Composer & Guitarist
Excellent UK music software company Spitfire Audio recently hosted a competition for composers to score a short NASA film using only the free version of their LABS Choir (a series of free virtual instruments I reviewed not too long ago - spoiler: they're really good). I only discovered the competition a couple of days before …
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Last night I thought I'd try a short composition challenge that composer Eric Whitacre mentions in a video interview titled 'It's Not a Failure, It's An Invitation'. In it, he says that the requirements for this exercise are to write a piece that is: - Less than 60 seconds long - Contains only 4 tones …
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