| |
Entries
shall be registered either:-
In person, by 2.00 p.m. on Saturday 14th June 2008 at the Croft
Suite
Or email, by noon on Friday 13th June 2008 to loanheadfest@googlemail.com
Songs must be the original work of the registered entrant.
Only
one entry per person.
Songs
can be performed in collaboration with other musicians.
All
vocals and instrumentation must be performed live with no pre-recorded
backing tracks or drum machines.
The
judges' decision is final.
The winner
will be presented with the Iain
McLennan Trophy and a cheque for £50.
|
|
Recycled
Instrument Competition
|
Entries
shall be submitted by 2.00 p.m. on Saturday 14th June 2008 at the
Croft Suite.
Multiple entries are permissible
The entries shall be the work of the entrants
The entrant (or his nominee) must play the entry The
object of the competition is to make a playable musical instrument
using as high a proportion of recycled material as possible.
The instrument
will be judged along the following lines:
Playability:
Has it got a reasonable range of notes? Has it got reasonable
volume? Does it stay reasonably in tune? Does it last long enough
to be handled and demonstrated? Note that the intention is not
to judge the musical skills of the player, and makers may choose
who should play it. The judges will make reasonable allowance
for the possibility that no-one has any idea how to play it properly.
Recycled content:
What percentage of recycled parts is incorporated? Is there a
history for the materials? Have they been saved from destruction?
Note that reclamation is the intent, ie salvaging material that
would otherwise be disposed of. Mere substitution, eg, stripping
parts off one instrument to put on another, would have low merit
- unless of course they were completely different types of instrument.
Supporting photographic evidence will be very helpful.
Novelty value:
Is any inventiveness or lateral thinking evident (even if it didn't
fully work)? The use of recycled items in unexpected ways (eg
using a car jack from a scrapyard to tension strings) would attract
higher scoring that sticking to more conservative designs.
General appearance:
Does the finished instrument have any aesthetic qualities, or
is it indeed the heap of crap that it first looked like? Judicious
use of pre-finished material might gain points. If it causes anyone
to burst out laughing, that's worth a point or two as well.
We will also
accept part-completed instruments as entries, though obviously
allowance will have to be made for the unfinished condition.
|
|
