International Solo Cymbal Contest 2005

2006.01.01: The ISCC is closed for entries now. A voting form be will be set up shortly on the cymbalholics forum at cymbalholic.com.
2005.12.05: The official deadline for ISCC entries is the end of year 2005 (GMT).
4 entries have been received so far.

Raphael of the well known cymbalholic discussion forum decided it would be fun to have a contest where each participant would make a short piece of music using just a single cymbal. The contest is open as of today, 2005.11.07.

Thus far, the rules are:

one player, one submission
only one single cymbal is allowed
any number of striking tools and playing techniques is welcome
submitted piece is 1 to 2 minutes long
recording is in mp3 format at 192 Kbit/s, joint stereo (see below
entries are submitted to ISCC Entry
after closing of the contest, the recordings will be anonymized, presented to the forum and voted on
The closing date is the end of 2005. Voting will be open shortly thereafter.
Interest provided, a CD with a presentation of the event may be created

Quick recording on Windows

Have a working microphone connected to your Windows based computer? Download the tools and unzip somwhere on your disk. A folder ISCC should occur. Open it. Double click mp3DirectCut. In the program, push [Rec], then [Play]. Recording starts. Use your Windows mixer to adjust volume. Click [Stop] when done. Cut off empty space at start and end by selecting with the mouse and pushing [Cut]. Click File/Save all... to save your edits. Answer yes to overwrite. A file named something like Recording-2005-11-07--16-33-40.mp3 should be found in the directory where you put mp3DirectCut. That's your recording. Send a e-mail containing your cymbalholic forum name with that file attached to ISCC Entry. You may include text and pictures describing your effort and procedure (nice to have on a prospective CD). Done.