The Music Production Club's Monthly Music Mission is a challenge to make a new song every month.
Each month we get materials, prompts, exercises, etc. to help jumpstart a new song.
Imagine finishing one song per month. That's 12 per year, a full album's worth!
A new album every year is a worthy goal for any artist!
Join the Music Production Club to participate: https://brianfunk.com/mpc

MPC Monthly Music Mission

Walk with me out of hiding.

Gray and green visions, heavy with worn out feelings,
Such a long time living in alternate realities.
Broken mirrors, shot-through glass, sounds so fierce and piercing, 
Shake the foundations, the anchors are gone, all gone. 

Under radiant skies, dawning over and over, 
Aching, restless nights, sinking lower and lower. 

Let’s do what we want, do it afraid,
Break ourselves open trying. 
The older we get, finding our way,
Walk with me out of hiding. 

Your mind is a crystal prison—delicate, sharp, and revealing,
Such a long time betting on finding inner solitude.
All of the voices calling you out crack the walls and ceilings, 
Shadows collapsing, the boundaries are gone, all gone. 

Rainfall, blistering sun, moon phase waxing and waning, 
See how far you have come,
Finally, something is changing. 

Let’s do what we want, do it afraid,
Break ourselves open trying. 
The older we get, finding our way,
Walk with me out of hiding. 

Let’s do what we want, who cares what they say,
Break ourselves open trying, 
The older we get, becoming more brave, 
Walk with me out of hiding. 

Hiding

Passion

Composition, Production, Mixing & Mastering by Hunter Wiley
Composition & Vocals by Nicolette Tura

Reclamation - Hunter Wiley x Pacho Nico

Lonely Frog

“keep hearing that voice” loops like a phrase you can’t forget—seductive, spectral, and strangely familiar.
Gritty synth textures meet warm, breathy vocals in a tight two-minute montage of late-night spiraling.


Keep Hearing That Voice

Here's a track made with my Telephone Voice Free Ableton Live Pack: https://brianfunk.com/blog/telephone-voice

They Will Never Know How You Feel

This is my submission to Brian Funk's Music Production Club for the month of April.  The theme was to use sudden changes in the track.  Brian gave us his Magic Kalimba Ableton Live Pack to use.  I automated the Magic Kalimba selection knob and put an arpeggiator on it to create sudden changes in the soundscape.  I also added a few pads and recorded a lead guitar melody near the end.  Thank you for listening!

Lost in Space

MPC Monthly Music Mission May

Goals for this music mission:

1 - Use an infrequently used resource
2 - Use a spring reverb impulse
3 - Use guitar chord sample

I used the Arturia MiniFreak, a synth I rarely use and wanted to get to know better, for all the synth sounds. I used the spring as a send for my general mix reverb. Gave it a touch of swing to get a groove.

MMM May - Freaky

Created during the Music Production Club Live Meeting. 45 minutes of music making and then we share our work with each other! Be part of the fun: https://brianfunk.com/mpc

Everything Feels New Again

My electronics are consumer grade,
Designed to keep you up and entertained, 
Compact disc, A to Z, VHS, laserdisc, DVD,
Betamax, Radio Shack,
Wanna see the future?
Let me take you back…

Let’s keep it digital and be discreet,
Quantize and synchronize our clocks to meet, 
CD-ROM, floppy disk,
What’s your alias?
Mine’s ‘Nyquist’
Press play, record at the same time, 
Let it roll and then rewind. 

All this emotion, 
Electrons in motion,
Let it take you for a ride,
Let’s get closer to the speed of light,
And be my…

Game Boy,
Promise me that you’re not gonna Walkman, 
This could be the Genesis of something real,
Using all my cheat codes so my heart can feel,
So tell me…

Game Boy,
Promise me that you’re not gonna Pacman, 
Leave me at the checkout feeling obsolete,
Will you find me in your memory?

I’ll be your message to the great beyond,
That golden record spinning all night long,
Electroplated, calculated, and dated,
I play a universal song.

Game Boy!

Monthly Music Mission for July. Used only the Brian Funk Cassette Synth pack for all instrument sounds, and for the theme of "On the Go" I produced the track only using my performance laptop. Got a glitchy vibe early on so rolled with it.

MMM July - Walktop

A Safe Journey

This was a fun Monthly Music Mission that turned out pretty difficult to pull off. I used only Brian Funk's COINOP pack and used only native Ableton effects. Working within these limitations was pretty rough, mainly because I was not very familiar with the tools as full-fledged Arturia addict... But I'm pretty pleased with the outcome.

MMM August - Checkpoint

Seeing you brings my head down,
Are you lost inside your final dream?
We don't know how to get out,
I don't know how to be. 

Being angry won't bring you back,
It won't give us one more day,
It's the knife that cuts into the past,
My only escape. 

Final Dream

Plains of Phantarune by Cormarin and Animus

uptownnew2

Music made using my COIN-OP 8-Bit Ableton Live Template: https://brianfunk.com/blog/coinop

Part of the Music Production Club Monthly Music Mission, August 2025: Create music for an adventure video game.
Music Production Club: https://brianfunk.com/mpc

Hot Pursuit

Back in Town

In a galaxy not far away, around a dying star, lies the orbit of a feline fortress- a planet just for us!
In a race against the expanding outer layers of our sun, we must open every portal until a brand new world is won. 
What evil may come?

Cloaked claws, powerful paws,
Veiled in magic mystery, our incantations rise.
Cloaked claws, this is our cause!
Be it fate or destiny, our future is in the sky.

Cloaked Claws

A song about times when I feel outside of myself. It can be unsettling or weird, but also sometimes freeing. Other than vocals, kick, and piano, all instruments in this song were made from sounds recorded in a span of 10 minutes around my apartment. Thanks to Brian Funk and Ableton for a cool found sounds speedrun challenge! The photo is my feet in slippers from a hotel in Madrid. 
Lyrics:
I'm living someone else's routine,
I'm living someone else's life,
I messed up essential parts of me,
I messed up the way I feel inside.

I woke up and thought I died,
I was just sleeping on my good side,
And as cold water falls over me,
I'm rearranging my beliefs.

I won't answer at this number,
I don't live here anymore.
If you need to reach me,
Just send out a postcard from where you want to be,
Maybe I can meet you there,
Maybe, we'll see.

Trapped inside of someone else's mind but they don't know that something's not right,
It's not too late to start over,
It's not too early to lose myself in the past,
I'd like to think the future is mine to choose.

I don't need another second,
I'm gonna buy them all!
If you don't believe me,
I'll send out a postcard from everywhere I'll be,
Now I'm feeling better,
Now I feel free.

Postcard

Musician, Producer, and Educator from New York. 
Host of the Music Production Podcast. 
Author of 5-Minute Music Producer. 
Berklee Online teacher. 
Ableton Certified Trainer.