A collection of my daily music-making exercise and quest to create new tracks regularly. Includes #1minmusic, #shorts, #newideas and #jingles. My hope in doing these is that this will be a manageable way to a) create music regularly; and b) experiment with music video AI and YouTube Shorts. Speaking of which, you can view all of those videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA9zUl2cz523DEvsX4pBTZfl2rVDZmKun

Mahalo!

Shorts + Jingles + Singles

#Jamuary Morning Sessions by Wunderfish  ·  Monday, January 10, 2022  ·  Today's music writing prompt: "You are walking barefoot across moist soil"  ·  Oblique Strategy: “Distorting time”  ·  Official releases available on wunderfish.com and your favorite streaming platforms  ·  All daily Morning Sessions tracks are posted to Soundcloud (@wunderfish)  ·  Contact: info@wunderfish.com  ·  Streaming concurrently on Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube  ·

#Jamuary Morning Sessions - January 10, 2022 - "You are walking barefoot across moist soil"

created as part of 'Jamuary 23' which is a challenge to create 1 piece of music per day in January

Egypty

Ways and Means

created as part of jamuary 23 which is a challenge to create 1 piece of music per day in Jamuary

Coffee Break

Glitch

Vocals & lyrics: Neons Gone Mad

Watch Neons Gone Mad’s great video for this song:

https://youtu.be/bgX1uHX9wWY



"Unfold Me"

Lyrics by Craig Conley,
after a riddle by James Hoggarth (1880)

Anywhere
that you go
you'll behold me

Woodlands and
pastures I
sometimes abound

On your travels
you will surely unfold me

I've thousands of annums roll'd a-ground
In cottage and mansion I am seen
Not a stitch of clothing clings to my form
Not a toe or a foot to my being
Yet countless shoes any size oh have I worn

Anywhere that you go you'll behold me
Wander far, wander wide, you'll unfold me
Now the secret I'll reveal: my name is dust

Unfold me - ft. Neons Gone Mad

I'm thrilled to present a clockworked remix by Neons Gone Mad (@prof-oddfellow) of Snail and the Lost Duckling. The original track was the last track (and one of my favorites) off of my album 'Afraid of the Dark.' Neons Gone Mad darkened the mood by writing lyrics and adding their signature clockwork sound to the track. I hope you enjoy this haunting lullaby.

Be sure to check out the accompanying video here: 
https://youtu.be/-gTmAO9wmYA

Check out more from Neons Gone Mad: https://soundcloud.com/prof-oddfellow

And here's the original album version of Snail and Lost Duckling: https://soundcloud.com/wunderfish/snail-and-the-lost-duckling

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Lyrics & haunted clockwork remix by Neons Gone Mad

Spirit voice: "Great white priestess, let the sacrifice begin. The blood moon grows pale in the sky beyond the mouth of the grotto."

Spirit voice: "There must be no more human sacrifice. The old gods are sick of blood. They command you to go back to your homes, back to the churches of the one god. Hear me!"

False mediums
donned in white coats
material-
istic egoed
inquisitors
won't be questioned
as they entrance
billy-pot goats

Ev'ry science
seance ends in
human sacri-
fice because the
idol of ma-
t'rialism
determines the
closing price

Lights in the sky
Lights in the sky

Spirit voice: "They say these are just weird lights in the sky that they're seeing, and I'm thinking maybe they're sprites or something else, but still it's worthy of talking about because of how strange things are getting right now."

They tell us to pray

Spirit voice: "They tell us to pray without ceasing."

Human Sacrifice (The remixed adventure of Snail and Lost Duckling) - Wunderfish x Neons Gone Mad

RMF (Rhythm Music Fest)

Cantos (Sacramento, Ca) 
HMNI (Hello My Name Is) | HMNI Music record label
 
Recorded live Oct 7th 2023
Closing set (Stage2)

Old Sacramento Waterfront
Sacramento, Ca

Rhythmmusicfest.com

Latest release on Nervous Records  
https://www.traxsource.com/track/11349895/promise-the-day
https://www.beatport.com/release/promise-the-day/4219881

RMF 2023 - Cantos (Stage 2 closing set)

The Raven - 11.30.2023

OK, so after making dozens of #1minute music tracks over the past few months, I realize that the track time limits can stifle some creativity. They also probably take just as long if not longer to create. So I’ve amended my exercise to be simply “Shorts.” 

Today’s exercise is called “The Raven.” It started with a drones I created in #PaulXStretch of an old time radio sample (you can hear the unedited clip at the beginning and end of the track. Continued my experimentation with #Valhalla #Supermassive. The #FMSynth engine of the #OP1Field was used for the lead, and #uhe #Repro1 was used for the bassline. #Roland’s #TR8S FM engine run through some effects pedals was used for the drums. But the effects (Supermassive and #BabyAudio #Transit) along with the drone are what creates the overall mood on this one.

The accompanying #musicvideo illustrating the track’s concept can be viewed here: https://youtube.com/@wndrfsh

If you like this track - or the daily exercise of creating new music along with an accompanying video, please consider liking, subscribing, following, etc. Thanks for listening! 

