2024-MAY-01 Info: Check out our current running Songwriting Competition 081 - which offers an interesting twist and a focus on sound design.

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by Crosshatched
Tue Apr 30, 2024 06:11 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC080 April 2024 - Winners announced
Replies: 62
Views: 4164

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC080 April 2024 - Voting until 01-MAY-2024 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Comments: I hope my comment are helpful enough. APi_ZZ -- Scaffold The introductory atmosphere really comes through, and then the contrasts, especially around 1:00 and 2:30 are nice. I think the organization probably rests upon the intro, these contrasts, and on getting the atmosphere right. It mig...
by Crosshatched
Sun Apr 21, 2024 05:12 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC080 April 2024 - Winners announced
Replies: 62
Views: 4164

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC080 April 2024 - Submissions until 24-APR-2024 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Frame for Nothing https://soundcloud.com/g-jardine/swc080_crosshatched_scaffolding-for-nothing track built on 28 seconds of loop sorry, I didn't improv an acoustic melody over the top of the soft synths! so I can't claim this is a 'scaffold' or base for that. (I fantasized about doing so... but arra...
by Crosshatched
Tue Aug 29, 2023 03:24 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 61
Views: 28860

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Voting until 01-SEP-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

A Future in Noise: Yeah, that makes sense. That really is how the piece and line feels.
by Crosshatched
Mon Aug 28, 2023 19:32 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 61
Views: 28860

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Voting until 01-SEP-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Here is my vote, anyway, from 1st to 5th place (by ranking, not by points): 1 VCA-089 2 Havol 3 EsteveCorbera 4 Doc Jon 5 satyatunes And here are my comments. Technically I have notes on all other competitors' pieces, but my notes on Arelem and VCA-089 come short of a critique, so I really only have...
by Crosshatched
Thu Aug 24, 2023 15:49 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 61
Views: 28860

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Submissions until 24-AUG-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

I just enabled downloads.

Strangely, I thought I had already double-checked and enabled downloads on the 22nd...
by Crosshatched
Wed Aug 23, 2023 01:09 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 61
Views: 28860

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Submissions until 24-AUG-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Update: should now be downloadable. Very lovely picture. Unfortunately, pictures that are this ambient and this lovely might trick me into thinking I can write a story with them, without actually giving me any story. Since this is just voice and keys, that (and the song itself) is apparently what y...
by Crosshatched
Tue May 30, 2023 02:42 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC069 May 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 50
Views: 35372

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC069 May 2023 - Voting until 01-JUN-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

All right, my comments are as usual subjective. I can get impatient at waiting for the repetitions in EDM and I have heavy suspicions of artificial-sounding voices, and this might disadvantage electronic music. I do like synths and some degree of EDM, anyway. I basically like listening to songs on t...
by Crosshatched
Wed May 24, 2023 20:45 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC069 May 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 50
Views: 35372

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC069 May 2023 - Submissions until 24-MAY-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Here is my piece, 'Swoon Waltz'. (Sure, I might alter the name slightly. The idea is that one is carrying on at the same time as kind of fading out.) https://soundcloud.com/g-jardine/swc069-crosshatched-swoon-waltz This is the least significant piece in an EP I hope to make. But I wrote it just this...
by Crosshatched
Thu Oct 27, 2022 03:27 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC062 October 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 51
Views: 31464

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC062 October 2022 - Voting until 01-NOV-2022 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

First, comments on others' pieces. (Thank you!) EsteveCorbera Here it was the guitar in particular and also the drums and the rest of the instrumentation that got me in. Such a fun opening riff. David John - Surely Designed - Serious lyrics—I like the burning letter carrying a word— and I like the r...
by Crosshatched
Mon Oct 24, 2022 13:06 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC062 October 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 51
Views: 31464

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC062 October 2022 - Submissions until 24-10-2022 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

https://soundcloud.com/gail-j-185448749/swc062-crosshatched-the-sky-opens-up?si=a33e000a6ee04d438f0f46226e1853d0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing And The Sky Opens Up This is only the chorus. Songwriting and recording take me too long. I actually did writ...