Flat's community of musicians includes people from all around the world. We are honored to have such a diverse group here, and we cherish the cultural richness that each of you brings to our community. We want to celebrate that diversity, giving everyone a fresh chance to share their culture!

We hope this challenge will be a celebration of diversity, a chance for us to learn from each other and appreciate the beauty of the different cultures in our group.

The challenge

For this challenge, create a piece of music that represents something important from your culture. It could be a traditional genre, a plant or animal from your region, a story, a tradition, a tribute to a musician from your hometown, or anything else that you're particularly proud of.

Instructions

  • The composition must be an original song created specifically for this challenge in Flat.
  • Collaborations are not allowed this time!
  • The song must be 1-3 minutes long. We know this is a very limited time but we're getting so many submissions lately, we want to make sure we can carefully review each of them❣️
  • You can only submit one score.
  • External audio sources can be used (doing so won't influence the results).
  • Add an explanation of the aspect of your culture that inspired your composition to the description of your score.
  • Deadline: May 31st. No late submissions.

Scoring system

βœ… Accuracy (30)

How well the song matches the theme of cultural roots.

βœ… Engagement (30)

How well your song captures the listener's attention for its entire duration.

βœ… Transitions (30)

How smooth and well-designed the song's transitions are (e.g. modulations).

βœ… Founder Enjoyment (2)

How much the founders of Tutteo, the company behind Flat, like your piece.

βœ… Last challenge winner enjoyment (8)

How much the winner of the last challenge likes your piece.

Bonus points

  • Join our Discord server (2 points).
  • This time the free users will get 5 extra points.
  • Write lyrics for your song (5 points).

πŸ₯‡ The score with the most points wins!

We'll announce the winner on the 9th June.

Prize

πŸ† One-year Premium subscription.

Additional incentives

  • Promotion in our blog and social media.
  • Special badge for a year showing you as the winner of this month's challenge!
  • You can help us choose next month's winner.

Submissions

Please send your submission πŸ‘‰πŸ½ here.

Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered.

⚠ Private scores cannot be reviewed! Please make your score public before submitting it.

After submitting, we will manually add your score to the Challenge tab on the Flat Community Page. This isn't an automatic process, so you'll have to have a bit of patience.

We can't wait to hear what you come up with!