Express Yourself Contest 2023 Submission Journal (closed)
a year ago
VOTING for WILDCARD ROUND OPEN < vote here
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Hello folks! Puppy here and you know what time it is, right?! This year we've changed the rules slightly, so make sure you read everything below before submitting! Everything you need to know can be found below!
WHAT IS THE EXPRESS YOURSELF CONTEST? WHAT IS THE PROCESS?
The contest is, well, to express yourself through a minute long (or less) musical piece. The first round is a Public Submission Round, meaning anyone can submit a song and so long as it abides to the rules, be considered.
The contest then undergoes a private voting round, where the songs from the Public Submission Round are placed on a rating criteria (see below) and at least fifteen are selected to move on. A few, the (5) that were rated the lowest of the top (15) but still show a lot of potential, will enter the Wildcard Round. The remaining, those that scored the highest on our rating criteria (again, see below) will be moved directly into the Semifinal Round. (2) of the songs in the Wildcard Round will move on to complete the Semifinal Round, making the Semifinal Round the top (12).
Both the Wildcard Round and the Semifinal Round will be publicly voted on by you, the community.
After the Semifinal Round, a Final Round consisting of 5 submissions will occur to pick this year's winning 3. This is also a public voting round. As an outcome to this round, the top 3 submissions will be chosen and prizes given (see Prizes below)!
THE RULES
Of course, this contest has rules. Failure to follow any of these rules could lead to your song being removed from the contest, or, in extreme cases, yourself to be disqualified.
Rule 1) Submit all songs for this contest to this journal, and in DIRECT response to the comment I posted below.
Rule 2) Your song must be one minute or less and every second past one minute will deduct points. Note: five seconds of reverb/fade after the minute mark is acceptable.
Rule 3) Your song must have been submitted to FA after this journal was posted, and made for the contest.
Rule 4) All genres are welcome, so long as your song is PG.
Rule 5) You may submit one song for the contest. Submit it below, under the designated comment.
Rule 6) Your submission must be submitted to FA. FA must be the only place where this submission is found.
Rule 7) You cannot modify your submission in any way after it is submitted to the contest. In the case of an extenuating circumstance, send me a note for permission to modify your submission.
Rule 8) The top 3 musicians from the most recent Express Yourself (2022) cannot participate.
Rule 9) No remixes or covers, and do not mention your username in the audio file!
Rule 10) Users submitting to the contest must own a user-page older than a month to be considered.
THE RATING CRITERIA
Our panel of judges and I have determined this to be how we will rate your submission and select them for the Semi-Final and Wildcard Rounds.
Technicality: /30
Mixing and mastering: /15
Cohesion and composition: /15
Musicality: /70
Originality: /45
Time Management: /25
Motivation*
Time Constraint
For every second over, points are deducted. A five second fade/reverb is permitted after the 1 minute mark if no new notes are played.
*Results in a bonus point. Those submitting are encouraged to explain how their submission(s) express themselves in the description of their submission.
PRIZES AND UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES
There's prizes!
Not a musician? We would love to work out a way to promote you.
See below for what's already set in stone.
+ 1st Place: A song of yours will be promoted as our featured submission for an entire year! You will receive a prepaid commission of your fursona from orcaowl. Free access to True North Audio's 2022-2023 VST and instrument catalogue. And...
+ 2nd Place: Free access to True North Audio's 2022-2023 VST and instrument catalogue. And...
+ 3rd Place: Free access to True North Audio's 2022-2023 VST and instrument catalogue. And...
As you can see, there is a lot of opportunity here for the non-musical members of our community. If you are interested in having your very own placement prize promoted like this, you can send Furry Musicians a note or DIRECTLY reply to the designated comment below. Yes, you will be paid.
With Fuzznet closing, we are also looking for a record label to support the prize pool! Send me a note on Furry Musicians if you are interested in putting your own forwards!
If you guys are interested in something other than my regular commissions, I've been working on vrchat avatars and would be willing to offer a reskin / remesh of one of my bases, or a new avatar as well! ^_^
there we thanks for the help this is not great but eh oh
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50851714/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/48093342/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/48103605/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51216715/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51290035
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51240033/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51216006/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50799226/
Glad you're enjoy ma works!
Doubt I'm gonna make it past the first round. :P
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51300249/
Good luck to everyone <3
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51302115/
Hope hope hope!!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51302883/
never entered a contest like this before, very nervous and excited to see what happens!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51304072
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51306288
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50702969
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50557261
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50575843
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50575773
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51310935/
I hope you like it ^w^
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51312203/
Also goodluck for everyone ^^
Love all
^^
Hey! Sorry for bein' so slow, I hope this finds well~!
