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ATMOWORKS COMPILATION ALBUM

AtmoWorks will be releasing a compilation album this summer of 2009. The project is in currently in the embyronic stage and nothing has been started as of yet. We'd like to open this project to anyone and everyone. We'll take submissions up to April 1st, 2009, pretty much starting now.

We're looking for new artists we've never heard of as well as ones that are current AtmoWorks artists or others that are established. Once all the submissions have been received we'll go through them and pick out what fits the best. If we have a lot of really good material we may do it as a double album release or perhaps even in a series of releases. We've noticed a lot of our members on AtmoWorks are artists and very talented as well, so we'd like to tap this potential we have and get your voices heard.

More chatter on this coming soon as well as info on how to submit your compositions.

Cheers,

Vir Unis

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Permalink Reply by Michael on January 3, 2009 at 9:57pm: A very inspiring idea - anyone game to re-write Blade Runner ;-) I'd be keen to try some pieces inspired by the 1922 version of Nosferatu...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Scott M2 on January 4, 2009 at 3:33pm: It would take some organizing - but perhaps if there's an interesting silent film, easily obtainable
and less than 73 minutes - various artists would be assigned scenes or segments to score.
Then the final result would be played on your CD player while the film played on the DVD player.

I'm not volunteering to organize though. ;); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Vir Unis on January 4, 2009 at 5:10pm: Oh I think you own this one Scott....-:)

seriously, though, that's an interesting idea.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Nathan Youngblood on January 4, 2009 at 11:10pm: Vir Unis said:
Oh I think you own this one Scott....-:)

seriously, though, that's an interesting idea.

I like it!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Koch-Northrup on January 5, 2009 at 3:46pm: Admittedly - I'm more excited to just have a great collection of everyone's best tracks to start with. If a theme emerges while we're listening and compiling in April, May, June... then that's fantastic.

I always tend to write imaginary film soundtracks - so that bit works for me... but I don't want to reimagine an existing film this time around.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Vir Unis on January 5, 2009 at 3:48pm: I'd say it can be real or imagined....you choose.

John Koch-Northrup said:
Admittedly - I'm more excited to just have a great collection of everyone's best tracks to start with. If a theme emerges while we're listening and compiling in April, May, June... then that's fantastic.

I always tend to write imaginary film soundtracks - so that bit works for me... but I don't want to reimagine an existing film this time around.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Razzlog on January 5, 2009 at 5:05pm: I don't want to be a partybreaker, but setting a theme is kinda... restraining... it will definitely kill some creativity... on the other hand, if there's no strictly set theme, you can always imagine and create your music as a soundtrack to (non)existing movie, if you prefer it that way...
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Permalink Reply by Vir Unis on January 5, 2009 at 8:21pm: I was thinking that sometimes it's good to work with some constaints. I mean limitations are only opportunities to grow are they not? However, I'm open to anything. Let's keep the dialogue flowing as this is a big part of the overall process....

Razzlog said:
I don't want to be a partybreaker, but setting a theme is kinda... restraining... it will definitely kill some creativity... on the other hand, if there's no strictly set theme, you can always imagine and create your music as a soundtrack to (non)existing movie, if you prefer it that way...
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Permalink Reply by John Koch-Northrup on January 6, 2009 at 8:36am: I totally agree with working with constraints (well - you should know!) - working with only specific gear or within the confines of one genre - and I love themed projects.

I like keeping this particular project as a compilation of great tracks - if someone wants to imagine something - great - if not - great. Let's save a "themed" project for down the road...

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Permalink Reply by Scott M2 on January 6, 2009 at 8:31pm: My favourite comps are very loosely themed and curated by someone with
a good ear and vision (plus the ability to politely prune inappropriate works).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Koch-Northrup on January 6, 2009 at 8:39pm: Have to agree with that - many of my favorite comps fall into that description.

Scott M2 said:
My favourite comps are very loosely themed and curated by someone with
a good ear and vision (plus the ability to politely prune inappropriate works).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phaenon on January 6, 2009 at 10:08pm: I will gladly join your guys in this sound exploration.
Will bring a bit of dark tones with me... ;)
Szymon; ▶ Reply to This