Additional Prizes from McFadden.

Grand Prize Winner

 After much ear stretching and chin scratching I’ve selected AngryBoyRulz’s Swimming to the Moon. If you believe as the winner for the Swimming to the Moon Remix Contest.

Honourable Mentions

 I’ve also come up with the following list of Honourable Mentions – bully for them making the selection of a winner such a challenge:

Grand Prize Winner

Sony headphones
ACID Pro software
Sound Forge software
Five Standard Loop Libraries
Merchandise from Robert McFadden


Here’s something new to ACIDplanet.com®; Robert McFadden is a Canadian jazz musician whose latest CD, TRAVELLING IN CURVES, was completely recorded and mixed with ACID Pro 6 (he’s since upgraded). In his own words: “I chose this unconventional approach because of ACID Pro’s ease of use (everything I needed is in the software), familiarity (I’ve been working with ACID since version 1.0), and flexibility (ease of editing and remix possibilities). Remixes are what brought me to jazz in the first place, and this is my way of closing the loop.”

Robert has provided us with “Swimming to the Moon” for remixing.

About the Artist

The music of Travelling in Curves sketches the emotional landscapes we traverse through the pleasures, surprises and challenges of daily life. Whispers of anticipation open to pools of certainty; clouds of doubt break in sweeps of exhilaration. These successions of feelings are traced through the individual tunes; sometimes within the space of a few bars. Pieces such as Souvenirs (deux/trois) riff on an emotional refrain, punctured periodically by secondary turns of memory. Others, like Second Thoughts, explore a wider range of emotional colours – some dark, some absurd, some hopeful: the palette of feelings many of us experience when having our own second thoughts.

The emotional transitions of Travelling in Curves are underscored by the writing, arrangements and performances of the ten original tunes on this album. Familiar sounds are infused with the pleasures of musical invention and genre bending. Blues, ballad and Spanish-inflected pieces develop as simple, logical motifs progress through surprising turns of time, form, and harmony. These are tunes played in reference to musical ideas rather than particular styles; music that thrives on the creative tension generated by mixing the familiar and the uncommon. This approach echoes in the album’s voices and languages. While the instrumentation of guitar, saxophone, piano, bass, and drums is well known to any listener of popular western music, the quintet on this album speaks with inflections originating in non-western and modern classical playing. A reflection of the players’ experience, these inflections also derive from the fresh compositional approach evident throughout the album.

Stretching forms and conventions has always been essential to Robert McFadden’s music. In Travelling in Curves, the processes and history of jazz are drawn upon as points of departure. “I wanted to know more about how players meeting for the first time could head off on that amazing rollercoaster of sound. I found this rich ferment of understandings, backgrounds, intentions: all those things that get people playing this music and moving it in new, unexpected directions.” To the casual listener, Robert’s recent music is jazz, pure and simple. To the jazz aficionado, these tunes have an outside feel that runs directly to the root of the jazz tradition. As Bill Strickland reminds us, “Jazz is a state of mind in which possibilities for innovation and discovery are revealed to you, and you are able to tap into deep reserves of commitment and passion.”(Bill Strickland, Moment by Moment, Jazz Times, February 2008, p.28)

In jazz, convictions, enquiries and epiphanies are usually the stuff of improvisation, with starting points provided by the players’ sound and experience, and the tune itself. Robert’s music extends this flow of connections by drawing upon familiar life experiences for the emotional source in his writing. It is music that looks to reveal, affirm, inspire and challenge our experience of music, the worlds in which we live, and our own self-perceptions.


For more information please visit:

Homepage:http://travellingincurves.com/

Tips

At 12:00 a.m. midnight PST on Saturday, December 30, 1899, the contest will be closed and no further uploads will be accepted. If you are new to ACIDplanet, you should create an account and upload a song as soon as possible so that you can work out any problems with uploading that you may encounter. Also, uploading a song can take a considerable amount of time. It's better not to wait until the last few hours of the contest to start uploading your entry.

Entrants must upload a Windows Media format or Real Media format version of their entry first. You will not be able to upload any additional formats after the contest closes, so if also you want to upload an mp3 version, please allow enough time to upload them both before the contest closing time.

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Contest Content Help

No Links? If you do not see the "zip" links to the contest loops, it may be because you are running firewall or security software with Ad Blocking turned on. If so, please temporarily turn it off and the links should appear.

What is the .acd file in the sample remix? The .acd file is an ACID project file that contains a sample remix made from eight to ten of the contest loops. It can help you learn how to use ACID, or give you ideas about remixing the track. You don't need to use it, but you'll at least want to download the sample remix so that you get the loops.

Can't open the ACID project file? The ACID project file (.acd file) is in ACID 5.0 format. It can be opened in ACID 5.0, but not in previous versions of ACID. If you using a previous version of ACID and you wish to view this file, you can either upgrade or download the current version ACID XPress in the Tools area of this page. However, you do not need to view the .acd file to enter the contest. You can simply use the loops in any version of ACID or in any other software.