ABLETON SUMMER MUSIC CHALLENGE

Join other creative young people around the world and take the Ableton Summer Music Challenge. Create a track, send it and share it to win amazing prizes from Ableton, Novation, Loopmasters and Soundcloud for you and your school.

Taking part is as easy as A-B-C:

Create a track
Submit a track
Win great prizes
Under 15s - submitted tracks
15-18s - submitted tracks

CREATE A TRACK

Any style, any instruments, and you don't have to make the track in Ableton Live. There are two age groups: under 15s and 15-18. Here are some resources from Ableton and Loopmasters to get you started.

START WITH A BEAT

Go on:

Create a track
Submit a track
Win great prizes

SUBMIT YOUR TRACK

Once your track is finished, post your track on Soundcloud. Then share the track, spread the word and get your track played. There are two age groups: under 15s and 15-18s.

Please note: Only ONE track per person. To enter the Ableton Summer Music Challenge, you must be 18 years or younger and currently enrolled at a government-accredited primary or secondary school. More information can be found below in the terms and conditions.

UNDER 15s
Take the Challenge!
15-18s
Take the Challenge!


The Soundcloud player makes it easy to share your track. Post your track wherever you want - tell your friends about it and get as many plays as you can.

Go on:

Create a track
Submit a track
Win great prizes

WIN GREAT PRIZES

The 25 tracks with the most plays will be presented as finalists to the jury, who will choose 1 winner in each age group. Each winner gets the grand prize:

For your school:
1x Ableton Live Intro Site License (multi-installation license)
15x Novation Launchpad
15x Novation Nio 2/4 Audio Interface
25x SoundCloud Lite Account (1 year)
1x Loopmaster Origins Collection

For you:
1x Ableton Suite
1x Novation Launchpad
1x Novation Nio 2/4 Audio Interface
1x Soundcloud Premium Account (1 year)
1x Loopmaster Gift Certificate (250 EUR value)
Create a track
Submit a track
Win great prizes

THE JURY

Dr. James Frankel

As Managing Director of SoundTree, the leader in music, audio and video technology solutions for educators, Dr. Frankel has been leading music education for the past two decades.

Having published more than 50 music education and technology books, articles, and journals, and has led music education at various institutions from Columbia University to Montclair State University to the New Jersey Public Schools.

http://www.jamesfrankel.com/
http://www.soundtree.com/

Andrew Phillpott

Andrew Phillpott is a producer, remixer, director and artist probably best know for his long standing musical relationship with Depeche Mode - he has toured with them, co-written a number of tracks on "Playing The Angel" and "Sounds Of The Universe" and produced and co-wrote Dave Gahan’s solo album "Hourglass".

In 2009 he established his own label We Collect Enemies in Berlin with Glen Brady (The Glass, Plant Music, Awesome Agency) and Daryl Bamonte (Depeche Mode, The Cure) to release their own music, as well as that of other artists.

"Slew" by Das Shadow and "OkiDoki" by Broad Bean Band, both produced by Phillpott, have been released to great critical acclaim with "The Dark Snuggler" by DJ Wool to follow in July 2010.

http://wecollectenemies.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/wecollectenemies

Bob Power

Few can boast to have had as remarkable career as Grammy and multi-platinum producer/mixer Bob Power. He has produced, recorded and mixed hundreds of urban, pop and jazz recordings, and has 40 charting records with more than 20 gold and platinum records to his name.

Bob also has advertising credits that include AT&T, Mercades and Coca Cola, and even makes time as a professor at NYC’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music.

http://www.bobpower.com/

Sascha Ring

Electronic Musician and Producer, Sascha Ring, aka Apparat, co-founded the German label Shitkatapult with Marco Haas (aka T. Raumschmiere) in early 1999. Two years later, he released his full-length debut, Multifunktionsebene, which quickly caught the attention of IDM fans worldwide.

In 2006, he collaborated with Bpitch Control labelhead/DJ Ellen Allien on the full-length Orchestra of Bubbles. Only one year later, Ring released perhaps his most important and boundary-crossing album, Walls.

