The Megasong Project
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 7:30 pm
Friends, I suggest discussing in this topic such a wonderful project as The Megasong Project. 
Seems to me that a special page is needed for this release. I understand that it may already be irrelevant, but still: what do you think of it?
Description:
"The Megasong Project is a demoscene music project initiated by Fabian Del Priore aka Rapture to bring together talented demoscene musicians and trackers from all over the world, combining their forces in one big music piece, which they bring together in collaboration; each participant is working on a part of the song (each one working on a few patterns or so), before it's the turn of the next participant and the tune is handed to him. The end result is a massive coop tune, but sounding as homogeneous and consistent as possible.
The first Megasong is made in Spacesynth (think Laserdance/Koto) style, but thinkable for the future are all kinds of styles with all kinds of different musicians, a different song length, different software to work with and so on and on, so the whole project is flexible to the max!
I would define and imagine the Megasong stating the following basic features:
Style: Whatever the given group of musicians can agree on, everything is possible: Chipmusic, Demomusic, Gamemusic, Soundtracker ST-01 / Earlymod, Techno, Trance, German folk musik, experimental, whatever… Mainthing is working together on a FUN project!
Length: Minimum 10 minutes, maximum 30 minutes
Number of participants: Minimum 5 participants, maximum: Open end, but we shouldn't exaggerate here or else organising it will be complicated.
Platform/Software: Depends. Could be anything from any tracker to any DAW (Digital Audio Workstation / music studio environment) like Steinberg Cubase. The music group must have roughly the same experience on the same platform. For DAW's like Renoise or Cubase, only freeware VST Plugins will be used (no commercial plugins) and exchanged between the group, so that every composer can take part on the project without any hassle!
For the first Mega song project, the following talented demoscene musicians could be engaged:
- Elrinth (Nicklas Holmgren)
- Rage (Harry Blom)
- Rapture (Fabian Del Priore)
- Serpent (Touko Väre)
- Silk (Robert Katsanos)
- Spiral (Mats Antonsson)
- Triton aka Shinobi (Marcus Andre Rousseau)
Every demoscene musician feeling talented and motivated enough is invited for exciting future Mega song projects!
Cheers, Rapture.
Details & specs on Megasong 1:
Song Name - Synergetique: Megasong 1
DAW/Tracker used - Renoise 2.8.0 x64
Style - Spacesynth
Number of participants - 7
Length - 26:00 mins.
Structure of Song:
Round 1
Rapture 00:00 - 01:24
Rage 01:24 - 02:41
Shinobi 02:41 - 04:21
Silk 04:21 - 06:54
Elrinth 06:54 - 08:03
Spiral 08:03 - 09:58
Serpent 09:59 - 11:38
Round 2
Rapture 11:38 - 13:41
Rage 13:41 - 15:29
Shinobi 15:29 - 17:39
Silk 17:39 - 19:04
Elrinth 19:04 - 21:53
Spiral 21:53 - 23:50
Serpent 23:50 - 26:00"
Seems to me that a special page is needed for this release. I understand that it may already be irrelevant, but still: what do you think of it?
"The Megasong Project is a demoscene music project initiated by Fabian Del Priore aka Rapture to bring together talented demoscene musicians and trackers from all over the world, combining their forces in one big music piece, which they bring together in collaboration; each participant is working on a part of the song (each one working on a few patterns or so), before it's the turn of the next participant and the tune is handed to him. The end result is a massive coop tune, but sounding as homogeneous and consistent as possible.
The first Megasong is made in Spacesynth (think Laserdance/Koto) style, but thinkable for the future are all kinds of styles with all kinds of different musicians, a different song length, different software to work with and so on and on, so the whole project is flexible to the max!
I would define and imagine the Megasong stating the following basic features:
Style: Whatever the given group of musicians can agree on, everything is possible: Chipmusic, Demomusic, Gamemusic, Soundtracker ST-01 / Earlymod, Techno, Trance, German folk musik, experimental, whatever… Mainthing is working together on a FUN project!
Length: Minimum 10 minutes, maximum 30 minutes
Number of participants: Minimum 5 participants, maximum: Open end, but we shouldn't exaggerate here or else organising it will be complicated.
Platform/Software: Depends. Could be anything from any tracker to any DAW (Digital Audio Workstation / music studio environment) like Steinberg Cubase. The music group must have roughly the same experience on the same platform. For DAW's like Renoise or Cubase, only freeware VST Plugins will be used (no commercial plugins) and exchanged between the group, so that every composer can take part on the project without any hassle!
For the first Mega song project, the following talented demoscene musicians could be engaged:
- Elrinth (Nicklas Holmgren)
- Rage (Harry Blom)
- Rapture (Fabian Del Priore)
- Serpent (Touko Väre)
- Silk (Robert Katsanos)
- Spiral (Mats Antonsson)
- Triton aka Shinobi (Marcus Andre Rousseau)
Every demoscene musician feeling talented and motivated enough is invited for exciting future Mega song projects!
Cheers, Rapture.
Details & specs on Megasong 1:
Song Name - Synergetique: Megasong 1
DAW/Tracker used - Renoise 2.8.0 x64
Style - Spacesynth
Number of participants - 7
Length - 26:00 mins.
Structure of Song:
Round 1
Rapture 00:00 - 01:24
Rage 01:24 - 02:41
Shinobi 02:41 - 04:21
Silk 04:21 - 06:54
Elrinth 06:54 - 08:03
Spiral 08:03 - 09:58
Serpent 09:59 - 11:38
Round 2
Rapture 11:38 - 13:41
Rage 13:41 - 15:29
Shinobi 15:29 - 17:39
Silk 17:39 - 19:04
Elrinth 19:04 - 21:53
Spiral 21:53 - 23:50
Serpent 23:50 - 26:00"
