Inspired by the 24 Hour Comics Day, the same challenge that spawned off the 48 Hour Film Fest and many others, Drown Radio started the Crate Digger Death Match to find out what 12 musicians can do with $12 worth of thrift-store finds in 12 hours or less. The challenge takes place next Saturday, January… Read More Crate-Digger Death Match Pits Producers Against Producers
ModernBeats has announced the 4 winners and 6 runner-ups of its third Hip Hop Beat Contest. In addition to receiving a total of $2,000 in cash prizes, the Top 10 winning music producers had their contest music forwarded to both MTV Networks and UK’s Active Music to be featured on worldwide shows, films, and commericals… Read More ModernBeats Contest#3 Winners Announced, Contest#4 Goes Worldwide
Music community mi7.com has announced a new music contest in conjunction with Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios. MI7 is offering one artist or band the chance to record in this legendary studio for three days. Musicians throughout the world can enter the contest for free by simply creating a profile at mi7.com, uploading some songs,… Read More Win 3 Days of Recording at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios
Andrew Hasenpflug sent word about a new music composition contest, the Kunstgegen Foundation 2007 Music for Modern Dance Performance Competition. Here are the details: The Kunstgegen Foundation 2007 Music for Modern Dance Performance Competition will go to the work that most exemplifies the qualities of interest, emotion, intellect, and compatibility with modern dance choreography. The… Read More Contest Offers $$’s For Music For Modern Dance
ModernBeats has launched a Beat Contest which offers $2,000 in cash prizes, plus $875 in music gear prizes for its winners: ModernBeats sound library users get a chance to show the Hip Hop music world what they’re made of. The best sounding, most original, most professionally produced hip hop beat/song wins. All you have to… Read More Win $1,000 For Your Massive Hip Hop Beats
Classical MIDI Connection, a website devoted to classical music MIDI sequences, has announced the First Annual Classical MIDI Sequencing Competition. The top 3 prizes will be chosen by expert judges and a People’s Choice Award will be decided by public vote. Over $1,000 in prizes will be awarded to the best contestants. Submissions are accepted… Read More MIDI Sequencing Competition Offers Over $1,000 In Prizes
The Red Bull Music Academy is currently accepting applications from DJs, MCs and musicians for the annual music workshop, which will be held in Toronto this fall. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Academy which provides a unique opportunity for up and coming artists to mix, mingle and learn from icons and artists… Read More Red Bull Music Academy Wants Your Mix Tape
Propellerhead has announced The Big Sounds Championships. The company is looking for shatteringly enormous sounds created using the Reason 3 Combinator. According to the company, “Now is the time for Reason users to share their Biggest Sounds for the Combinator with the user community.” Propellerhead’s Reason 3 introduced the Combinator device which allows for creating… Read More Propellerhead Wants Your Biggest Sounds
John Blacet has announced the winners of the Blacet Too Many Panels Design Contest. Blacet recently announced the contest, to help deal with his “extreme excess of Multi panels”. Budding synth module designers were challenged to make a useful synth module that used 5 jack holes, and one pot hole. The Winners: There were about… Read More Blacet Announces Synth Module Design Contest Winners
John Blacet sends an update on his extreme excess synth module design contest. Blacet recently announced a contest to solve an interesting design problem: create a synth module with a predetermined panel layout: “We have an extreme excess of Multi panels (do to a series of unfortunate events!). Rather than toss them, perhaps someone out… Read More Blacet Extreme Excess Modular Synth Design Contest Update
