Music. Count Us In is Australia’s biggest school music initiative. A project of Music. Play For Life, the campaign involves half a million students in Australian schools and culminates with everyone singing the same song at the same time.
RECOUNT is a new competition for young musicians at Australian secondary schools who want to remix, rewrite or rearrange the Music. Count Us In song.
What is it?
A new competition for high school students in year 9 and above.
Here’s your chance to take some or all of this year’s song and reinvent it. Instrumental only, with lyrics, a cappella…it’s up to you.
Give us a hip hop or dance mix, a band version, reinterpret the song, arrange it in another style, compose an alternative chorus or verses, change the lyrics, write a rap.
How do you do it?
You’ve got options! You could:
- Download the stem files of your choice from the studio recording of ‘Come Play Your Part’.
- Download the music notation
- Go to the Recount home page to download all the files
- Complete the online submission form and upload your mp3 via the Music. Count Us In website
Then What?
- The AYMC will be the Shortlisting Panel, so we’ll have a listen and send the best entries on to the National Judging Panel.
- Erinn Swan (AYMC member, A&R rep, and singer/songwriter) will be on the National Judging Panel alongside Program Ambassador, award-winning producer and musical director, John Foreman and Writer/producer, Audius.
Deadline
We’ll promote the best submissions as they come in, so get started as soon as you can. Submissions will not be accepted after 23rd August 2010.
Prizes
- 4 X Zoom R24 multi-track recording units, valued at $999 each! Featuring 24-track playback and 8-track simultaneous recording using SD memory cards, the R24 is the brand new digital multi-track recorder, audio interface, control surface and pad sampler combined.
- 6 x Zoom H1 handy recorders, valued at $199 each! Featuring Zoom’s renowned recording technology and studio quality microphones in the easiest, most portable device ever. Upload audio to PC or MAC via USB, use with video cameras… the possibilities are endless!
- Winning submissions will also be featured during the Music: Count Us In webstreams which beam out to millions of viewers as part of the culminating broadcasts on Thursday 2nd September 2010.
For all the info, online submission process, and most importantly the free downloads, go to the Recount home page’
To find out more about Music. Count Us In go to www.musiccountusin.org.au
Written by Masso
Tags: campaign/advocacy, MCA, music. play for life, national, recorded music, songwriting
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