BorrisJan 19

Last February, I did a thing, which I called #Movuary, in which I sequenced a new track (almost) every day of the month of February with my then relatively new Ableton Move groove box.

Most days, I actually tracked a new thing, but a few were previous sequences that got slight touch-ups.

That was a lot of fun, and got me to think about things in ways I otherwise wouldn't, so I think I'll do it again this year.

If you're curious, here's a very boring index page with everything I did last year, including Ableton bundles for you to play with in your own Move, Ableton Note, or Ableton Live.

BTW, I have still never actually used Ableton Live. Maybe I'll get around to that one of these days.

http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/

If anyone else here wants to do the same, posting a new track produced with Ableton Move every day in February using the #Movuary hashtag, let's make this a movement, or something.

Index of /audio/movuary2025

Show threadBorrisFeb 1

Welcome to the first day of #Movuary, in which I will post a track created with my Ableton Move every day for the month of February.

Starting off with this thing I actually made in October, and revised this morning.

It's called "Happy Saw Times", because it's ridiculously bouncy, overly excited to exist, and is based on a stupid little saw wave riff that wouldn't leave my head at the time.

This is not the sort of thing I would normally write, but I can't promise something like it won't happen again in the future. IT's just very unlikely.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/01%20-%20Happy%20Saw%20Times.flac

Show threadBorrisFeb 2

#movuary 02: the Dead Battery Song

This is a very silly thing based around the MacinTalk 'Pipe Organ' voice, found on Mac OS and iOS, which sings to the tune of 'Funeral March of a Marionette', composed originally for piano by Charles Gounod in 1872, and orchestrated in 1879, though many will recognize it from 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' from the 50s and early 60s.

Someone here (and I can't remember who now) made a comment that they had their iPhone using that particular voice singing your battery is about to die" when the battery reached a certain level, so I kind of extended this concept a bit, even going so far as to make a custom MacinTalk voice to carry the melody further.

With apologies to Charles Gounod, 'Alfred Hitchcock, and the creator of this version of MacinTalk, who I believe is no longer with us, but can't remember his name now.

I sampled myself playing my Suzuki Melodion into Move's built-in microphone twice, then filtered the result. Some things are not quite in tune, but hey, what can I say? Things get a little bit weird when you've got low voltage, I guess.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/02%20-%20The%20Dead%20Battery%20Song.flac

Show threadFlorian
@KaraLG84 @BorrisInABox wait ...I had no idea you could make that voice do a different melody, was this an AI effort or does the voice just ...let you do that now?
Feb 2 at 10:52amWeb
Show threadBorrisFeb 2
@zersiax @KaraLG84 I manually wrote out a new notes table for the voice.