He provides the Live file, and does a ton with just operator. Pretty incredible.

Hey, I am skipping this one (I know nothing about this kind of abstract sound design as I am still focusing mostly on arrangement and mixdown stuff.), but looking forward to the submissions. Good luck everyone 😉

Bombs away!

This one is Nature multiplied by Mechanical (Industrial)

all sounds are mine

https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/shrike-lampsessions003-cyberhunt

https://soundcloud.com/tuor_music/tuor-lamp-sessions-003-industrial/s-v9Ud2

https://soundcloud.com/tuor_music/tuor-lamp-sessions-003-natural/s-KyCDN

Pouring out some of my forty for the missing soldiers, big ups to the entrants.

Adam,I love what you did with some single, connected notes. You took them farther than I thought a single note might ever go. Dramatic and effective, nice 1 mate.

However,I must vote for my youngblood Forget their Name. I’ve been impressed with everything you’ve posted, and these entries are no exception. I’d be willing to bet I’m not the only one around here that is interested to hear what you create next. Well done, my son.

i vote Forget their Name

Not a lot of respect being shown to this challenge…

I get it that not everyone can enter, but the whole thing has gone dark now, even with discussions & votes & soforth.

Maybe we can remedy that?

Well, we generally don’t have many members participating, so when just a few of us skip some challenge, it makes it look even emptier. Wouldn’t link that with respect tho 😉

Only participants (and HQ) can vote and the only one who didn’t is “Forgot their Name”, who kinda went silent after his initial post in his payment-related topic.

I understand, and I still think we can do better.

For the record, I think we should let any and all vote, participant or no.

Dear all,

This month’s submissions are nothing short of impressive!
In fact perhaps the most interesting work, artistically speaking, we’ve had submitted yet. The Sound design on all of the industrial stuff is top class; you could all easily get a writers credit on one of the new Star Wars Films!
Hopefully the exercise itself will have given rise to some fresh samples and patches you can use in your tracks, or perhaps inspired an epic intro that sounds like an off-world visitation…

The POV from us on these competitions is that they are great, and as a long as you mods’ want to keep running them, long may they continue. We are – and never have been – about number counts on this forum. It’s about quality of conversation and content over quantity, Avoiding ‘spew’ wherever possible.
If the forum sits quiet for a few days, a week, then that’s all fine. We are of the inclination, speak when you have something worth saying; reply when your intentions are positive.

So if three wonderful, creative souls enter a monthly challenge and we get to hear their music… what a marvellous thing that is. 4? That’s just brilliant. More? Simply a bonus…

This month has been very hard to pick a winner, of the industrial stuff particularly, there is little between it.
Adam Tuor: really nice swelling atmospheric moments, Shrike: brilliant definition in the top end detail, and forgot their name: Excellent sounds all round, but the nature submission was fantastic too, visualising helical DNA, just awesome stuff.

So we vote winners:

Industrial: Shrike
Natural: Forgot their name

Come forth and get in touch!

Hear, hear!

Thank you, Genie, especially for providing this dojo in which to train.

WELL DONE ALL.

Forget, I hope we see you back my young bruv.