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Challenges and Dares Volume 1

by Graham McArthur

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Lament 07:48
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about

All tracks in this album are my submissions to exactly what the name suggests - Challenges and Dares. These challenges and dares come from the members of Ambient Online the internet home of where all the cool guys hang out. There are two challenges that occur often. The first is known as the One Sample Dare, and the other more recent challenge is known as the Image Inspired Dare. The Rules are simple, but strict, and restrictive otherwise there is no challenge.

In each challenge the previous winner's reward is to choose the next sample for the challenge. This is usually in the form of a field recording from anywhere between 20 seconds and 2 minutes. These recordings can be anything and everything. They are quite diverse and of course very challenging. In the other challenge the winner chooses the next image.

The Rules for the One Sample Dare are:

1. Additional samples, soundfonts, synths, samplers are NOT permitted (except instruments which will use only given contest sample loaded). Any other processing of contest sample is permitted.

2. You can use as many copies of original sample as you want, each processed with respect to Rule 1.

3. Time for submissions is 16 days, counted to midnight, UTC, of 16th day.

4. Submissions should be uploaded to place available for all AO members. Links should be posted in thread dedicated to given round. Please, do not use hosting with countdown, CAPTCHA and other obstacles.

5. Sample is provided under CC0 (public domain) license.

6. Winner of contest is chosen by votes of AO members.

7. Winner of contest chooses sample for next contest.

8. Participants SHOULD disclose the formula for winning track for the benefit of community.

The Image Inspired Dare is similar and was developed from the OSD challenge. This one is not so popular. I believe this is due to the quite difficult challenge of interpretation of an image. This one tests one's capacity for abstract thought and in spite of having basically no restrictions it is surprisingly difficult.

The Rules for the Image Inspired Dare are:

1. There are no restrictions as to how the track is created. All sound sources and processing methods are allowed as long as you have the rights to use them (ie. no sampling of copyrighted tracks, use only samples and recordings you've created or have the rights to etc).

2. The image is only an inspiration, you do not have to use it to generate any sounds (in an application such as Metasynth)

3. The challenge is open for one month. If you're a little late and the thread is still open then please post away or PM me (GaryG); this is a fun challenge and entries are more important than the deadline.

4. Submissions should be uploaded to a place available for all AO members. Links should be posted in thread dedicated to the given round. Please, do not use hosting with countdown, CAPTCHA and other obstacles.

5. Winner of contest is chosen by votes cast by AO members.

6. Winner of contest chooses the image for next contest. Photos, digital artwork, pencil sketches... All acceptable. The image can be hosted at Ambient Online or on a site such as Imgur if you feel a high quality copy is preferable.

7. Participants are encouraged to discuss their methods for the benefit of the community.

Volume 2 of my submissions is also being released today. Volume 3 will be released later in the year.
If you would like to see what we get up to at Ambient Online, please feel free to join us anytime. See what we do and how we do it and share your knowledge and likes. Ask questions or just join in with the chat. www.ambientonline.org

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released August 29, 2016

All tracks composed and mixed and mastered by Graham McArthur, 2015, 2016.
Thanks to 9153 creative (as always) for the album photograph and design.

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