Autumn Jam 2023: Growth

The growth of an artist is a beautiful thing. Over the years, I have had the wonderful opportunity to watch multiple artists unlock their potential, learn new skills, and develop their own identity. Each person has their own story, their own experiences, their own influences and their own goals - nutrients that help them grow into the person they are today and the hero they will be tomorrow.

Every year in Autumn, we have a very special Chip Jam (a music contest where we compete to see who can make the best chiptune track) called the Autumn Jam. It marks one more year that this amazing community has endured and grown. For this Autumn Jam, I want to do something to celebrate the concept of growth - I want to see what you all have learned, how you learned it, and challenge you to learn even more.

Below are four categories - three music, one art - that all are open to participate in.

Categories:

#1: Originals

Show off what you have learned over the years with an original track. Go crazy with this one! Display a skill that you picked up, show off a style that some aren’t familiar with, or try something entirely new to you as a challenge to yourself!

#2: Covers

Cover a song that means something to you. It could be a song that inspires you, a song that motivates you to make music yourself, or a track that taught you a thing or two about music and helped you develop your skill set!

#3: Collaborations

Team up with your fellow artists and combine your skills to make an original track! Allow your styles to weave together to synthesize into something awesome. When we work together we learn from each other and become greater than ourselves.

#4: Artwork

Make some art to serve as the cover for this compilation! Use a nifty style or a technique that you picked up over the years. Be sure to encapsulate the message of growth! Get creative with it.

Rules and Regulations:

How to Submit:

Submit your song to the Google Form linked below. Be sure to fill out all the fields, and submit your track in .wav format!

Submit your tracks here.

Submit artwork to the Google Form linked below. Again, be sure to fill out all the fields!

Submit your artwork here.

After The Deadline:

All submitted tracks will be collected, sorted and streamed on our Twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/chiptunecafe on December 23rd, 2023 starting at 4 PM EST. After the stream, a votepack and form to vote for your favorite tracks will be released and posted to our website, the Discord server and elsewhere. The polls will be open until the end of the year, and we will announce the winners sometime on New Year’s Day (unless dr0nk gets too turnt at a New Years party in which case it may be delayed :p).

The completed tracks will be uploaded to our Bandcamp page. You are more than welcome to upload them wherever else you see fit! They’re your songs, after all.

Final Notes

As always, even though this is a competition, remember that the point of this Jam is never to win or prove a point - the objective is to grow, hone your skills, and have fun! We highly encourage everyone to enter regardless of skill level.

Good luck composing! We hope to see you in the compilation!