Evan Allen - Csound 6 Hour Composition Challenge

This a piece based around the restraint of only using instruments from the Csound catalog, and the time limit of 6 hours. I wanted to create something that could show myself that I can compose and produce my own kind of music (progressive and electro house) with restraints such as this, and I think I achieved this.

I've been a member of Dr. Boulanger's Csound class this semester, and I'm posting a few of my compositions for you to hear. I would really love to know what you think, so that I can improve my future work in Csound which I hope to continue far beyond this class.

I've been a member of Dr. Boulanger's Csound class this semester, and I'm posting a few of my compositions for you to hear. I would really love to know what you think, so that I can improve my future work in Csound which I hope to continue far beyond this class.

This is my 6 hour challenge submission. We were allowed 6 hours in which to design or modify instruments in Csound and then use them to compose a piece of music in any sequencer of our choice, using samplers and anything else we so chose.

This is my submission to Dr. B's Six Hour CSound Challenge, titled "Just Us". I sampled sounds from the CSound Catalog, including those by Mikelson, Vargas, Smaragdis, and Comanjuncosas. Making a cameo is one of Comanjuncosas' 303 emulators, and some slices of one of Smaragdis' pieces I used Instances of Kontakt in Logic 8 to sequence the piece. I won Dr. B's stash of tea.

Most of the instruments are Hans Mikelson and some of my own. I tried to create a dance piece building it up from the first theme which the bass line plays. Basically I sampled the instruments and opened them in Kontakt and processed each of them from there. This is what came out during those 6 hours.