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Nur Ein XIII Round Two "3:20"

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Welcome to Round Two of Nur Ein XIII

Title: 3:20
Challenge: ambience

Songs are Due on: Sunday, May 20th @ 11:59 PM Eastern
Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com

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Dear Judges,

This challenge sure lends itself to instrumental compositions.
Then right below it says "songs are due....."

By definition, a song has singing and lyrics.

So are all the judges okay with instrumentals for this round? ( Which seems to be the spirit, especially with all of the Eno talk and John Cage reference), or are we indeed expected to have a musical composition that includes vocals and lyrics thus rendering it a song?

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glennny wrote: By definition, a song has singing and lyrics.

So are all the judges okay with instrumentals for this round? ( Which seems to be the spirit, especially with all of the Eno talk and John Cage reference), or are we indeed expected to have a musical composition that includes vocals and lyrics thus rendering it a song?
The references to Eno or Cage seem obvious, however I believe that the term ambience is as vague as the traditional definition given by Nur Ein to its challenges. In any case I will opt for music + lyrics, assuming the definition of song that you mention. The way I approach the challenge will be fought at the time, XDD
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Note, the challenge does NOT say "ambient" as in the musical style. It says "ambienCE".
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Oh....I thought it said “ambulance”. I thought cool, more sirens.
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Oh... I thought it said 'Ambien' and we were all going to sleep it off...
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Oh...I thought you said "amphibian", and we were going to record our songs underwater.
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I thought it said "ambivalence" and we were gonna be really moody.
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Pop Machine wrote:Oh...I thought you said "amphibian", and we were going to record our songs underwater.
That's going to be hard on the electronics.
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Getting an early submission in for this one before I go on holiday. I hope the judges like abject misery!!!
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Your lyrics are quite good.
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vowlvom wrote:I hope the judges like abject misery!!!
Hey, that's our theme too! wtf
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Hi guys, I've just sent 3:20 in. I've even posted the lyrics. I'm really starting to get my song fight big boy pants on. This week I've had my first go at recording on garage band. Took me a while to get the hang of it, I'm sure to get better. Looking forward to hearing this weeks crop of songs, good luck all.
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B Mac wrote:Hi guys, I've just sent 3:20 in. I've even posted the lyrics. I'm really starting to get my song fight big boy pants on. This week I've had my first go at recording on garage band. Took me a while to get the hang of it, I'm sure to get better. Looking forward to hearing this weeks crop of songs, good luck all.
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Caravan ray, used gb on iPhone using built in mic
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B Mac wrote:Caravan ray, used gb on iPhone using built in mic
Good. Now we just have to work on that bizarre “caravan ray” style strumming you do when playing live ;)
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Just finished my song. It's about a guy and girl who took a trip of whatever drug to then wake up at 3:20 AM in the middle of nowhere, wondering how they wound up there.
Oh, and it's more than twice as long as 3 minutes and 20 seconds. That's partly because it's very slow as well, though, about 66 BPM.
Hope you don't mind (sorry, judges!)
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Mine is mostly about missing my cat, with some slight biblical overtones. I'm not saying my cat was better than Jesus, but I *am* thinking it quite loudly.
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Well, by the looks of it, it seems the judges are getting what they asked for.
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Sent.

My sources for the ambience were taken from this place full of sound treasures that is http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/ and a sound fragment of that indispensable piece of history of the movies that was "Kikcboxer 4", XDD

The song is about the incessant talk of a noisy audience in musical performances in small stages, and the consequent anger.

Its duration is 3:20, but I needed two more seconds to make room for the delay queue that was out there.

I hope you like it.
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Owls are in
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