LET'S GOOOO

Damn this is a cool one. I don't know if I'll be participating by submitting, but I'll be listening to what you cool cats come up with!

im so hyped

Prime directives
1. Don’t interfere with pre-space travel civilizations
2. Unless you want to show them some good music

i wonder if any completionists will attempt some kind of cohesive suite a la holst. i admit it will be difficult with the diverse formats but not beyond the capabilities of a BotBr to accomplish!!

it's time to shine >:)

NEEEEEAAAAAATTTT

OH MY GOD THIS IS ALL I HAVE EVER WANTED TIME TO UNLOCK SUPER SPACE AUTISM MODE

Astronomy?! I'm into this a lot

this is finally where some random celestial pads are gonna cook

i am so hyped, this might be something i can actually submit to

edit:
gonna be entirely honest, im highly doubting i'll make anything i'll like from this battle, if anything at all

welp.

Astronomer? I hardly know her!

Okay, for this battle, I proposed a challenge to myself: Make all sample-based format entries using one single samplepack, taken from a ProTracker module

I know I just failed to get anything done for Summer Chip but gosh if I ain't really excited for this

i might have to tap in for the first time in like 4 years

shout out to big guy uranus gotta be one of my favourite planets

Jupiter? I hardly kn-




_{okay I'll see myself out}

oh yeah we don't have Pluto anymore

I considered doing something for Jupiter involving the orbital resonance of its moons

, but I don't have time for this round, so I'm throwing this idea out there in the hope that someone is inspired by it.

If there was a battle with a general space theme, I'd love to do something with the orbital resonance of the HD 110067

system, whose six planets sing out a A𝄲7sus4 chord.

https://www.tiktok.com/@lrmsskevin/video/7493556500242140438
very tempted to make some shit like this and just read wikipedia articles

I just re-read the prompt and how it it said "8 rounds."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaKGfS7n2Ik

ive only JUST realised there's bitpacks.

i thought the planet was itself a bitpack ::sobus::



cant really do liveplay because i suffer skill issue but gl yall, curious to what you'll cook

I'm so ready for liveplay yesss

we guitarin it

venus of willendorf 🤤🤤

i can't play any instruments proficiently so i can't make a song about venus' sweet juicy perfectly spherical curves

singing is liveplay!! if you can sing a song about voluptuous venus then you can sing it over any backing track you make.

zoinks! Some people shared custom OPL3 patches in chat. Please link if I missed any!

agargara

kiloguy

damifortune

Yo, I put the OPL3 Furnace patches in a google drive! If anybody has more they want to add let me know!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mgtNd12wGi9i5ggl5dOEnTlV3Q2AZhYn?usp=sharing

Hi all! We’ve loved the participation so far. For those curious, here is the running for current potential completionists. Congrats to all who have entered!

agargara
bravoman
4channelsofnoise
lonestar
9sphere
sean
kaizokufish
mioh
jakerson
damifortune
syntheticgoddess

and now you can keep track of completionist progress on the lyceum page!

Ho I just realized! Maybe some of the remaining planets will have a non-audio based format :o

ok no it's all music

spoiler :o

who'da thunk everyone would stick it out through sunvox while pxtone would be the format to end 2 completionist runs. to the 9 surviving completionists: hold tight, the end's in sight!!

next entry gonna break the 7bit limit, we entering the byteverse

Well I talked about fsound on discord... but now that all the stars are aligned, my prediction for Earth is 🗿

the ways of the stars were inscrutable...

*sigh* Alright, let's rush an entry

Scratch that, I'm on a Chromebook. Musescore doesn't work on a Chromebook.

(And no mine does not support Linux, I checked)

ENJOY YOUR DWARF PLANET ROUND, SICKOS

For teh bonus round, please remember to use the provided samples. As usual they can be removed, or sliced and diced to a reasonable extent. We’ll never forget you Pluto

So will we get rounds for Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, Ceres, and Orcus

next?

*looks snobbishly at Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, Ceres, Orcus

Thanks to all 61 entrants! And congrats to these esteemed completionists as well:

agargara
4channelsofnoise
lonestar
9sphere
sean
kaizokufish
jakerson
damifortune
syntheticgoddess

Once again, if I missed anyone, please add in. I'm looking forward to voting on all a' these entries

roz & kilowatt: Thank you so much for this wonderful battle. Truly one of my favorite battles of all time. Inspiring bitpacks, great concept, great art and writing, interesting formats -- this battle has it all! I have really been enjoying everyone's entries too.

I released an album of all my planets tracks. I tried to re-use particular melodies and motifs throughout the battle to try to make a somewhat coherent suite. Serendipitously, they ended up having a pretty nice order in distance from the Sun, too! I did just a bit of light mastering to make sure all tracks were roughly the same loudness.

https://agargara.bandcamp.com/album/the-planets

Joining the album/EP/compilation gang:

https://9sphere.bandcamp.com/album/celestial

I fully agree with agargara as well: this battle was a wonderful experience to participate in, and it inspired me in a way no other battle has until now! The grandprix format might be the best thing ever, it's the perfect balance between not overthinking everything but still offering enough time to learn new tools & tricks.

all voted up! excellent work to all entrants, and huge thanks to our hostists. I think grandprix are my favorite style of battle. it was fun to do one that was a little more abstract in interpretation and wider in format scope - lots of very thoughtful takes, lots of folks trying something new...

looking forward to result stream next month!

I also like to thank roz & kilowatt for hosting this major! This was the first botb grandprix for me and I agree, seems to be my favourite battle format. Way easier for me to get into new formats with a single three day focus. Def not as overwhelming as Summer & Winterchip on me, but this will prolly fade with time.

Sunvox, pxcollab and Bambootracker are three tools I learned more about for The Planets and made my first stumblings with them in the major. Bambootracker was prolly my favourite of all the software I took for a first ride.
The major also created some still sustaining momentum, so I'm still working on some other things, which I'm happy about.

Content with my work for the most part, yet I realized my time's not efficiently distributed when working on music. Jupiter & Earth would've had the potential to be a lot better if I had kept em short & simple. I grow too attached to sections I write or think up & weirdness & experimentation always sneak back in, given enough time.

Not sure if my results are fit enough for a release. Definitely not without editing and cutting at least the longcats a great deal, but it's all spread apart anyways in terms of genre. However, I've learned A TON 🌺 and that is the most important for me~

Looking forward to complete voting soon and listen to all the fine releases coming from this major. Already I've heard so much great music from everyone!!

Tfw my mod16k is the only non IT entry lmao

Hm I could've been a completionist if I didn't skip liveplay and pxtone, but joining 7/9 rounds was fun ig. Thanks for the ride :))

Appreciating all the comments and folks sharing their bandcamp releases.

if anyone wants to quickly grab all the 16KB entries, here's a share.