The First Annual SCA Fight Song Contest

We had 7 highly varied entries in the SCA Fight Song Contest, but there was a clear winner: Dale Gleason's "Hip Hooray for the SCA", a Sousa-esque march with what appeared to be a mass chorus of men and women, but was actually two singers quadruple-tracked.

The tune garnered 24 points from the Judges Panel (with 30 being a perfect score), and Dale walked away with the Grand Prize Package, which included Motzart's Kazoo (with a copy of Motzart's Sonota for Kazoo, KV457) to encourage more compositions, and a potato gun with a round of ammo (i.e., two red potatoes) so he can fight off all who might stand in his way.

Congrats to Dale, and thanks to all the other contestants for participating.

First place: Hip Hooray for the SCA by Dale Gleason
Second Place: With my Prose by Tom McGurk
Third Place: Hire Me by Linda Sebenius
Runners up:
   A Shot of the Tonic by Celia Chavez
   Napalm Marimbas of the SCA by Korby Sears
   The Composers Battle Evil Forces by Mathew Bennett

Before the contest, local Roland rep Mike Smith demonstrated the new Roland VP-9000 VariPhrase Processor.

The Roland VP-9000 VariPhrase Processor is a revolutionary elastic audio processor capable of realtime manipulation of sampled phrases' pitch, time, and formant via MIDI while maintaining superb sound quality. Thanks to VariPhrase technology, the VP-9000 can instantly match loops from different sources to the same key and tempo, bend notes in realtime without changing the phrase length, modify the duration of notes held within a phrase, play a sample chordally in perfect synchronization, or add swing to a straight drum loop, all in a highly musical, non-destructive environment.

For more info, go to: http://www.rolandus.com/PRODUCTS/hardware/vp9000.htm

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