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[Kyle Preston]

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Notes

Contest is simple: find a painting or picture that inspires you and write a song about it. Post the picture and your track along with any explanation you feel is important. The picture can be anything you want (even from another game, film, etc); if you’re inspired by a Zelda painting, have at it big dog.

Rules:
Generally speaking this is a no bad ideas contest, with one exception: your piece should match the tone of your chosen painting or picture. Example: if you choose Van Gogh’s Starry Night, a chip-tune battle theme is not your best bet. If you want to do an 8 bit style track, there is plenty of great pixel art around (especially here on TIGSource). Try and find patterns between your musical choices and the artistic choices of the painting or better yet, let it dictate what your musical choices are.

• Track should be ≥ 1 min please
• If there are enough entries, I'll pick 3 and then we'll vote
• Feedback will be given for each entry
• Your piece must be unique to this contest (no recycling)

Deadline: February 15th, 2015

Also, have fun, you nut.

[Aamp]

Nice.  Maybe I'll find something here that inspires me.  Great idea for the challenge !

[Kyle Preston]

Thanks Aamp, best of luck!

[Sam Oz]

Hi, this is the first time I participate in a contest, so I hope it is possible to dial from a video depicting a place ? it is not a picture, but this is a fixed plane... And sorry for my bad english...

I wanted to do something opposite of the current season, and propose a summer music ^^

it's a Hawaiian style of music, I hope you will apreciate 





Sam Oz

[cynicus]

I decided to pick this as an image, I found it on Deviantart and I thought it looked quite dramatic, but yeah, I really enjoyed this one!
https://soundcloud.com/cynicus/im-coming-home


Source: http://img00.deviantart.net/b647/i/2016/010/e/4/i_m_coming_home_by_hotamr-d9nhmtp.jpg

[Kyle Preston]

Awesome, keep those entries coming   

< 2 weeks left.

[de11ed]

Hi again guys!

Such a weird coincidence, I saw this picture and thought that it would be fun to make a piece inspired by that. And later that day I saw this thread here and thought, perfect! Two birds with one stone.

So here's my entree. Note that I imagined it being russia or similar countries, hence the russian folk music.
https://soundcloud.com/tedwennerstr-m/miners-after-work


http://www.deviantart.com/art/Miners-after-work-585278652

[Daniel Pellicer]

This is my submission:

https://soundcloud.com/danielpellicer/tigsource-musical-challenge-xlvi-beware-the-waves-of-cadiz

My father likes to paint water-colours so I decided to do music for one of his paintings. This is simply a wave in Cadiz (Spain) :D

[Kyle Preston]

Happy Valentine's Day! 

Some good stuff in here everybody, excited with the entries. Tomorrow is the deadline for submissions; so if you haven't started yet and you want to, you can spend your Valentine's day with your other other significant other, a.k.a. music.

[Aamp]

It's past the 14th my time but the forum post here on my end will still shows it isn't the 15th just yet.  I'm a a little under a year over the deadline of 2015! heheh so you can decide to exclude this entry but I wanted to share it anyway

https://soundcloud.com/aamptrack/we-met-here-years-ago

http://digital-art-gallery.com/picture/big/15019

I didn't get the image url since I just got Windows 10 and don't know how all to use it yet

The challenge inspired me to make track of a return to a now abandoned place with a significant other.  I kind of imagined playfulness and exploration.  I dreamed of this while writing and imagined the scene further; just beyond the forest were some roads leading to an also abandoned town and a big race event was planning to be held there so a bunch of people were heading in to clean and prep the roads to make a track gearing up for some fun

 

[MattZ2007]

Been a few years, haha.  Figured I might as well join in, so here is my entry for this one.

https://soundcloud.com/matt-pirtle/meditations

[Barendhoff]

Cool entries everybody! Looking forward to seeing Kyle's selection. (:

[Kyle Preston]

Awesome stuff everyone, gonna try and post feedback and the poll tomorrow afternoonish. So glad we got so many entries!

[giu926]

Hahah first time posting in this forum! This was fun to do, I tried to do something a little more atmospheric, it is not something I usually do. I've been meaning to do something with this picture for a while now. Hope you guys enjoy it!

https://soundcloud.com/user-403590069/little-heaven

Picture:http://i.imgur.com/xw58MpH.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/ (Check this guy out, amazing photos)

[Kyle Preston]

Only got about half way through the pieces, will post feedback and poll tomorrow morning for sure! It's kind of your fault though, there's a lot of good stuff in here guys, you didn't make my job easy.