It is interesting, very interesting... Is this microtonality? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_temperament Also I made one of these out of a damaged Laurel Canyon acoustic I got for free. :) https://www.kiteguitar.com/ Love that! I’d heard of Kite but never played one. I’m curious how well it bl...

roymond : Oh, twinkly! And then so much reverb and chorus. We’re in this dream pop soundscape, until suddenly…trap-infused drum beats? Very adventurous structure here and I want to give points for that. Cool chord shift starting on after “within you” for sure. I find myself more intrigued by what y...

Well, it may be 9 years late, but when I say I'll do something, dam it, I mean it!

I hope Shane likes: Black Hole - RxW cover

Silver Birthday - roymond searching searching for silver i was searching for silver and found gold i was lost, not even lost and found i could touch no ground, I could hear no sound - within me What you see is an extremity a final plea, a need to be - within you Searching ... Then as now I could not...

Here, Atticus wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 26, 2025 2:29 pm

roymond wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 17, 2025 2:26 pm

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This is really, really funny. Dunno what else to say, wanted to make sure you know it was appreciated

Glad it made you laugh!
Data visualization isn’t often on people’s radar.

Come back sooner than that, Carlo. Your entries were stellar, it was a joy to hear them!

carlo bruno jr wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:00 am

I considered starting to play guitar with one arm tied behind my back,

This. This is the right answer.

On a related note: Let this act as attestation that I will hold nothing against anyone who doesn't know the thing that they're not expected to know even though it exists.

So I learned after that fact that, without written notation, it can be difficult or impossible to discern 5/4 from 5/8. My thoughts are this...it's all about perceived meter. You can notate a song in any meter you like (even carrying across bar lines), but notation doesn't define the actual meter. ...

THIS was an awesome round! These are extraordinary songs that didn't exist a week earlier. Congrats to everyone who rocked it. I like providing feedback/reviews but it's been a crazy few weeks. I'll do my best from here on out, as it starts getting very interesting towards the finale. Please don't r...

I built a PC from parts in the mid ‘80s and got an audio card that would sync to my Tascam 4 track Portastudio, using one of its tracks for the sync signal. I forget what software I used! That gave me three tracks of audio and however many MIDI instruments the CPU could handle on the PC. I bought a ...

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I bet it's tough to come up with challenges that work for well for everyone, given our varied skills and experience, and appreciate the thought and effort that goes in. I think fitting everyone just right all the time is just too unrealistic of a goal. Just my 2c. Not that I was driving any of the ...

Nick Cave's "Where the Wild Roses Grow" as a model That is a classic, and a great model for that round;s challenge. But it's in 6/8, not 3/4. :P And Logic absolutely does support setting the meter/time signature to whatever you want, as many times as you want, during a song: https://suppo...

americanjeff wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 16, 2025 6:09 pm

But what's the TITLE?

You need to wait until that week.

P-whipped, indeed! A good cause. Will miss ya.

Props to the cover artist this week. Sweet!

roymond wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 29, 2025 5:03 pm

It’s gonna be tight. I may arrive Thursday late, work Friday remote, leave Sunday. But it’s worth it!

“The man” just informed us we can work remote a couple weeks in August, so I’m gonna stay a little longer, at least to catch Spud’s Sunday event. Still arriving Thursday.

Charles Ives wrote “The Unanswered Question” in 1908. Although the responses to the question ("The Perennial Question of Existence") break down in frustration, he met the current Nur Ein challenge brilliantly. The woodwinds respond to the question a number of times. Some submissions don’t ...

Fuck! Sorry to hear all this and glad you’re ok. Life these days is fucked up enough. Songfight’s here for you!

c.layne had a bird outside his window that appeared in many entries. Some people talk with their dog. I think there are many opportunities “outside the box”.

glennny wrote: ↑

Thu May 29, 2025 12:24 pm

are you a man or are you a mauer?
If you're a mauer, oh you're a very manly mauer
Are you a mauer or are you a man?
If you're a man, that makes you a mauer of a man

Sounds like David Lindley’s “quarter of a man”.

I see the challenge as a required element. It doesn’t need to be featured but if it’s so obscure that attentive listeners can’t find it you’ve missed the boat. If your ego keeps you from stating it in your lyric post then you’re effectively hiding it, or you didn’t meet the challenge…how are we to k...