Contest: October "Gossip" + Result

[Hellfog]

Free month mabey?

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[harvon]

The month of "Let's stay in the comfort zone", that means. Would it be good to add one rule, to compose music of any genre and style on a given poem? And if somebody thinks that singing is just too much to ask, then let there be talking, yelling, vocoder, rap, word mangling, cuts from popular songs, I know you have the imagination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vekx5rYaijY

[Saffran]

A whole poem seems much.
5 words or more?

[Hellfog]

A poem is not everyone's cup of tea, maybe a quote, line from a movie, commercial, or just anything you can imagine.

[harvon]

You two must be thinking that I expect people to write the poem. Not so. Here is a short one that rhymes well.

What Are Heavy?

What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;
What are brief? Today and tomorrow;
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;
What are deep? The ocean and truth.

Christina Rossetti (1830 -1894)

[Saffran]

You two must be thinking that I expect people to write the poem. Not so. Here is a short one that rhymes well.

What Are Heavy?

What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;
What are brief? Today and tomorrow;
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;
What are deep? The ocean and truth.

Christina Rossetti (1830 -1894)

You read about how hard it is to set existing text to music.
A poem have an inbuilt rhytm. That forces you to find a suitable rhytm for the song. That's not easy.
It's easier to put in single words or short sentences into an existing a song.

[harvon]

A poem have an inbuilt rhytm. That forces you to find a suitable rhytm for the song. That's not easy.

To me that is easy, and I thought easy for everybody to do.

Thank you, I learned something.

[Saffran]

A poem have an inbuilt rhytm. That forces you to find a suitable rhytm for the song. That's not easy.

To me that is easy, and I thought easy for everybody to do.

Thank you, I learned something.

harvon. You shouldn't feel awkward.
I think we should set the bar really low to tempt everyone visiting KVR to give it a try.
Europe is stressed out with the war and cost of living that rises extremely high. It steals time. But something that only take a day or four could be fine.
You should go for it and show us your skills and do your poem. No harm in that.

[Saffran]

I guess some of the users on KVR is similar to me.
I don't know music theory. I've never studied music or instrument. I'm selftought and still learning.
I've only used a daw and plugins for 4 years. Started when Cakewalk became free.
I would not be able to tell if a song is a polka without any clues. A tuba and an accordion is a tell for me. If i would listen to the contest songs without knowing what it should be i would probably fail to recognize it as polka.
But i'm learning and get a little bit better every month. I'm a pensioner and lazy so it's slow learning.

[Wicker Man]

How about any style but the theme is war - depressing I know but a powerful subject, particularly for protests. Could be a soundscape of the battlefield horror or a poem sung in Bob Dylan stylee.

[Saffran]

Yea, metal thumping and "die" pumping for 3 minutes.
That would throw away the bar.

[folderol]

A KISS theme please. I really can't manage anything else at the moment

[Saffran]

So far this will get us:
The band War and the band KISS represents hard rock. So, a hard rock poem then?

[folderol]

A KISS theme please. I really can't manage anything else at the moment

Ummm not quite what I was thinking of.

[Saffran]

The original suggestion of a free month is probably the best.

Everyone can do their thing - poem, war, KISS or whatever.