The Ixyl Music Competition - Vote Now!

Post by **Kajun** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:03 am

The Ixyl Music Competition!

Hello! We got there in the end. I present to you now original compositions and recordings created by our very own members, over the past six weeks. I implore you to explore and indulge in them, and to give feedback by voting as below. The identity of the track creators is currently secret - all will be revealed after the votes and results are out.

We'll be making three votes for each track - if you can't be bothered with that, at least try to vote in the overall category. The results and rankings will be formed solely from the overall category: the other two are for interest only but will hopefully be very useful for the creator's info. The Concept/Composition category represents the guts behind the piece - the melodies and rhythms, plus the general idea; the Production category is how polished and committed the track sounds.

How To Vote

1. First, download each of the tracks listed below.
2. Listen to all tracks with open mind and ears.
3. Score each track, out of five, with five being highest and 1 being lowest, on the following three criteria: Overall, Concept/Composition, and Production.
4. Submit your marks to me, Kajun by private message only, by 30th July 2003.

Example template:

000.mp3 -
Overall: 4
Concept/Composition: 3
Production: 4

-10.mp3 -
Overall: 1
Concept/Composition: 2
Production: 0

The Tracks

041 (1.92Mb / 2:06)
106 (5.32Mb / 4:35)
241 (9.23Mb / 7:40)
612 (12.0Mb / 9:42)

Any problems, please let me know. To repeat: please send your three votes per track to me by private message only by 30th July. Other types of submission will not be included, and only one set of votes per member will be permitted.

Post by **Kajun** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:16 am

Addendum: the composers of each track are allowed to vote, but any votes for their own tracks will be stripped out and declared void.

Post by **Kajun** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 10:34 am

Added filesizes and lengths - please check these before listening.

Post by **Kajun** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:48 am

Reminder folks, we need your votes. So far the turnout has been supremely disappointing.

Hanohtep · Post by **Hanohtep** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:51 am

Still 6 more days - I've listened to them all once. I still need to decide on scores though.

heavy-rotation · Post by **heavy-rotation** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 10:17 am

I've listened too, and superb efforts they are. Scoring coming soon...

Ice · Post by **Ice** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:03 am

Just a yell to say I've voted and was highly impressed with all the entries and production on all was really top notch.

heavy-rotation · Post by **heavy-rotation** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 1:25 pm

Gahhh... this isn't fair, there are no bad pieces

Post by **Kajun** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 1:31 pm

Tough, innit. At least you won't be hurting anyone's feelings. For now.

heavy-rotation · Post by **heavy-rotation** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 1:44 pm

By the way, did you enter?

Post by **Kajun** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 1:44 pm

Also, reminder to the artists who submitted that you're allowed to vote as well! I'll just publically torture you if you vote for your own composition

(i.e. it won't be included in the final tally)

Post by **Kajun** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 2:02 pm

<does some calculations>

Actually, if only some of the composers vote, then we'll have to declare all the composer votes void, since it'll end up meaning some poor soul is WAY down on the votes.

(yeah, at the moment it's me

)

Penfold · Post by **Penfold** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 6:14 pm

I too am really very impressed. Want to give a little space and then listen to them again so I know what to expect, and then go from there.

Post by **Kajun** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 7:55 am

Two days to go, lads and lasses...

Wolf11 · Post by **Wolf11** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:05 pm

I will do my best to d/l them and vote...but the file sizes are huge for my 56k connection which is crap at the best of times

wish I had BB boo hoo

I,ve got to change isp in a day or so anyhow (stupid Tiscali moving the goal posts and adding a 150 hour limit pffft ) ....cos of overuse lol ...but I will try to get them tommorow

Wolf;)

MoneyPenny · Post by **MoneyPenny** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:18 pm

Tried to download them tonight but they crashed my machine

and I am on BB.

I will try again tomorrow night

Post by **Kajun** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:02 am

OK, any continuing problems please let me know, we can arrange a mirror or something. (MP?)

Ice · Post by **Ice** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:37 am

I can host a mirror if needs be on www.evaporated.co.uk. PM me if it's needed

MoneyPenny · Post by **MoneyPenny** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 6:16 pm

Blonde moment please ignore me as normal

Post by **Kajun** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 7:59 am

Idiot.

Thanks for the votes folks, please continue to send 'em in!

heavy-rotation · Post by **heavy-rotation** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 2:46 pm

When are you posting the results?

Post by **Kajun** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 5:31 pm

Soon. Need to get votes from all the writers first, otherwise I'll have to chuck three sets of votes out the window, which doesn't seem sensible...