This month we're doing things a little differently. The image you see here is to be the theme. The picture is entitled "Highway of Death" but don't let that distract you from making a tune inspired by the image itself. Broken machines, burning sand, tough times...all in a day's work for for us here at the Monthly Mission. So raise your blast shields and warm up your war machines, it's time to make another tune. Congrats to Analog Kid for submitting the winning pic for this months theme.

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pretty literal interpretation of the pic. someone survives the initial blast only to wake and slowly realize the destruction and death all around him/her. gear/software used: px-7, crystal, synth1, cheezemachine, mixed in Sonar

I decided to take the photo out of context - I've been in a foul mood lately, and fixating even more on the death and soul-crushing cruelty that's still going on over there would be bad for my head. Instead, I imagined a post-nuclear winter tribe of nomadic mutants stumbling upon the wreckage of this once-thriving highway. They proceed to disassemble the rusting radioactive hulks for parts to keep their makeshift convoy of diesel burning vehicles running. This piece was put together pretty hastily. I haven't had much free time lately, but I wanted to do something with a quirky metallic minimal techno feel. I used a pretty minimal setup, and what you hear is mostly just live takes all the way through. I think it came out pretty well, and it's completely different that anything I've done before. Gear used: FR-777 DRM1-MK II A ratchet My fingers in a ceiling fan

I've run out of free time for this theme, so i'm going to just post what i have. The focus of the track was on the events leading up to the war.

Chaos. Controlled chaos. If things seem like they're in order, it will in time all fall apart in the end. Controlled chaos is still chaos.

An attempt to convey a sense of an unseen, unstoppable, destuctive force smashing and tearing its way down the road.

I guess visually if you can imagine a steadycam shot weaving in amoungst the carnage and debris then this, mood piece - rather than a tune, is what the image evoked for me.... ... after I had shaken the image of Godzilla having just walked off screen.

I looked at that image, I wrote a track on my PX-7. I wanted to convey the desolate and the broken-ness that I saw in that picture. I also wanted to not suck.

This track's kinda dark and ambient. I tried to sort of give the feeling of standing in the middle of all of that debris and shit... I'm sure it would be rather isolating, and emotional. -Colin

hello friends, here's my highway of death. it's edited down to 3 and half minutes, the original turned out to be around 8 minutes...this edited version is mostly flute backed up by some percussion. hope someone will like it...

Another random collection of noises, basically i am trying to transform the emotions the image conveys to me into sound... Three tracks, three synths, one delay, one reverb, no sequencers. JX10, DW8000 and TG77

Here's my 2 minute epic. A small challenge for classical music officianados - I've used samples in this from a well known piece ......can anyone name it and the composer? For those that are interested this is what I used creating this track... Drums - RS7000. Bass, synth - Virus C. Additional strings, synth - Motif Rack. Orchestral percussion - Proteus 2000 Samples - A4000

Disco Punk bass w/ E-Mu Emulator filtered strings, pitch shifted vocal whispers, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas samples.

Well, here you go... my first entry into the monthly song thingy. I feel the urge to make a bunch of excuses, so I'll stop. There's a little bit of info on the page, gear, sounds, etc. Please let me know if there is anything else I'm supposed to put or do. [click username for webpage]

Runaway truck on a highway of death. Here's my track for the song thingy.

The two children escape through the frozen city using the maze of lifeless cars to avoid being captured. My first piece on my newly acquired EWQLSO Silver!