My entry for the FediVision Song Contest 2023, and the reason why I haven't done any songaweek entries for the last few weeks.

I gave myself 5 weeks to work on a track for the contest, but spent the first 3+ weeks on a different track which I eventually abandoned. I had the idea for this one earlier in the year and had a 15 second snippet (the bit starting "They're shining in the sun..") as a sketch, but had to write and record the rest and mix the track in about 9-10 days to hit the submission deadline!

Inspired by this Mastodon post from Kenn White: https://mastodon.social/@kennwhite/109755693493980838 – "Today I learned from @0xabad1dea that a lot of large solar farm owners use sheep herds to maintain their grass and they’re called solarpunk grazers and life seems a little better."

There's no "real" instruments or voices on this track, everything was done inside my DAW with plugins and my trusty Korg NanoKEY 2 keyboard.

Lyrics:

Under the sun 
Ground clouds graze
On green grass

In harmony
With earth and rays
Solarpunk grazers, free

No fumes
No waste
Solar bliss

They’re shining in the sun
Over grass and under sky
Fields upon fields of light
Field upon field so bright
Revolution has begun
Green power for everyone

Sheep roam and current flows
Beneath a radiant glow
Electric symphony
Infinite energy
But we’ve only just begun
Did we miss the starting gun?

Now the fires rage
And the forests shrink
Is it all too late

Ground clouds
Electric symphony
Solarpunk grazers, free

Fedivision 2023

Solarpunk Grazers

My entry into Fedivision2024.

You can vote for it until 26th May 2024 on Mastodon using the code IPGW

Here's how https://fedivision.party/vote/

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Keep the Mask (if it helps)

Keep The Mask (if it helps)

Key 13's winning(!!!) entry "Misaligned Aardvarks" for the 2024 Fedivision Song Contest, representing The Island of Nothing.

Misaligned Aardvarks

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A collaboration with @fennifith for the Fedivision song contest (https://fedivision.party/). We started off making a few rough projects to brainstorm, and ended up picking one to pass back and forth every week or so – where one of us would make a few changes in each iteration.

We got 12 votes, which was about twice what I had expected.

Fennifith Media Transmitter - Mauver than a Joopleberry

Check out my latest album at https://defaultmediatransmitter.bandcamp.com/album/transmit-simulations

My music projects
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Ice Line Drift (ambient minimalist beat-free rhythmic electro-prog inspired by Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis)

Replay in Neon (leftfield melodic electrocrunch)

The Midnight Detective Club (Vocals - Ellen (& sometimes me). Synthpop songs inspired by OMD, Eurythmics, Blancmange, Electric Youth, Yazoo)

Also some orchestral and alt-rock.

New tracks tagged #FediVision