#1minmusic #oneminutemusic #synthesizers #synthesisers #op1andchill #op1field #Ableton #AbletonLive11 #analogsynths #FMsynths #digitalsynths #electronicmusic #musicproducers #musicmaking #musicvideo #kaiber #kaiberAI

The Raven - 11.30.2023

Skyway - 01.17.2024

Finally getting around to #Jamuary2024. This is one I composed on holiday at the MEL airport on the #OP1Field. We were delayed several hours and luckily my battery held up for a little #ambient jam. Ended up adding a simple beat on the #TR8S when I got home.

I envisioned watercolors when making this track. Started working in Videosync in Ableton so this is my first experiment with that tool.

If you’re interested in booking a show featuring this type of sound + vision, DM me on this channel. While I’m based in Honolulu, I am open to bookings worldwide.

Here are a few links to some of my other work:

https://wunderfish.com

https://youtube.com/@wndrfsh

https://soundcloud.com/wunderfish

If you like this track - or the daily exercise of creating new music along with an accompanying video, please consider liking, subscribing, following, etc. Thanks for listening! 

#synthesizers #synthesisers #op1andchill #op1field #Ableton #AbletonLive #analogsynths #FMsynths #digitalsynths #electronicmusic #musicproducers #musicmaking #musicvideo #kaiber #kaiberAI #liveelectronicmusic #electronicmusicshorts #ambient #videosync

Skyway

Full video available on my YouTube channel and website: https://youtu.be/W0dDLu0SvNE

Finally listening to what my plants have to say. It's always unexpected and sometimes beautiful. 

Original version was made on an #OP1field during a trip to Melbourne when I was suffering from something food-borne. Came back home to find a #PlantWave, immediately hooked it up to my snake plant (see Instagram for the accompanying artist's portrait) and was able to add my plant's communication signals to this track. Quite a fun #jamuary jam.

#jamuary2024

Photosynthetic

02.02.2024

The Things We Tell Ourselves was written with the help of some of my houseplants - capturing their bio-electric signals using a Plantwave and applying it to a mixture of hardware and software synths. 

Accompanying music video available on YouTube.

With love,
Wunderfish
02.02.2024

#cinematic #ambient #plantwave #miyazaki #studioghibli #op1field #electronicmusic #analogsynths #ableton #synthesizers #kaiberai #plantmusic

The Things We Tell Ourselves

The Raven is a dark tale inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe. I recently spent time in Baltimore, MD where the initial idea was born. The prominent, distorted drum beats represent the raven, while the instrumentation and sound designed synth elements represent society. As the raven soars above "society," it observes not only death and destruction, but also calm and beauty within individual stories in our world.

The Raven

A textural cinematic track released on March 15, 2024.

Biennial

It was amazing to get to work on this. Thank you Nine Inch Nails for making the original track re-mixable, and Neons Gone Mad for including me in this fun collaboration. You're all legends!

The original Nine Inch Nails track, licensed through Creative Commons, is here: https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV

After seeing Neons Gone Mad's video with positive vibes of newspaper headlines through the ages that they had found, I decided to try to sing along to those. This was done in one take, and they were kind enough to produce it for me. They also made a new video edit to go with it, this one's in colour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioOmT4R6sk (here's the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuwv6CKCtw)

Masha Solo on Bandcamp: https://masha-solo.bandcamp.com

Neons Gone Mad on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3B39xtrJfUJK0C1RQhmLGG

Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp: https://profoddfellow.bandcamp.com/

Song art by Masha using a combination of video stills from NGM's video and a self portrait in the middle. The lyrics are found newspaper headlines collected by Craig Conley @prof-oddfellow

Lyrics:
Thus we can rewrite
Here goes something
Seek better times
that never were
You can bypass
Wit's end
No weekends are lost (it says here!);
You are not second class
You don't have to take it anymore
Something will always be there.
"You can take it with you"
Next year will be ours
Not impossible to get money
Facing the Future without fear
Evil spirits scared away
So far so good
Seek better times
That never were
You'll Do All Right
You Still Have Time...
Wow! You look great!
Everything's Great
You Get Your Wish!
Future Is Bright
Little Things Count
Your Lucky Star
is on the way!
We'll See This Through!
Here goes something
Everything's going to be all right
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Bizarre OK for over 30
There is a solution for every problem
Something wonderful happened
How a weirdo and a ghost can change your entire life
Nothing falls to pit bottom due to earth's motion
The devil can't make you do it!
There's still time to withdraw
You can change your personality from dull to dynamite
You are not as old as you think
Something Nice About Tomorrow
The better day coming to-morrow
Danger period is about over
There are two handles to every tomorrow
Not all good things have to end

Collaborations

Let's Undo: Nine Inch Nails with Neons Gone Mad and Masha Solo

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for checking our page for Archmage Band III.

This song is a theme song for the Parallel Tales series: Exit of the Exile, which is the first story's theme song featuring the elf Ashara.

It will be on Realm III [Instrumental Prologue].

We're working on a storytelling style for the vocals together now. For that version we'll be sharing more of the story than ever before.

Art by Masha using royalty free Canva flourishes.
Synth work by Masha Solo (@masha-solo) and Rob Ulysses (@rob-ulysses) using Reason Compact and a Korg microKey Midi Controller.

The Raven - 11.30.2023

Wunderfish

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