Thought some people on the list might be interested in participating in this:
The sine waves compilation (to be titled once all submissions are in) will use songs written using ONLY sine waves in their creation. All oscillations, modulations, lfo's, envelopes, etc, MUST use only sine waves. No samples our outside source audio will be permitted this releases, unless of course samples are of sine waves. However, any and all effects or other manipulations are encouraged. All sound styles are also permitted, ambient, soundscapes, harsh noise... the tracklist will be arranged accordingly for flow so please go crazy! All songs should be unique to this release (meaning written for, and released specifically on this compilation), and should not exceed 20 minutes in length. We will accept ALL submissions that have followed the guidelines, but we're looking for no less than 12 pieces for the release.
Please have submissions in by May 23, 2012. Any emails regarding this releases (submissions, questions, comments, concerns) should contain the words 'Sine Comp' in the subject and can be directed to bartongraham@live.com
File names should please use the following format:
Comp Title or Description: Artist/Band Name: Song Title
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 11:28 -0400, Jonathan Siemasko wrote:
Thought some people on the list might be interested in participating in this:
The sine waves compilation (to be titled once all submissions are in) will use songs written using ONLY sine waves in their creation. All oscillations, modulations, lfo's, envelopes, etc, MUST use only sine waves.
I could imagine that people have troubles with the given constraint. Any sound consists of only sine waves. For instance, I often use band-limited oscillators for saw tooth and rectangle waveforms, which are based on the tables that are generated using the sinesum command, which means the waveforms are composed purely of sine components. But even if you do not compose a waveform yourself like when you're using a [phasor~], the waveform still consists of a sum of sine components in the end (either explicitly or implicitly). So, where do you draw the line? Strictly sticking to your constraint, every music I ever made in my life would fit the application. But then, I can't see the reasoning anymore for making a constraint at all.
Don't get wrong, I generally appreciate your effort in creating a submission/competition of this kind, but encourage you to refine the constraints.
Roman
Strictly sticking to your constraint, every music I ever made in my life would fit the application. But then, I can't see the reasoning anymore for making a constraint at all.
This argument has been made before in other places I have posted this as well. Yes, I agree that the idea is quite open ended and really the concept is the get artist to think outside the box and push themselves. It is up to each individual artist to decide for themselves what they consider is fair and what is over the line. Just because you could in theory deconstruct the Amen break down to sine waves and resynthesis it does that mean using that sample is fair game? The first call for submissions was actually about 2 weeks ago and we already have a number of entries. I think there is a potential challenge to it but each artist has to decide for themselves where to draw the line on what is fair and what is not. It would be difficult to draw stricter guidelines because this is not only a comp for PD or any other piece of software.
Thanks, Jonathan
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Roman Haefeli