After a 6 month hiatus, 23 people working long hours to deliver the VAULTS experience we have been waiting for. VAULTS AT LAST COMES OUT OF BETA! Time for a new Vaults Composer Challenge…
What’s the challenge?
This month is your last chance to download the OG Crow Hill Vault Drop, the Attic Grand. Next month it will be replaced by a new, exciting free instrument.
For our very first composer challenge, to herald the start of our Vaults series, we asked you to compose a piece of happy, joyful music using the Attic Grand. To bid it a fond farewell, we would like you to compose a piece of sad, sorrowful music…
You can interpret that any way you choose: blues, lament, dirge… a mournful elegy to the Attic Grand!
All the details on how to participate can be found here.
Lovely piece! But like myself, I completed an entry and then went over the brief again before submission. At the very bottom it states; ‘Your piece should only feature the Attic Grand’. Currently revising my piece!!! Take care.
I’ve only ever submitted my previous composer challenge submissions to the demos email address, but in the spirit of being braver about sharing my work, here’s my submission for the Attic Grand farewell:
Perhaps it’s a bad sign that I feel compelled to offer an explanation, but the story here is that Attic Grand is a spacecraft - perhaps a bit like Voyager 1 - about to lose contact with Earth. As the batteries fail and the signal strength drops, this is the last we hear from it.
(A generative AI rendered me the attached image from prompts along these lines, which I thought was worth sharing. In some ways, bolting a giant engine to a piano seems like it has a Crow Hill vibe - imagine the overdrive - but equally this could have been the cover for a Richard-Clayderman-style album of piano covers of music from 80’s sci-fi.)
What a great instrument. Definitely not a winning entry below but it was fun to make with the fantastic Attic Piano. Just hope it doesn’t sound like fun!
Hi Crow Hill team - please accept this version as my entry for the Attic Grand composer challenge, which contains only Attic Grand, and not the previous one where I was v naughty and used other instruments too.
Hi Ali,
Well done! it’s a lovely piece you’ve created and in with a chance; I thinks!
You’ll find my attempt Massive Attic in the thread, couldn’t resist the title!
Lovely elegiac piece Ed!. Was that PianoRack effects at the end? It worked really well. It matched your concept of something fading out of contact. It made me feel like I was falling into a waterfall in some dramatic film.
Lovely job Kev! (loved the title too… hehe). It goes from melancholy to a strong celebratory feel… I’m imaging a well-loved but worn family piano being carted off to the second-hand shop as the children wave good bye… quite emotive. Good luck with it
Thank you Ali!
And the carting off, of that beloved piano was the other way around!
Myself and some friends saved a piano, left outside a second hand shop, on a snowy winters eve.
What a sight and sound, as it glided down my terraced street!
It took some tuning after that!!!
This is my submission to the Attic Grand challenge.
