Twinkle Twister
“Twinkle Twister”…. a Children’s Day event for the grown ups!
UPDATE: The event is over. Click here for results.
The event was judged by Mr. Amit Trivedi. Mr. Trivedi is the Music Director of Aamir, one of the most innovative soundtracks of 2008 from Bollywood.
Sometime time back we asked our artists if they would wanna work on Nursery Rhymes. Crazy? True! But they gave us an overwhelming yes!
This was one competition that had uniqueness written all over it, and with the overwhelming number of entries we received, all we can say is wow! We bet you’d wanna sing them out loud, may be even dance to a few! We can imagine the kids saying ‘this isn’t what they taught us in school’!
After closing submissions for Twinkle Twister, people were asked to give their vote to the one they thought deserved to walk away with a prize money of Rs 10,000.
We have had a great run with all the events and competitions in the past, giving the listeners some of the best tracks on TempoStand. The TempoStand team designed this competition with the intention of generating not just quality compositions, but also a lot of fun tracks. The compositions we received had a lot of variety in terms of the genre and treatment of the original nursery rhyme. Every entry was individually analysed for its creativity, diversity and style.
Of the 48 entries received, the ones in the playlist below were shortlisted and were put up for public voting. Also Mr. Amit Trivedi (music director of ‘Aamir’) further judged these tracks and a weighted combination of both decided the winner.
Listen to the shortlisted entries below (in no particular order)
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The polling saw a tremendous response and came to a close on November 13 midnight. The results were announced subsequently on Children’s Day. Here are the results of the listener voting.
Vote for the rhyme that you liked the most
- Dil Bechara (Kamran Feat. Siddharth) (36%)
- Old Mac Donald (S n J) (26%)
- Yankee Doodle (Mrinalini) (23%)
- Baa Baa Blacksheep (Anispeed) (6%)
- Mama (SIDS) (3%)
- Miss Polly (Aakarshan) (2%)
- Three Rhymes (Magnus Roberts) (2%)
- Bachpan (Elektrokore) (1%)
- Hickory Dickory Dock (Elektrokore) (1%)
Loading ...The Twinkle Twister final results and podcast are available on the Children’s Day page.
See below for the event text:
Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are….
Surprised? Well we so loved this one, didn’t we! A nursery rhyme that has been sung over and over again, but in the same monotonous tone. Even the kids need a change now. They need it fresh, they need it cool, and they need TempoStand artists to help them out. This Children’s Day, lets revise our nursery rhymes, play around with them and sing them all over again. The challenge lies in increasing its appeal, so even the adults would wanna sing out their long forgotten nursery rhymes, and may be tap a feet or two.
TempoStand invites you to remember those years of childhood fun. Lets relive them this Children’s Day with our favourite Nursery Rhymes. Who says they are only meant for the kids?!
Send in your submissions by Nov 7 midnight.
(Update: Results were announced on Nov 14 here.)
Prize money: Rs. 10,000
The Rules are as follows:
1. The song(s) can be composed using only the lyrics of any known Nursery Rhyme of your choice, using your own original music/tune.
2. You are free to deviate from the original lyrics of the the nursery rhyme(s) used, but one must be able to relate a nursery rhyme to the final product.
3. More than one nursery rhyme can be used in a composition.
4. There is NO restriction on language or genre.
5. The Composition has to mailed in (.mp3) format to contact@tempostand.com, alongwith the lyrics and the original nursery rhyme it is based on.
6. Recording must be of a certain minimum quality like any other composition parked on TempoStand.
7. Use of derogatory words or/and sentences is strictly prohibited.
8. Decision of the Judges will be final and binding.
9. Tempostand reserves the right to disqualify any entry.
10. Instrumental compositions are allowed.
11. You can submit more than one composition.
All submissions will be licensed under “Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 India” license.
hey this sounds really promising.
I have seen cool videos on youtube i just wonder how much can one innovate in this. really nice initiative guys!!!
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goooood wrk.!!d band 2 watch out for.!!
my best wishes.!
rock on.!!
cheerzz.!!
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Hello. This is a nice concept. But one thing. Should our composition be of he same tune as the original rhyme or of different tune?
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Thanks Phalgunn! The tune/music has to be an original. Rule 1 has been redrafted to make that more clear.
Cheers!
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Dats an interesting concept !!
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Thats a nice concept. best of luck to all the participants!!!
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Good , go ahead
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hai kamran i heared u r song dil beacha ra i love u r song very much
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excellentttttttttt mamz
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hiiiiii mama rocks i think sidhant and his band is giong great and more vote should be given to them
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mama rocks i think sidhant and his band is going great give more votes to them
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Nov 9th, 2008 at 3:44 am
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