Reinder Dijkhuis Does Art3d ago
Second session playing #guitar through the Electro-Harmonix C9 Organ Machine, playing the regular repertoire but coming up with new parts and chord voicings that make the sounds work a little better. This is gonna be work, but I am more confident that I'll be able to use this during the July #FAWM #sprint if I keep things simple.
Wrenasaurus Tex 3d ago

RE: https://beige.party/@Wallflower/116783382298086497

I had been noodling around with a fingerpicking progression in the days before the Feb Album Writing Month challenge after putting new strings on my guitar. I had aggressively pulled the action down on my guitar and it became quite fun to play again.

When the challenge started my friend Wallflower had reposted a photo similar the one quoted below. She also said something about be that one coneflower and I had an idea for lyrics.
#songwriting #fawm

Here's that song. 🙂
https://abirdieonawire.bandcamp.com/track/ode-to-a-purple-wallflower

Chris HarrisMay 12

The final track on the new album saw me digging out my Epiphone Electar, a recent reproduction of a lap steel guitar from 1939. I really ought to play it more often, it's fun.

This track started off as something I did for #FAWM but I kept on going back to it and redoing the bass part, because I wasn't satisfied with it. After each take, I'd hear something else I needed to go back and change. For take after take after take. It turned out all right in the end, though.

https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/track/23-skidoo

23 Skidoo, by Chris Harris

from the album What The Eye Doesn't See

Chris Harris
Chris HarrisApr 30

The first track on my new #album was written as a theme tune for the sentiment against AI slop in the #FAWM Slack channel, where (for reasons which will remain obscure) tools like suno are referred to as cupcakes. Hates them, we does.

For the #entomologists out there: the buzzing noise that shifts from right to left and back is a slowed-down sample of a Death's-head hawkmoth, acherontia atropos. Because of course it is; that's how I roll.

https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/track/boots-up-cupcake

Boots Up Cupcake, by Chris Harris

from the album What The Eye Doesn't See

Chris Harris
Chris HarrisMar 16

The #FAWM website went back into hibernation yesterday. After seven intense weeks of interacting with thousands of other songwriters, listening to their work and leaving comments about it, having dozens of fascinating conversations about music in the forums, and (as a moderator) ensuring that conversations about the use of AI remain civil and keeping the place free of spammers and scammers, it's always a shock when it all just... stops.

I guess I need to get back to work on my next album.

Show threadReinder Dijkhuis Does ArtMar 15
(Again, I only finished three songs that way; let's not make this approach look more successful than it was). But back to 2023. The conditions in 2023 were weird. On the one hand, I had recently quit my job and had plenty of time. On the other, I was on an off-grid farm in Portugal with limited electricity and a small selection of tools and instruments to work with, some of which broke down at the very start of #FAWM .
HueyMar 8
I've polished up the #music I made for #FAWM into a mini album, under the new artist name Things only Cats can See. It sounds unlike anything I've made before, with more melody and less sound design. It's on #Mirlo, probably other platforms soon.
https://mirlo.space/toccs/release/february-sketches
February Sketches

An album by Things only Cats can See Released 2026-03-08 A mini album made for February Album Writing Month 2026. 12 short, quirky instrumentals in odd time signatures, with found sounds and the occasional burst of noise. **CC-BY-NC** Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Please feel free to download this album, share it, and use it for your non-commercial projects. Just be sure to credit Things Only Cats can See.

February Sketches
CRYPTICAMar 5
Just saw the hashtag #FAWM in relation to someone releasing an album, didn't know it stood for February Album Writing Month, so my brain filled it in as Fuck Around With Music
Chris HarrisMar 5

My new album of #music which I made during #FAWM is out, just in time for #bandcampFriday

https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/album/thats-what-they-said

That's What They Said, by Chris Harris

12 track album

Chris Harris
Reinder Dijkhuis Does ArtMar 2
#FAWM this year was a disaster for me, a perfect storm of conditions that made it impossible for me to work on it. There are lessons to be learned about how to avoid that for the summer event, but one positive development is that I've been looking at my archives from FAWM 2022-2026, and some earlier work, to see what actual albums I could make out of those tracks. I've got some pretty good options based on the song's themes…