Contest: THE 4 ELEMENTS: DEADLINE TO SUBMIT ENTRIES HAS PASSED, CONTEST CLOSED, VOTING TO BEGIN SOON!!

[Gavin Brown]

Hi Composers’ Forum members, as you know, the 4 elements are earth, air, fire, and water. For this proposed contest, you will write a piece of music of no more than 2 minutes duration based on one of these elements. Any instrumentation, any style of music. If the contest is a go, I will give 3 months for interested composers to submit their entries to me, which I will then put up anonymously. Voting will be by the membership of this site. You can submit entries for more than one element. An MP3 or link to a soundcloud/youtube/etc will be necessary. A PDF of the score is highly desirable, but not required. In order for this contest to be a go, 10 composers need to express interest by Sunday, Jan. 21 at 5 pm EST. To express interest, reply to this thread or send me a message. Please indicate in your expression of interest what element or elements you think you might want to compose for (you can change this later). Please note that I do not need any music at this time, just an expression of interest. I have run these contests before, they are a lot of fun and a good way to get feedback about your music from your peers, hope you can join us!

[Gavin Brown]

Thanks Gary! We now have 60 entrants, with 15 commits to Water, 8 commits to Earth, 11 commits to Fire, 8 commits to Air, and the rest general commits. The commits can be changed at any time.

[J David Ojeda]

Great...I would like to participate, I am going to think about AIR or FIRE.

[Gavin Brown]

Thanks J. David! We now have 61 entrants, with 15 commits to Water, 8 commits to Earth, 11 commits to Fire, 8 commits to Air, and the rest general commits. The commits can be changed at any time.

[Mita Lupa]

Sounds fun! I'm in for Earth.

[andrew thornton]

I have finished my entry [might do a different element as well] . So how do I submit my entry? 

I have the music file and a pdf for the score. 

[Gavin Brown]

Thanks Mita! We now have 62 entrants, with 15 commits to Water, 9 commits to Earth, 11 commits to Fire, 8 commits to Air, and the rest general commits. The commits can be changed at any time.

[Gavin Brown]

Hi Andrew, please send me a friend request on this site and I will accept and reply with instructions -

andrew thornton said:

I have finished my entry [might do a different element as well] . So how do I submit my entry? 

I have the music file and a pdf for the score. 

[Kevin Evans]

Hi All. I'm new to the forum. I'm in on this as well, and I'll do Air! (and maybe all four). Looking forward to hearing all the compositions.

[Dave Moorman]

I'm in. Probably Air and Fire - or a 5-song concert (including the Quintessential Essence)

[Gavin Brown]

Thanks Kevin and Dave! We now have 64 entrants, with 15 commits to Water, 9 commits to Earth, 11 commits to Fire, 9 commits to Air, and the rest general commits. The commits can be changed at any time.