The Challenge
Compose an original 30 second drum solo in Reason.
Use any devices and effects that you like. Don't brush this
challenge off too quickly. As you know in Reason there are several
devices you can use to create drum riffs. Will you trigger layered
sounds on an NN-XT? Will you use a Matrix device? This challenge
came to mind as I was trying to build a 4 bar crecendo roll.
Once I started exploring how to make it not sound superficial and like
a machine gun, I had a ball playing around with all the different
ways to create drum sounds with depth, personality and dynamics.
Go out on the edge with this challenge. The only criteria
are the following:
- Must be your original work
- Should be composed 100% in Reason
- Must be submitted by 11:59PM EST - Friday Sept 29, 2006 Submission time updated to Sunday Oct 1 at 11:59PM
- Should not exceed 30 seconds
- Should submit a write-up with how you approach the problem and a bit about your solution.
The Reward
2 Prizes will be awarded with this challenge!!!
- One winner will receive a $50.00 (Updated from $25) iTunes or
Amazon gift card (your choice)
- Two (Updated from 1) submitters will be chosen at random and receive a $25.00 iTunes
or Amazon gift card (your choice)
The Details (Updated)
Submit as often as you like but
only the latest will be posted for judging
but all will be posted after judging. Final submittal must be received by:
11:59PM EST - Friday Sept 29, 2006 (
Updated to Oct 1, 2006 at 11:59PM).
Submit on the member site.
All entries will be posted to
ReasonExchange to be voted on by your
peers. In the case of a tie, I will make the final decision.
I will follow up with the details for submitting entries.
Peer voting will take place (Updated) Oct 2 - Oct 9, 2006 and a new challenge
will be announced.
The "good faith contract". This challenge is for the fun of the
participants, be honest and respectful of your peers. You will maintain
the rights to all work that you submit, but agree to allowing the Reason
file and rendering to be posted on the web for others to view.
This may be expanded as needed.
Have fun!
- defconx
The spirit of the Reason Challenge. The Reason Challenge was born out
of a spirit of community, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. It provides a forum for
Reason users to enter into a friendly competition where they engage their peers
by sharing their implementation / composition to a challenge that has been proposed.
Although some proposed challenges may appear at surface to be trivial or "easy to
implement", these may provide the most effort in creativity. How do you take something
that is taken for granted, such as a drum riff, and creatively showcase that to stand on
its own? What new ideas can you allow to break out? I read an interview
with
BT where he stated, that as a music student,
one of the most challenging assignments he was given was to create an entire score with
only a few instruments. He went on to say, that the students had always felt challenged
to utilize as many instruments as they could, but now they were being forced to solve a
different problem. What would the more difficult assignment be, create a large
painting utilizing as many colors as you like, or to create the same painting with a
single color.
The second part of the Reason Challenge is the community which it
hopes to foster. How wonderful is it when we can break down borders, reign back
our egos and truly share with each other. This is the true spirit of education!
Not the sentiment that my way or idea is right or better than yours, but simply to
appreciate and enjoy the diversity that we find in other. For me personally,
I can be moved by a complex musical piece with many parts and I can equally be moved
by the artist who approached something simplisticly and had the strength to know that
more would not have been better, that it would have just been more. We all have
something we can share with each other. I have been both a sudent and a teacher in
my life and I have never learned more than when I took the role of teacher.
Appreciate the child who constantly questions, "But Why?".
The Reason Challenge will present a challenge to the Reason community such as, "Compose
a 30 second song which higlights a unique and creative way to utilize the Vocoder." Or
perhaps, "Compose the most realistic sounds of waves crashing on a beach using only a single
Subtractor." The participants will be asked to submit their composition along with a
description describing how they went about
solving the challenge. After the
submission date, the entries will be anonymously posted to
ReasonExchange.com for one week, to be voted on
by their peers. After one week of voting the top solution will be named. All
challenges and compositions (all entries) will remain on the site for future reference
and information.
Please feel free to provide feedback or suggestions...
- defconx
