http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Lockdown Melodic Challenge en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:29:13 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=3#post-342779 Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:50:37 +0000 I were right about that saddle 342779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks to everyone who took part. Not as in casual 'thanks' but as in 'I thank you'. This is CCE at its best in my view, a view which will some day mean something to someone, maybe. Or not. Anyway, the fix is in:</p> <p>In third place and strongly commended: <strong>@acsimpson</strong> for a <a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4627874423242752">brutally honest summation of the year.</a></p> <p>In second place, slightly too polished but still both <a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4829996940001280">musically satisfying and also verging on the realm of the unhinged</a>, <strong>@Arellcat</strong>.</p> <p>Only one winner though. <a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5794435671523328">Spontaneous, unchained joy layered with universal bafflement.</a> <strong>@wingpig</strong> wears the crown. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=3#post-328392 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:31:51 +0000 wingpig 328392@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lost the first version and the start of the second version affected by knowing how the first version changed in the second bar.<br /> <a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5141740450217984" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5141740450217984</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=3#post-328378 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:00:09 +0000 wingpig 328378@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Found one I didn't put here:<br /> <a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5384024367300608" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5384024367300608</a><br /> Going to try and get a few hours on Bandlab this weekend to finish off a couple of songs which have been bothering me for years. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=3#post-328351 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 06:56:58 +0000 gembo 328351@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice riff @acsimpson. I like the bar of silence every so often </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-328350 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 01:31:40 +0000 acsimpson 328350@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Of course if you would rather just listen to the music here it is: <a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4627874423242752" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4627874423242752</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-328349 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 01:27:55 +0000 acsimpson 328349@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>With no knowledge of whether the judging was completed or if IWRATS is currently waiting for the end of lockdown to replace his blown amp I present "An Overture to April Insomnia".</p> <p>This piece was written in a completely different era to early entries so perhaps comparison is not entirely fair.</p> <p>To be enjoyed at it's best this dramatic piece requires a couple of additional props which should also be delivered in the same perfectly square tempo. So without further ado here is the playing order.<br /> Listen to the music 10 times while viewing the logo of your favourite news outlet, paying particular attention to the sound of heavy traffic in the 4th bar. Now scrape your nails down a blackboard while imagining a wealthy tax dodger moaning about how his polluting company is struggling despite his competitors appearing to be fine*. Play the piece 5 more times and finish off with the sound of gargling <strike>bleach</strike> a glass of whisky.</p> <p>* If you prefer substitute this image for one of an equally wealthy tax dodger complaining that their precious but soon to be dead animals are not going to be dead quite soon enough to keep your salmon river well stocked. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-326112 Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:36:25 +0000 wingpig 326112@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4663030022406144" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4663030022406144</a></p> <p>BAGH. Disappeared.</p> <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/6596705635008512" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/6596705635008512</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-326020 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:21:22 +0000 Arellcat 326020@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Going for Kraftwerk-lite:</p> <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5747395511975936" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5747395511975936</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325986 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:52:11 +0000 I were right about that saddle 325986@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any more entries? Will judge Round One with speakers plugged in and amped up to 11 at the weekend. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325867 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:19:01 +0000 I were right about that saddle 325867@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What have I cultivated here? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325860 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:36:28 +0000 wingpig 325860@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/6741244032057344" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/6741244032057344</a></p> <p>Kids hanging off my elbows distracting me from finishing the end properly for now. Maths time for them, now, anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325858 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:13:23 +0000 I were right about that saddle 325858@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@panyagua</p> <p>You OK?</p> <p>@HankChief</p> <p>All welcome in the four categories. The kids are stepping up - keen to hear from you too?</p> <p>@Arellcat</p> <p>Remarkable. Tantamount to subversion. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325857 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:12:52 +0000 I were right about that saddle 325857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@panyagua</p> <p>You OK?</p> <p>@HankChief</p> <p>All welcome in the four categories. The kids are stepping up - keen to hear from you too?</p> <p>@Arellcat</p> <p>Remarkable. Tantamount to subversion. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325854 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:10:35 +0000 fimm 325854@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like mini-HankCheif's submission.<br /> How do you have the patience to programme yours, Arellcat?</p> <p>Not totally satisfactory:<br /> <a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/6537068735889408" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/6537068735889408</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325851 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:52:15 +0000 Arellcat 325851@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Look at ze English, with their, how you say, heelahrious respohnse to ze virus! En France we 'ave even deployed ze emerzhency accordions!"</p> <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4829996940001280" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4829996940001280</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325841 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:01:00 +0000 panyagua 325841@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A trifle bazaar...</p> <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5228238253064192" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5228238253064192</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325837 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:41:42 +0000 HankChief 325837@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mini-Chief's submission - do we have a kids competition?</p> <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4868419046342656" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4868419046342656</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325826 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 22:56:21 +0000 Cyclingmollie 325826@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig, that's caught the mood nicely. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325797 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:34:51 +0000 wingpig 325797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>NO SOOTHING. This is an age of tension and peril.</p> <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5054450722930688" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5054450722930688</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325791 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:02:47 +0000 I were right about that saddle 325791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig</p> <p>Soothes my soul? Oddly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325790 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:59:16 +0000 I were right about that saddle 325790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Cyclingmollie</p> <p>Judged 'barely annoying' by Madame IWRATS after 14 of the 25 minutes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325786 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:21:52 +0000 Roibeard 325786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Arellcat - Mrs Roibeard did remark that it was eerily quiet this morning in the street...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325783 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:59:37 +0000 wingpig 325783@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4981456210231296" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4981456210231296</a></p> <p>WRT <em>Fanfare...</em> Sometime around 1998 I was lying with my head poking out of the window looking out onto a peaceful night-time St Patrick Square, listening to the radio. The proper Copeland version was played, but then the mood spoiled by the ELP version following immediately afterwards. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325781 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:51:58 +0000 Cyclingmollie 325781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Julius Eastman's Stay On It. Just let it loop for 25 minutes.</p> <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5182637914193920" rel="nofollow">https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5182637914193920</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325773 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:40:43 +0000 Frenchy 325773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very good. Perhaps the tempo should be reduced a bit? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325772 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:37:03 +0000 Arellcat 325772@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/6719377212702720">Fanfare for the Common Home Worker</a></p> <p>Edit: That wasn't meant to be a note-perfect rendition of John Cage's 'Four and a Half Minutes'. :-( It was ELP. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325760 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:25:02 +0000 Arellcat 325760@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>a slice of Brandenburg on first one and something from the school of Anderson / Squire on another?</em></p> <p>Yes, and 'Yes'. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325759 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:09:00 +0000 I were right about that saddle 325759@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5775303605485568">Fanfare for Good Intentions.</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325749 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:24:50 +0000 I were right about that saddle 325749@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig</p> <p>I sense lived experience.</p> <p>@LaidBack</p> <p>In your own time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20152&page=2#post-325744 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:49:54 +0000 LaidBack 325744@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So many samples to play on that app - still working through.. Defaults at Miramba on mine but can choose others. May need to investigate further.</p> <p>@Arellcat - think I could hear a slice of Brandenburg on first one and something from the school of Anderson / Squire on another? </p>