I could wax philosophical about AI in music and its potential pros and cons but ultimately I see a songwriting contest as an exercise in human creativity therefore I don't think AI generated musical tracks really have a place in a competitive community.

Thanks for the reviews Seemanski and Glennny! I've been waiting to read these cause I didn't want them coloring my own opinions.

That means we need 900 more Glenn Case songs.

Lockheed Symphony : Does that decode to anything in Morse code? I'm not patient enough to figure it out. I like the crunchy aleatoric feel to this. I have no idea how it matches the title. But who cares. I like it. It decodes to "A Grand Parade"! Rhythm and MIDI were generated in ChucK.

Yep, 34, started here at 16 and now my kids are 9, 5, and 3. It's a wild ride and SongFight has always been there!
Also Melvin I'm glad you like Lockheed Symphony as a bandname as it's what I was using when you and Pete were part of my first ever online collab. Ah, so many memories here!

Who all is interested in an online version like we've done the past few years? While I'd love to visit Colorado, it's just not gonna happen! Family obligations, etc.

I'm willing to host if we're gonna keep that tradition going

Lockheed Symphony

morse code:

.- / --. .-. .- -. -.. / .--. .- .-. .- -.. .

ChucK script to generate the MIDI:

https://pastebin.com/raw/YLBsCJG4

Funny, I just wrote a song called "I Need A Vacation" a month ago.

brought back a super old alias for this one

JUAN Honey guess who I bumped into at Valley Motors? Jes’ca? No, not her. Juan! Which Juan? I know a lot of Juans! Why don’t you try to guess which Juan? Cause that’ll take forever? Nahh, you could make a song out of it… Well that sounds kinda fun! Okay! Is it Juan Melendez? (no) Or Juan Hernandez? ...

Nobody truly lost, is my interpretation of the numbers!

This has got to be some kind of record for lowest standard deviation in terms of vote count distribution! To save folks a click: #1 was Robyn and Add and BSS with 7 votes #2 was Phlub and Mellfire Trifecta with 6 votes #3 was Chthonic Youth and Sumner Sloane with 5 votes. If I had more free time I'd...

Add : I like the chord progression you’ve got going on. Switches up enough to keep my interest peaked. Those harmonies and that ascending melody in the verse is pretty sweet. The bass sits in the mix weirdly…too much fuzz/compression? Or maybe it’s just too loud. Kind of wish it had more energy in ...

(Googles "What is a mandocello?")... Looks like a cool instrument! It is a nice little quartet you had going there. Everybody should get one! I found out they existed last summer and immediately agreed with my wife that we would not buy each other Christmas or birthday presents and instea...

Oh I'm gonna do them. Just finishing FAWM first.

Anyway, instrumentation is: 5 string bass, mandocello, mandolin, drums. just got the mandocello and it's so awesome!

Phlub Magic is the art of modifying consciousness according to the will of the mage Moving images manipulate better than a bunch of printed pictures on a page Advertising programs your mind by hypnotizing you with images of shit that you don't need Rapid-fire clips of subperceptual suggestions plus...

Submitted some punky mando abuse.

Phlub Carboniferous deposits resting thirty seven feet beneath your moss covered lawn Dendritic filaments compressed into composite layers Burn it up until it it is gone I got the past inside my pocket today Plate tectonics have locked it away It'll make all the geologists say mmmhmmmm Elemental mo...

In with my first entry since June! Went with 2 part vocal harmony but maybe I can overdub a third track at some point. Realized that it was a shame to go full on into FAWM without doing at least one SongFight entry.

Berkeley Social Scene: 20 years of competing against you guys and i can still never remember if you're local to each and and actually get together in the studio to record these songs. That's how well ya'll work together, that I can totally picture seeing you guys live, if its an illusion it works. ...

There's nothing like typing up several pages of reviews in the forum reply field and having the server glitch to quickly teach you to write them somewhere else and copy paste. At least the amount of effort is the same!

And Counting! That was a terrific fight. Goodness, was that half a songfight ago? Feels longer than that, but I guess we quit doing multiple titles.