Good luck, everyone~!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51319750/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51320326/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51334072/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51.....oad-successful
hope y'all like it :3
an old school big beat/breakbeat song about sandwiches is indeed something
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51343101/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51345979
awesome songs so far. hope you lot like this one too ^^
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51349512/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51352418/
I've struggled to fit this within a minute and I've attempted other tracks as well.
Being a new to music, I'm finding difficulty in making something short enough to participate. š£
I've fallen in love with this track as I can't stop listening to it.
So, I decided to submit it anyway as it deserves to live up to its title.
Thanks for the inspiration from this contest.
I wouldn't have made such lovely sounds otherwise. š
Good Luck for all of us!!!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/48985178
*hugs you all*
Here`s ma new work: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51367029 - For da Contest!
I remember that at the last Competition I received a commendation for the most unusual genre proposed - Opera.
Anyway, Good Luck for all of us!!!
*hugs you all*
However, this is my submission: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51368628/ (which didn't seem to play via the html5 media player)
Thank you :)
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51370522/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51378016
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51378498/
Here!
And it is officially 59 seconds long sorry for the fade don't tell me off sorry x
good luck everyone :3
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51388391
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51391045/
Good luck everyone!!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51397659/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51399742/
Thanks for encouraging me to leave my comfort zone and actually share some of my work, Puppy!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51401761/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51401814/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51403136/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51405079/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51415367/
my submission (btw fade out starts at 1:09, but you're the judge)
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51415672/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51428587/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51434043/
It was kinda hard to put everything in a minute but i did my best :p
Good luck everyone!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51450881
Blah and stuff..
Saw the banner and had to give this a stab. Even if it doesn't make it, this was a neat prompt to tinker with music again. Little funky space tune with some fun drums.
Thanks!
And only I wanted to say that the link is broken\incorrect, but you have already fixed everything.
Good luck!!!
*hugs*
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51483905/
This time with some happy, energetic and vocal DnB!
My first try on this thingie, good luck everyone!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51499227/
Re: motivation; i bought a music interface to give this a shot lol
Metal Forever! ALL RISE!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51517358/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51530775/
Best of luck! <3
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51556226
A little bit late, but I made it on time, I think. Very busy last days.
Rain: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51569629/
Still working on my character and don't even have a ref sheet, so I don't know if I can even qualify, but here it is anyways!
I am very happy to participate this year again ^w^
This is my first time ever entering an art or music contest... I'm really excited and curious! Good luck everyone!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51573841
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51575779/
Thank you and good luck all!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51580059/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51581431/
Was really proud of this one, good luck everyone!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51584089/
This was a lot of fun!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51585955/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51586872/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51588856/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51590480/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51593999/
enjoy!
~Puppy
If you are selected, here is the process:
One of my staff will reach out to confirm that you'd like to contribute to the prize. If you accept, we will prepay as if we are commissioning you, and leave you with a code. Say, for the sake of this example, you are drawing a prize for third place. When the third place musician gets their placement, they will send you a note with the code connected to the prepaid commission. From there, you will draw their sona as if they paid you.
If your posts become inflammatory, as they did last year, we will have to block you this time instead of giving a warning.
Thank you for your understanding.
~Puppy
too bad i suck at music lol
(but damn getting a drawing of my non-existant fursona would be great, could finally put it into reality lol)
Let me document some of our past 'winner' graphics. They have links to the individual songs:
2022: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47534020/
2021: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41058739/
2017/2018: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/26041214/
2016: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/19747588/
2015: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/16095210/
2014: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/12941305/
Enjoy~
~Puppy
also, i wouldnt FIGURE this would be an issue, but is it okay to expand upon a submission and then post the extended version to other sites?
However, after the contest has run it's course the musicians who submitted are allowed to share their work wherever they see fit.
i very much appreciate the person(s) responding to all of these comments, by the way, the communicativeness is very nice to see!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52078331/
[Translator]
AsegĆŗrate de publicar esto en el hilo correcto.
in for this n_n
March 8th?
It should probably stay there (not that I could get you to take it down if I wanted that instead). I would suggest, however, that you include that detail and similar in the main body of the rules. This could be Rule 10 (or take some other number while moving the existing rules forward), but it would also help to put the timeline in its own section right before or after the prize section.
~Puppy