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Fantastic work! You brought a lot of emotions out of it. I perceived some of them right after making the image, but didn't know where to begin articulating them.

Any interest in continuing this series?

I'm up to it! What will be the next challenge?

DLGS music DanLucazArt

Took me a while to think of a good open-ended one, but I think this one's good!

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Freesound Music Challenge (FMC) 003 - "Frequenze Sequenze"

Create a song which splits into at least two seperate songs before merging back into one again.

Ideas for Methods:
- Multiple tunes/multiple sets of instruments that get mashed up
- Songs that can be interwoven or which have alternating parts (call-and-response, etc.)
- A set of stems that get selectively muted/unmuted
- A set of drones with the same starting pitch/texture which diverge and then return
- A giant percussion kit which plays each different song on different pieces of the kit

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Upload your composition and link it here to show us!

If you want to help keep things organized, add the prefix "FMC003" to your track's name. This also helps us with making compilations and playlists, if we get to that point.

Every time I've approached this prompt, I've overintellectualized it to the point of getting nothing done. So I tried to turn my brain off, make some material, and record a video of it. If you like rambling, bad audio quality and swearing coming from a sleep-deprived drunken hermit, this is the video for you!
My actual FMC003 submission probably won't sound much like the result I got here, as much more work needs to be done, but I had fun making the video in any case. Fun is good. Don't forget to have that.

https://vimeo.com/726961123

Well here's my submission lol

https://soundcloud.com/sonic_kitchen/fmc003-portrait-of-the-great-yolk

Here's my weird piece.

https://soundcloud.com/user-678701554/fmc003-idk?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Nice one! I think you accomplished the challenge better than I did. We oughta do some kind of music collab thing sometime.

I think the next one (FMC004) should definitely involve one or more Freesound sounds.

Any suggestions for those?

Seconding my above post since I actually came here to suggest we do a new prompt with freesound sounds.

Anyone know some good sounds for a prompt? I don't wanna just suggest my own again.

make a song with this sound as a percussion: https://freesound.org/people/thecoolcookie17/sounds/573047/
as well as laser blaster sound(s) for more percussion (any blaster will work)
any other ideas? never done a dare before so this will be fun

Is anyone still interested in the music challenge concept?

sure why not

I'd be interested.

How about a challenge with polyrhythms? Well, I might as well issue it or else it'll never happen.

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Freesound Music Challenge (FMC) 004 - "Temporal Convergence"

Create a piece which has at least 4 meters/time signatures. Extra credit if the song has at least one section where all 4 are used simultaneously.
It's up to you which meters to use and how to combine them!

That was fun! Here's mine: https://soundcloud.com/sonic_kitchen/fmc004-happy-hunting-field

I thought to write an elaborate, evolving harmonic progression, lead melody etc etc, but then decided to keep it stress-free and just focus on the polyrhythms themselves. I'm using combinations of 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 5/4, quantized in different ways to make 2/3, 3/5 and so on. So there's also some rhythmic overlap, especially with the 2/2 drums.

I spun out for a little bit and couldn't get anything that I liked, but then I decided to fiddle around with polymeters and polyrhythms with piano and it came out nicely. I think sometime soon I'll make a polymetric/polyrhythmic/polytempi piano album.

I wish I had more time, but I didn't want to spend too too long on it.

Anyway, let me know what you think:

https://freesound.org/people/Hewn.Marrow/sounds/680769/

Nice, you went a lot further out there than I did. It's got an interesting effect. It's like it wants to meander but keeps getting truncated back into itself. I could see it developing into some early 1900's gospel/Americana, pre-Schoenberg chromatism, or similar. Or maybe it's a player piano type thing that the person only partly assembled before getting excited and deciding to try it out ASAP.

When I did mine I used whole beat divisions only, no tuplets or other note lengths. I think that + small whole-number meters + short chromatic percussion for the instrumentation is really forgiving. Still, when doing time signature related challenges I always entertain the question "How do I get WAY out there but still make something pleasant to listen to?" The answer for me is often FX/automation, but this also tends to dilute the essence of the idea and makes it into a reverb soup/overprocessed thing that I could've made with any other kind of input material. Doing it with just the part-writing is probably the more expert method.

Is anyone having difficulty with it?