One Hour Compo - Round 672 (OHC672)
Outline
Tonight's theme is a picture theme. Please see the resources.
Resources
Rules
You will have 1 hour to complete your song and 10 minutes to finish it up. You will then have an additional 10 minutes to upload your song. At 6 PST/9 EST you may begin your mixing, please have your files uploaded by 7:20 PST/10:20 EST. Join us for discussion on Discord!
Entries (20)
Dusty skies and fallow ground
The water stale and murky
Sunlight barely breaks the shroud
Fading through these ever slowing days
We will fight here til the end of time
As the night slowly creeps before the sun
Heroism only lasts so long
In these ever slowing days
i dunno why i came here
air is brutal
sun's too near
ten bucks for water
so i chug my beer
bass is screaming
i can't hear
thoughts over the speaker
tho i made it clear
i'd never come back in a million years
sorry for being a stick in the mud
i don't go out much these days
social anxiety coaxes out
demons in gestures most mundane
why'd that girl shoot me that look?
does she know all that it took
to get my butt out of-
(oh, i dropped my keys? oh thanks)
sorry for being a stick in the mud
i don't go out much these days
social anxiety coaxes out
demons in gestures most mundane
sorry for everything, i know you
wanted to see gojira play
social anxiety coaxes out
demons in gestures most mundane
Trying out a new chord progression.
land is wet
Reflective
The images are like a combination of something warm but desolate. It's kind of messy too, since we have patches of worn out grass and water. So it's hard to make it soothing or peaceful, since i don't consider it to be well....peaceful. More like a dark landscape.
I used this idea to make something very minimal and very slow, cursing along at 80bpm. It's also very rhythmical, employing a lot of synth and bass sequences all running in one note. The chords are also simple, i wanted to keep everything minimal with slow developments (Which is easy as this is 80bpm). It's very relaxing, but kind of groovy, i really like this one a lot. Hope you do too!
Fading from the earth
Dry world under sun
Descending to a dark
Where no life roams
Let flow, the water
Elements feed once again
Populate deserts with green
Dewdrops birthing signs of hope
The massive union
Of life begins
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- Recorded live with my Eurorack modular run through a reverb pedal
- A bunch of takes singing on top of it run through a vocal pedal
i've been wandering not cause i lost you
so why did i journey back, do i feel any stronger about you here,
in this place
that you once said was the loneliest dream
maybe you'll wake me up from it again
I cant listen in to the party tonight im sorry!
Through moor and fen they followed the light, ever fleeting, ever beyond reach.
started with a gritty industrial song, didn't like it, started something else, and crashed before i saved.
made in 15 minutes from a single take recording of whatever acoustically interesting things i could find around the house.
In here, your hopes are meaningless. In here, your prayers are just words. In here, life becomes death. In here, your future becomes your destiny.
watch the heron stalk thru the water
wading for food to feed its young
as the water reflects the sun
the grass starkly stares in black
As I find solace in the insects
singing a twilight song
Not a soul for miles to hate me
Its a not a home, Ill be right back
The Wetlands
And bring some french fries, I need a snack.
[verse]
All around me lies the marshlands
I'm surrounded by the large plants
In the muddy slick of meadows
I can meet up with my fellows
Making sure your boots are tightened
We can search the land and find it
Analyze the ecosystem
With a bit of effort in
[chorus]
We're here, under the sun, over the muck
Here for the answers, with some luck
We will dig in, research within
and we can walk knee-deep in
[verse]
Took some years, but we made progress
All the data worth the long trip
Take it back and catalogue it
Worth the dirt for scientists