THE LAST DAY of #Jamuary26: I made myself cry with this one exactly how I wanted to. It's been a challenging month to make music in, but none of those challenges were things like "I'm out of ideas" or "I don't want to make music today." I'm going to keep making art until I die. youtu.be/gDa-KmPOcl0
DAY THIRTY of #Jamuary26: I struggled with compression for a while, then other music hit my ears similarly. So it might just be every vein in my head throbbing because I only got 3 hours of sleep last night. Hopefully this sounds close to as cool as it felt when I started it. youtu.be/3I5X4lpnHMM
DAY TWENTY-NINE of #Jamuary26: Inspired by noise protests and so much rage. May this be a catharsis to those who wish they could scream, and anathema to those who should never get a good night's sleep again for the rest of their miserable, pathetic lives. youtu.be/9-wJfsl4JBE
DAY TWENTY-EIGHT of #Jamuary26: Something a bit nicer, but nothing ever stays that way. youtu.be/TQePW9P2nXE
DAY TWENTY-SEVEN of #Jamuary26: Today was a day for gothic industrial, but that makes it like virtually every day for me in the last 25 years. If only everything else were so stable. youtu.be/-sA6bIP3wtM
DAY TWENTY-SIX or #Jamuary26: This ended up being far more 70's-sounding than I planned, but one sound led to another, and they all just fit. I also, on a whim, decided to try a much more jazz-informed piano, kind of a poor-man's Mike Garson. Or a broke-man's Mike Garson. youtu.be/5kiLPrx3afI
DAY TWENTY-FIVE of #Jamuary26: Started at 12am because the looming snow storm might knock out my power. At the very least, I'll be shoveling all day, so I wanted to get this done first. Stuck to my favorite things, finding variations within. I really like this one. youtu.be/5435BNSyMVA
DAY TWENTY-FOUR of #Jamuary26: This might have become one of my favorites of the whole month so far. youtu.be/TRrQEDtIrZY
DAY TWENTY-THREE of #Jamuary26: Took inspiration from turn-of-the-millennium neoclassical rock, and added some other things. I don't know, it's a song (without the singing). youtu.be/S-V-LnUrpyM
DAY TWENTY-TWO of #Jamuary26: Been stressed out, so I gave myself an easier task with a track that's much more ambient than what I usually do. And if it isn't plainly obvious, yes, I did watch a Blade Runner last night. youtu.be/EBO5HNL0s3U
DAY TWENTY-ONE of #Jamuary26: Yesterday was an electronic track with rock elements; today is rock with electronic elements. I could have worked on this mix so much longer, but my time is limited. youtu.be/zyz6bjZM7lU
DAY TWENTY of #Jamuary26: Techno shit and guitar, I don't know; something fun on a stressful day. It's Bonkwave. youtu.be/WUNWWXTUyJY
DAY NINETEEN of #Jamuary26: I enjoyed making mixer feedback noise the other day, and wanted to do it again, incorporating it more into the track. youtu.be/8W3Sz54gD5E
DAY EIGHTEEN of #Jamuary26: Began playing with sounds, no direction. I know some of you'll say starting on an augmented chord & pitch-modulating guitars makes this #PostBonkwave, but the Mellotron and only two key signatures puts this squarely in the classic #Bonkwave category. youtu.be/Udkb-0ywLN0
DAY SEVENTEEN of #Jamuary26: More good ol' industrial, because I love it. I find I spend time making cool sounds just to cover them with other sounds--so this is an exercise in leaving space for things, which also makes the track better. Wonderful how that happens, huh. youtu.be/MoiYLiCEIHI
DAY SIXTEEN of #Jamuary26. In place of a melody is noise made by sending mixer feedback through my pedalboard, cut up and resampled. I decided to beat the song up, wanting to go too far and make things sound worse. I could have gone further, but I only have so much time in a day youtu.be/f4UMspesUIU
DAY FIFTEEN of #Jamuary26. I don't even know what this is--so I guess it's #Bonkwave. If you can't bonk to accordion, can it truly be said that you even bonk? youtu.be/A0R0EsjcaFw
DAY FOURTEEN of #Jamuary26. This is the kind of industrial rock I've wanted to make since I've been recording music. I'm very pleased to still be refining and discovering new ways to make things that would make younger me happy. youtu.be/8_F9rn1x3Qw
DAY THIRTEEN of #Jamuary26. Sought to keep it simple today, because this hell world is stressful. Instead of adding parts, I focused more on rhythm, and I'm happier for it. That's happy in the most relative sense, but at least I made more music. Hell needs more music. youtu.be/jDmc3y5BNVo
DAY TWELVE of #Jamuary26. Yesterday got me thinking about how I used to make music: weird guitar effects, taking cues from industrial, but not stopping there. My current sound is only a few steps evolved from that approach, but this still had echoes of earlier music of mine. youtu.be/QgKkH5uBziw
DAY ELEVEN of #Jamuary26. Wanted to write an angry rock song. Not sure how angry this ended up, but it was interesting to see how far I've strayed from rock-oriented songwriting, and fun to get back to it. Didn't think I was far away until I looked back at where I had traveled. youtu.be/1spfPKQlI9Y
DAY TEN of #Jamuary26. The delineations of electronic genres are lost on me, but let's call this some kind of... techno exploration. Of course, you could always call it #Bonkwave. youtu.be/5i7BBDxOEss
DAY NINE of #Jamuary26 is a little late because a goddamn plugin crashed and it was hell trying to get that track exported, but rest assured, everything was actually written and recorded before midnight. One of those tracks just had to be re-recorded. Several fucking times. youtu.be/lv1Ftdp1nEU
DAY EIGHT of #Jamuary26. This one ended up being far more whimsical than the last few days, which was a welcome distraction. Once I started manipulating the samples from a 40 year-old tape my dad recorded, I couldn't help but have fun. youtu.be/ymzHDxsPVfI
DAY SEVEN of #Jamuary26. Was still very angry today, but I did anger yesterday. So today I did sadness. youtu.be/NJt1lQpl4pQ
DAY FIVE of #Jamuary26. I went for a more subdued feel today, but still ended up using a lot of the same techniques I often do--just in pursuit of a different tone. youtu.be/dqawEGTmtoU
DAY FOUR of #Jamuary26 took too long. I got too ambitious about recording acoustic drums--which I had not set up for prior to today. After a manic reorientation of cables and mics, I didn't even have a clear idea of what I was going to play. Oh well. youtu.be/WIUSxOoBfsI
Photo of a white surface, wet with dew or light rain, with several yellow-orange leaves on it, curled in varying degrees. Photo by sideSister (@elsemusic@musician.social), submitted as a prompt for my Jamuary 2026 project. All rights reserved (by them).
Today's #Jamuary prompt is this photo of wet leaves! (See #AltText for more info/description). Photo by sideSister (@elsemusic@musician.social) All rights reserved (by them).
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