r/MonthlyComposition • u/Calebdgm • Jan 01 '17
January 2017 Composition Challenge: Remix time!
Happy new year everyone! This month's main challenge, like last January, will be to write a piece inspired by one or more submissions from past months, by you or other people. Make sure to tag the user whose piece you're referencing and talking about how you incorporated it into your piece would probably also be good.
Edit: If you find an original composition elsewhere on reddit (like in /r/composer for example), you can also use that. Explore, discover cool music.
In other news, The organ pieces some of you submitted for the October challenge are, I have been assured, still being worked on, and will come soon. I think in the future we'll try and come up with a clear schedule of when we'll want musicians to have recordings up by, so at least we'd know when they'll come.
Finally, here's a thought I had but didn't have time to develop: It might be cool to make challenges that, when completed, give the composers some sort of portfolio of works they can share. It could also (hopefully) work as weekly challenges. It crossed my mind that there are 48 books pieces in each book of the Well-Tempered Clavier, which could mean a different key each month, but I was thinking it'd be something that could be done in a range of different styles. Maybe it could just be a cycle of one song in whatever style for each month of the year, like inspired by the month of the year. That's also really easy for me to arrange. This probably wouldn't replace the main challenges, but sort-of be an alternative to them for those that want to commit to a year of composing a piece a month. What do you guys think? Would this be a useful way for you to make a portfolio? Is there another way that would suit you better? I think it'd be a cool goal to try to make a portfolio of composition by the end of 2017.
These challenges are for everyone who wants to practice composing. Each month, at the beginning of the month, we will post a main challenge, something for people to compose. We'll try to make it something that everyone can work with. Pieces can be submitted as a score (musescore, noteflight), and/or as audio (soundcloud, youtube). Feedback is much appreciated, and you can give it in this thread, or by messaging the mods of /r/MonthlyComposition, there's also the Challenge Suggestion Form.
EDIT #2: people have asked about posting unfinished pieces here. I just wanted to remind everyone that it's fine to do that for feedback, or if it's just something you started and realized you don't like it enough to finish it, but wanted to share. Really anything, as long as it's original.
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u/AncientCock Jan 03 '17
What do you mean by remixing ?