I finally decided to check all these newly posted music in your Bandcamp. I remember having spent a lot of time listening to the old Raider's music, which have some of my favorite pieces among your music...
Have you ever thought about doing one of those music contests on Newgrounds they sometimes hold? There are contests where you can enter music, they are very welcoming (which is why I bother participating myself at all, since I'm not really much of a composer), if you compose non-Atonal Dreams music in your off time anyway, you might get a few new audience members from submitting your music there. There is of course also constructive criticism from the judge(s).
In particular, there recently was a "Video Game Music challenge" where you would pick a theme, and the guy in charge of that theme would give you a review, and everyone's encouraged to review others' works too, which we do. This one's not a contest, there are no winners, but it's cool to see everyone's approach on the same theme. This one's already over though.
In particular, Newgrounds annually holds the "Art-Inspired Music contest", where you choose an art piece from the art portal and submit a music inspired by that piece.
Anyway, I'm not saying you should do these, just thought it'd be good to know.
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Tobias 1104~3Y
I thought I replied to this a few days ago, whoops!
That's an interesting idea! I used to actively avoid other amateur composers due to comparison envy in the past, but recently I've been listening to a few who post on Twitter so that wouldn't be a barrier anymore. I also often wonder what to compose 'about' if not a game, so it'd be good for inspiration.
I haven't visited Newgrounds in years, so it's interesting hearing stuff like that's going on over there these days. I wonder if people form meaningful connections from commenting about each other's creations like that.
I'll keep this in mind. Do you have a link to anything relevant on Newgrounds, like a page about contests or something?
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Verdusk21~3Y
Music contests are posted in the Audio forum of Newgrounds, which can be found here: [LINK]
In addition, from the Newgrounds main page, you can see upcoming dates of events in the left side, including contest deadlines. This is normally how I find out about contests, since I don't bother checking the Audio forum regularly.
There isn't exactly a page about just contests in general, so I'm going to talk about specific contests below, for the reference.
The Art-Inspired Music contest which I mentioned, where you pick an art piece (drawing) from the Art portal and make a music based around it, is the only "regular" contest that I know of, being held annually. It appears that they've taken to hold this in July~August. Last year's thread, for the reference, can be found here: [LINK]
The recently finished Video Game Music challenge where you pick a theme to compose a video game music about, has its main thread here: [LINK]
And another thread that lists all the submission to this contest: [LINK]
A recently started, still ongoing contest for orchestral pieces can be seen here: [LINK]
Have you ever thought about doing one of those music contests on Newgrounds they sometimes hold? There are contests where you can enter music, they are very welcoming (which is why I bother participating myself at all, since I'm not really much of a composer), if you compose non-Atonal Dreams music in your off time anyway, you might get a few new audience members from submitting your music there. There is of course also constructive criticism from the judge(s).
In particular, there recently was a "Video Game Music challenge" where you would pick a theme, and the guy in charge of that theme would give you a review, and everyone's encouraged to review others' works too, which we do. This one's not a contest, there are no winners, but it's cool to see everyone's approach on the same theme. This one's already over though.
In particular, Newgrounds annually holds the "Art-Inspired Music contest", where you choose an art piece from the art portal and submit a music inspired by that piece.
Anyway, I'm not saying you should do these, just thought it'd be good to know.
That's an interesting idea! I used to actively avoid other amateur composers due to comparison envy in the past, but recently I've been listening to a few who post on Twitter so that wouldn't be a barrier anymore. I also often wonder what to compose 'about' if not a game, so it'd be good for inspiration.
I haven't visited Newgrounds in years, so it's interesting hearing stuff like that's going on over there these days. I wonder if people form meaningful connections from commenting about each other's creations like that.
I'll keep this in mind. Do you have a link to anything relevant on Newgrounds, like a page about contests or something?
In addition, from the Newgrounds main page, you can see upcoming dates of events in the left side, including contest deadlines. This is normally how I find out about contests, since I don't bother checking the Audio forum regularly.
There isn't exactly a page about just contests in general, so I'm going to talk about specific contests below, for the reference.
The Art-Inspired Music contest which I mentioned, where you pick an art piece (drawing) from the Art portal and make a music based around it, is the only "regular" contest that I know of, being held annually. It appears that they've taken to hold this in July~August. Last year's thread, for the reference, can be found here: [LINK]
The recently finished Video Game Music challenge where you pick a theme to compose a video game music about, has its main thread here: [LINK]
And another thread that lists all the submission to this contest: [LINK]
A recently started, still ongoing contest for orchestral pieces can be seen here:
[LINK]