Uploaded "Spell Like Calvertron" remix contest entry to SoundCloud

A couple of days ago came across a contest with a nice first prize, not that I have much hope of winning it. It's a remix contest using music loops from a dubstep producer with the stage name of Calvertron. Contest sponsored by PrimeLoops.com. Decided to appeal to his vanity and called mine "Spell Like Calvertron". My piece uses loops from a nifty software version of Texas Instruments' Speak & Spell. My SoundCloud entry is under my Citizen of Halo 4 nom de plume.

Submitted third entry to Halo 4 Remix contest

Submitted my third entry to the Halo 4 Remix contest, a remix of the "Awakening" track. It's on my SoundCloud account I set up for the contest as well as via the Halo 4 Remix Contest site.

Uploaded "Tabla Mint Jam" excerpt to SoundCloud

Worked on this one over two days. The percussion beats are from REX loops of Indian instruments, with two or three different tabla parts. The guitarish and vox-like sounds were made from a single MIDI track I created and run through a couple of software synths and then enhanced, or mangled (in a good way I think), with Native Instruments' Guitar Rig software FX. The result is "Tabla Mint Jam", a one-minute excerpt from the five and half minute long jam you'll find on one of my SoundCloud accounts. I hope to upload the full version to Nimbit.

The f-bomb that keeps on ticking

What do actor Tom Hanks and the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama have in common?

They both used the f-bomb in October 2012.

Tom Hanks purposefully on a talk show while speaking in character from one of his roles in the movie Cloud Atlas and the Dalai through a transcription error while speaking at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Submitted two entries to Halo 4 Sountrack Remix Contest

Three tracks from the upcoming Halo 4 soundtrack are available for remixing in the Halo 4 Soundtrack Remix Contest. I've submitted two entries for "To Galaxy" and "Revival". Both remixes were created mostly by applying various sound effects.

You can listen to them through the contest Web site or via a SoundCloud account I set up as Citizen of Halo 4.

Submitted "Electron Ghosts in the Machine" to IndabaMusic.com weekly contest

IndabaMusic.com's weekly contest for October 3, 2012 is on the theme of spooky music for Halloween. I created a piece (no music loops were used) I called "Electron Ghosts in the Machine". I think it's very danceable, with a strong beat, and spooky in a techno-glitch sort of style.

Submitted entry to MIDIchords.com trance music contest

Submitted my entry to MIDIchords.com's trance music contest that closes October 5, 2012. Voing takes place between October 6 and November 2, 2012. As of October 2, only eight entries including mine, which I called "Take a Chance on Trance" (sadly, the title does not appear with my entry).