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I Hope You Can See This Because I'm Doing It As Hard As I Can!

i sent it under e-mail adress: Kev0n05@aol.com
i'll re-send it with my bungie.net name...

  • 05.25.2006 6:13 AM PDT

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Okay, we have recieved your submission.

  • 05.25.2006 1:36 PM PDT
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Ahhh, school's out, and I finally found time to write the rest of my song. It's just over a minute long, and I think it's pretty cool... but I still have to find a way to put it into mp3 format. I'll send it as soon as I find out how to freaking do this.

[By the way, whoever tried explaining A major earlier, you're dumb. A major has F sharp, C sharp, and G sharp.]

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  • 05.26.2006 6:58 AM PDT
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I tried started to piece some things together but I just do not have time for this. I have to much on my plate right now. :(

  • 05.31.2006 11:32 AM PDT

Just to give a heads up, I submitted a short piece titled "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" tonight. Let me know, through PM or this thread, if you don't recieve it:-)

I haven't the slightest clue how to upload the short song to the net, but here's the description/inspiration for those of you interested in reading it:

Beginning of Halo 3:

A green field of grace lay under a hot rising sun. It is a beautiful scene; one of calm. The camera refocuses and the viewer realizes that this beautiful field of grace is, in fact, an up-close shot of John 117’s emerald armor. The rising sun is seen to be a scorching hot battle scar on John’s right breast plate, likely from a plasma bolt. John is running full speed… in slow motion… towards his fate. The camera slowly pans upward, and the viewer begins to see the reflection of the enemy in what's left of John’s busted visor, as well as catching a quick glimpse of his left eye before the camera unexpectedly pulls back and up into the sky. The camera briefly pauses in full view of a sea of fury: thousands of Covenant, yet John is running (guns full blazing) straight towards them. The camera then continues to pull back, further and further into the heavens, past the clouds, past hundreds of Covenant ships in orbit, into the emptyness of space, and then suddenly halts when the planet abruptly explodes. At this exact moment, when the intensity of the light given off from the exploding planet reaches it's peak, the camera refocuses the scene to be a lamp turning on in a cold dark room. In the background the viewer sees Dr. Halsey quickly sit up; she's just wakened, startled from a dream...


- Eagle 117

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  • 06.01.2006 12:39 AM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

Damn, that's pretty good Eagle!

  • 06.01.2006 1:56 AM PDT

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We've recieved your submission succesfully, Eagle 117. Just a reminder, this contest will end in four days. Please have your submissions entered before 12:00 AM.

  • 06.01.2006 10:17 AM PDT

Thanks Nedus!

[Edited on 6/1/2006]

  • 06.01.2006 5:33 PM PDT

Ok, so I figured out how to upload an audio file to the net. If anyone's interested in listening to Innocent Until Proven Guilty" click HERE.

- Eagle 117

P.S.
The song is best to listen to while reading my short description a few post up. Oh, and the play/download link is on the bottom left of the screen after a 10 sec. wait.

  • 06.02.2006 9:26 AM PDT
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nice piece. short and sweet.

one question that someone already answered about 2 weeks ago, but just to make sure:
the top pieces WILL be posted on the bungie.net home page right?

  • 06.02.2006 2:57 PM PDT

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The top piece will be submitted as a story and then accepting it will be upto Bungie. I'll submit the announcement and then make a thread here with the details. Expect a thread with the winner by June 10th at the very latest.

  • 06.02.2006 5:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: ODST1125
The top piece will be submitted as a story and then accepting it will be upto Bungie. I'll submit the announcement and then make a thread here with the details. Expect a thread with the winner by June 10th at the very latest.


sweet. yea, it would be sick to have the winning piece displayed on the bungie home page. I'm sure bungie would love that idea.

One question: say you guys really enjoy 2-3 of the top pieces. Instead of just posting the one winning piece, i was thinking maybe the top 3 or so pieces could be posted? just a thought.

For everyone who didn't make the top 3, they could just post their piece on this forum so at least some people would still be able to hear the hard work put into their art.

After all, the more pieces on display, and the easier it is for the halo fan population to hear them, the more people will take part in the next music contest :)

  • 06.03.2006 11:21 AM PDT
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Hey, did you guys get mine?

I sent mine a couple of days ago but haven't been able to get online for a while.

It came form Evilbluekoala@gmail.com.


Thanks

  • 06.03.2006 3:18 PM PDT
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I'm emailing a piece right now from cetinadj@muc.edu. Please reply and let me know that you received it. Thanks! I'm really excited about this.

[Edited on 6/3/2006]

  • 06.03.2006 6:21 PM PDT

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Both of your e-mails have been succesfully recieved!

  • 06.03.2006 9:23 PM PDT
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Sent. :)

And for those who do submit, I think it'd be fun to know what instrument you primarily play (if any). Because I know that my composing style was greatly determined by my upbringing as a violinist and playing in orchestras.

[Edited on 6/4/2006]

  • 06.04.2006 2:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: Plastic Chicken
Sent. :)

And for those who do submit, I think it'd be fun to know what instrument you primarily play (if any). Because I know that my composing style was greatly determined by my upbringing as a violinist and playing in orchestras.


I submitted a piece. I can play the drumkit well, but my more "orchestral" instrument is the piano, which I'm still practically a beginner at. I don't tend to be influenced by either, but the piano/keyboard is very useful for playing out melodies before finalising them. My style is most affected by the unhealthily large amount of soundtracks I listen to (primarily game, but also film).

