For a couple of years, some of my friends and I have been sharing music with one another. We’re supposed to review/rate whatever’s shared with us, but that doesn’t always happen.
Helm (2016)
Spencer had an friend ask if he wanted to participate in a music competition. They collaborated on a track and, as participants, they are asked to listen to all the submissions and give them a score, 1-5. It’s something different, but Spencer shared the whole lot with us: https://archive.org/details/OSC90Helm
This One Synth Competition essentially asks artists to, over the course of a month, use only the sound sample available from a single synthesizer to create a track, and it’s interesting to hear the variety of songs made from the same sound source – in this case Matt Tytel’s open source (which I assume is a unifying factor in these competitions) synth, Helm (which you can download yourself if you’d like). Continue reading
An American Audio-logue 