Recently, Sascha Ring has been touring and recording with the Berlin-based group, Modeselektor, as Moderat. This collaboration has garnered the group top album and live act awards in from such influential media outlets as Resident Advisor, De:Bug, Grooves, IDJ and Pitchfork Media.

http://www.apparat.net/

TERMS & CONDITIONS

1. Eligibility

To be eligible for the Ableton Summer Music Challenge (henceforce “ASMC") you must:

  • be no older than 18 years of age as of 14 June 2010; if you are not 18 years of age, you must have explicit permission from a parent or legal guardian to participate in the ASMC;
  • be enrolled as full time student at a government-accredited compulsory primary or secondary institution (i.e. students of universities and other upper educational institutions are not eligible);
  • possess functional proficiency in the English language

You may not take part in this contest if you are an employee or family member of an employee of Ableton AG (henceforth “Ableton”), or its subsidiary, Focusrite Novation Limited, Loopmasters Limited, or SoundCloud Limited (henceforth "SoundCloud") or any company affiliated with these companies.

Ableton reserves the right to require you to provide proof of your age, residency and enrollment at your primary or secondary school.

2. Entering the ASMC

You will need access to a computer and the Internet to participate in this contest. Also, in submitting a track, an audio-based composition in a digital file format (e.g. AIFF, MP3 or WAV), for consideration in the ASMC, each user will have to have an online account at SoundCloud. Participants, who do not already possess an account on the online platform SoundCloud will have to create one for free, in the process of submitting their track to the ASMC.

The official ASMC website can be found at www.abletonsummermusicchallenge.com .

Eligible participants, who wish to enter the ASMC, must submit a track via their own SoundCloud accounts to one of the following two age-specific contest groups, that best represents their age:

  • 15 to 18 years of age
  • Younger than 15 years of age

Each contest group consists of a collection of submissions from individual ASMC participants, corresponding to only one (1) of the two aforementioned age categories.

Each contest group represents its own category for the ASMC. Each age group will be accessible via its own SoundCloud group and submission link, known as a Dropbox. By submitting a track via one of these Dropboxes, which requires each submitting party to already possess, or create, a SoundCloud account, each participant is confirming that his/her age falls into only one of the two age-specific contest categories.

All submissions must be received before 11:59:59 PM Central European Time, 30 September 2010 to be eligible for the Scholarship Contest. Any submission received after that time will be disregarded.

Each participant may submit only (1) one track to the ASMC. If multiple entries are found from a single participant, Ableton reserves the right to remove all but one of the entries from the participant’s respective ASMC group.

By submitting a track to the ASMC via a SoundCloud account, each participant is confirming his/her agreement with both these terms and conditions and SoundCloud's own account terms and conditions, as noted on the SoundCloud website.

You may be disqualified if you fail to comply with these terms and conditions or in certain other circumstances. See under "Disqualification" below.

3. The ASMC Contest

The ASMC begins on 8 June 2010 and runs until 11:59:59 PM Central European Time, 31 August 2010. When the ASMC closes on 31 August 2010, each submitted track will be ranked according to the number of triggered online plays it has received, using SoundCloud's player. The twenty-five (25) tracks in each age-specific contest category with the most number of triggered plays, will be submitted to a judging panel, or jury, for consideration in the grand prize selection as finalists.

The jury, selected by Ableton, will consist of four (4) members. The jury will listen to all fifty (50) finalist submissions and select a grand prize winner in each age-specific category.

4. The ASMC Prizes

There will be two types of prizes in the ASMC, grand prizes and runner-up prizes. In each case, each winning participant will receive an individual prize and a school prize for his/her affiliated government accredited primary or secondary institution of learning. For both age-specific categories, exactly (1) Individual Grand Prize, (1) School Grand Prize, twenty-four (24) Individual Runner-up prizes and twenty-four (24) School Runner-up prizes will be handed out.