  • 06.04.2006 3:07 AM PDT
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Posted by: Plastic Chicken
Sent. :)

And for those who do submit, I think it'd be fun to know what instrument you primarily play (if any). Because I know that my composing style was greatly determined by my upbringing as a violinist and playing in orchestras.


Ive been playing piano since third grade, and trombone since fifth. I am a diehard trombone player, and pretty good at the piano, but trombone ROCKS! :)

I'm almost a senior in high school right now, so I've been around music for a long time.

[Edited on 6/4/2006]

  • 06.04.2006 6:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: Eagle 117
Ok, so I figured out how to upload an audio file to the net. If anyone's interested in listening to Innocent Until Proven Guilty" click HERE.

- Eagle 117

P.S.
The song is best to listen to while reading my short description a few post up. Oh, and the play/download link is on the bottom left of the screen after a 10 sec. wait.


How do you upload audio files to the internet?

  • 06.04.2006 8:57 AM PDT
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How do you upload audio files to the internet?


How you do that depends on what kind of webspace you have. If you don't have space through your ISP (or, if you were in college, your school) then you'll have to use a free web hosting service. I can't really recommend one because the Biology department at Michigan Tech is crazy and gave me a whole gigabyte of web space. Just google "free web hosting" or something similar and go through the results until you find one that's decent.

After you make an account and sign in, most free web hosts should have a page you can use to upload stuff. You just click "Browse..." or "Choose File...", find the file, then click upload. Then you wait a really long time (if you're on dialup) for your computer to upload the file to the server.

If you're ISP gives you space, they may or may not have a web page you can use to upload. If not, you'll have to use an FTP client. You can find a bunch of these from any shareware download site. You log in to the ftp server with the same username/password you use to get online.

Ask more questions if you get into trouble.

[Edited on 6/4/2006]

  • 06.04.2006 10:31 AM PDT

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Posted by: Eagle 117
Ok, so I figured out how to upload an audio file to the net. If anyone's interested in listening to Innocent Until Proven Guilty" click HERE.

- Eagle 117

P.S.
The song is best to listen to while reading my short description a few post up. Oh, and the play/download link is on the bottom left of the screen after a 10 sec. wait.


How do you upload audio files to the internet?



Just go to the page I'm hosting mine on, and there should be a link to open your own account. It's free, easy, and fast:-)

- Eagle 117

  • 06.04.2006 10:58 AM PDT
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ok great, that's a lot of help. thanks

I wanted to post this trombone trio i did, which PROVES that trombones ROCK lol. let's see if i can figure this out...I'll edit this post and put it on here, just a sec...

OK i figured it out. SWEEET.

This is NOT my submitted piece lol. if this piece were put into halo, squirrels and ducks would start popping out and singing.

It only took me like 2 hours to make, so it's nothing special. It's just for you to figure out how much trombones ROCK!!! enjoy:

www.4shared.com/file/1909249/c9ac831f/happy_trombone_trio.htm

IMPORTANT: add an "l" (lower case L) after "htm" on the above URL...whenever i try to change it, the site gets messed up, so if you manually do it, it should be ok.

[Edited on 6/4/2006]

  • 06.04.2006 5:45 PM PDT

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***Please note that the music contest has now reached its deadline.***
-Judging will commence henceforth.

A big big thank you to all who have entered a piece, we will make sure they receive the credit they deserve.

[Edited on 6/5/2006]

  • 06.05.2006 3:59 AM PDT
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Hmm, crummy muffins. It would have been nice if my mail server sent me this message 12 hours after I sent my email and not 24!

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From: Brian Hempel <bnhempel (obfuscated for arachnids) mtu.edu>
Date: June 4, 2006 5:07:49 AM GMT-04:00
To: 7thcolumncontests@gmail.com
Subject: music contest

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  • 06.05.2006 9:11 AM PDT
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Mmmm. It's not so bad, I'm leaving tomorrow and would probably be out of contact for the winner announcement anyway. It'll be humorous if the email ever goes through. :)

You can still listen to my piece here:
http://www.bio.mtu.edu/~bnhempel/dragonfly.mp3

And the description is thus:

"The Poor Giant Dragonfly"
I wanted to try to imitate Marty's flowing string style from his mellow songs, because it's something I'm not very good at. Thus, "Dragonfly" draws inspiration from pieces such as "Remembrance," "Opening Suite," and "Heavy Price Paid" for instrumentation and a few techniques. Marty sometimes has low notes do stuff after the high notes have finished their theme, and you'll hear that a few times in "Dragonfly." Also, Marty sometimes has a select few notes (note?) of the chord hold through to the beginning of the next phrase. "Dragonfly" does this also. Beyond that, the piece developed in my style.

The name comes from the giant four-winged creatures flying around in Delta Halo and Regret. It's the "poor" dragonfly because if you bother to notice them, you probably also bother to shoot them. However, this piece takes place before you turn them into blood particles and loose polygons. Image them flying blissfully, taking joy in the air, sad when alone, but happy to be with friends. And if you want to imagine them flying exactly with the music, give them all iPods so they know when to fly up happily and when to chill down in lazy circles.

Unfortunately, all the parts in Halo where you first see the giant dragonflies are pretty hectic so this piece couldn't actually play then. In keeping with the flying thing, the best place for this piece is the banshee fight in Two Betrayals where the smooth string part from "Opening Suite" plays.

Made with Logic Express, encoded with LAME 3.97b2 standard preset

  • 06.05.2006 9:48 AM PDT