Hello TPS,
We are so excited to announce the annual GP7 Music Competition!
Three years ago, the Senior Editors introduced this competition to present TPSers with a chance to display their musical talents and add variety to our pre-class music. While we have come to love our current GP7 tracks, we’re eager to have some new tunes to enhance our GP7 playlist.
How does all of this work? For this competition, we will accept submissions of original pieces, classical pieces, and other arrangements or songs within the public domain. The winning songs will be played on rotation in GP7 for the rest of the school year. All interested students must first submit their songs to gp7music@gmail.com by January 3rd. TPS’s clay Senior Editors (Mari Stanton and Julia Holmgren), Head Forums Moderator (Christine Niu), Fotia Directors (Amaya Leiby and Yeshuwa Varghese), and Yearbook Leaders (Isabel Rogers and Luke Shivik) will then judge the entries to pick out the top eight to ten pieces they receive. The pieces will be published on clay mid February, so that the TPS community can vote for their favorites. Once the public vote concludes, the resulting four most popular songs will play on rotation as GP7 room music for the rest of the year. This process should ensure that the classroom soundtrack has enough variety to give everyone a chance to listen to something they can enjoy.
If you or someone you know is interested in entering the contest, please review the guidelines listed below:
- You must be a current TPS student to submit music.
- All submissions must be sent to gp7music@gmail.com by January 3rd. Late entries will not be considered.
- We cannot use music that may be offensive or questionable to some TPS students. As a result, we cannot consider rap, rock, romance music, political or protest music, etc. Instrumentals are best. Music with soft vocals and digital (techno) music are also acceptable.
- Any submissions must be completely original to the contestant: composed, performed, and recorded by TPSers. One exception is music clearly in the public domain (all works published in 1924 or earlier), although the performance and recording should still be the contestant’s own.
- Submissions may be in any popular, accessible format (e.g. MP3) or may be links to an audio site. The file that is provided for use in GP7 will need to be originally recorded as an uncompressed WAV file of a high sample rate (please do NOT convert an MP3 file to an uncompressed WAV, as the file will become unusable in GP7).
- Please attach your song file to an email that includes your name/composer’s name, the song title, and the year of composition along with any other information you believe is relevant.
- We will only allow ONE submission per person.
Happy composing!
Mari Stanton and Julia Holmgren
clay Senior Editors 2021-2022
Photo Credit: Julia Holmgren