School Grand Prize

1x Ableton Live Intro Site License (multi-installation license)
15x Novation Launchpad
15x Novation Nio 2/4 Audio Interface
25x SoundCloud Lite Account (1 year)
1x Loopmaster Origins Collection

Individual Grand Prize

1x Ableton Suite
1x Novation Launchpad
1x Novation Nio 2/4 Audio Interface
1x Soundcloud Premium Account (1 year)
1x Loopmaster Gift Certificate (250 EUR value)

School Runner-up Prize
 
1x Ableton Live Intro Site License (multi-installation license)

Individual Runner-up Prize

1x Ableton Live Intro

5. Disqualification

Ableton or the Jury can disqualify any contestant at any time if the Judging Panel has reasonable grounds to believe the contestant has:

  • breached or failed to comply with these Terms and Conditions; or
  • attempted to interfere with the ASMC competition process in any way, in each case whether before or after that contestant is selected as an invitee.

Attempts to interfere with the competition or Ableton’s own or subsidiary websites may be unlawful and could be criminal offenses. You may be liable to Ableton or its connected parties for any attempt to do so.

6. Judging Panel

The Judging Panel, or jury, will be made up from between 4 persons, selected by Ableton.

While finalist submissions are being judged on creative or artistic merit or other subjective criteria, the Jury and Ableton reserve the right not to select a winner, to remove or amend judging criteria and amend the structure and operation of the ASMC.

Decisions of Judging Panel are final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into.

7. Judging Criteria

The Judging Panel, or jury, will assess each submissions based on the following criteria:

  • The level of knowledge and skill demonstrated in each submission;
  • The amount of innovation and creativity demonstrated in each submission;
  • The submission's musical direction.

8. Administration of the Scholarship Contest

Ableton reserves the right to discontinue the contest at any time for any reason without notice.

Ableton reserves the right to change the rules at any time. Where possible Ableton will inform contestants of any changes to the rules in advance and will post the updated rules at www.abletonsummermusicchallenge.com .

If you feel you may be prevented from taking part in the ASMC due to any physical or mental disability, please contact asmc@ableton.com so that we may consider whether any special arrangements or concessions may need to be made for you.

Complaints about the running, but not the judging, of the ASMC contest may be made by writing to asmc@ableton.com . No complaint can be considered if made later than 6 October 2010.

9. Publicity

Ableton reserves the right to use the name, country of residence and name of affiliated institution of learning of any of the ASMC winners in any publicity relating to the ASMC without any further permissions and without making any payment to any of them. You consent to us doing this by your entry into the ASMC.

10. Technical malfunctions

Access to ASMC contest, its website and its associated online infrastructure via SoundCloud is provided to users and participants using the Internet. As such, access to the websites from your computer is dependant on a potentially large number of computer systems and networks operated by third parties, including users' and participants' ISPs, amongst others. Failures, errors or congestion in third party computer systems and networks could delay or prevent your ASMC submission from being considered. Ableton will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the continued operation of Ableton’s own computer systems and networks. Ableton is not responsible or liable to you in relation to any difficulties you may suffer caused by technical malfunctions caused outside of their reasonable control.

11. Other Terms

Ableton Summer Music Challenge Trademarks

"Ableton" is a trademark of Ableton AG. Contestant participants are not granted any rights to use "Ableton" by virtue of entering this contest.

"Novation", "Loopmasters" and "SoundCloud" are trademarks of their respective owners. Contestant participants are not granted any rights to use these terms by virtue of entering this contest.

You may not copy, display or publish any of those trademarks in any way unless you have express written permission from Ableton, Novation, Loopmasters and SoundCloud.

Governing law

The rules of the ASMC and any issues or disputes relating to them or the operation of the ASMC shall be governed by the laws of Germany. This does not affect any rights you may have under your national laws.

Events beyond the control of the organizers

Ableton is not responsible for any events beyond their reasonable control. Ableton may terminate the ASMC without a winner being named, or may withdraw any prizes, at any time if an event beyond their reasonable control prevents them from continuing the ASMC or offering any of the prizes.


Contest host

Ableton AG
Schönhauser Allee 6-7
D-10119 Berlin
Germany