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Andre Louis Feb 28, 2025

#Movuary day 28: I made this in a car on the way to Belgium, and I know it's short but I didn't get more of a chance to do something epic. There's stuff I want to sample where I'm staying, including an absolutely fantastic stair banister that chimes like a bell, but that will have to be for another set. The sample was recorded from my phone playing back a youtube video, so there is that.

Andre Louis Feb 1

#Movuary Day 1: Yes it's that time again, so let's get this thing going.
We start with a little idea I had the other day after upgrading the storage in my Ableton Move from 32 GB to 128 GB. I added in a handful of new samples and built a kit from Neptune drums, around which I based this groove.
Title: 'Movuary Rides Again'
Welcome to February 2026!

Andre Louis Feb 3

#Movuary Day 3: Full stop Punctuation.
Named after a conversation yesterday, and also after a weird youtube trend that gave you some... Very questionable videos if you put a single full stop in the search bar at one point.
I have wireless midi connected to my Move over a weird little device called a WIDI (Wireless to MIDI Adapter) so I used my normal keyboard to play the bass, chords and synth line, but input the drums directly on Move.

Andre Louis Feb 4

#Movuary Day 4: Morning Incoherence.
When I first wrote this track some years ago, I envisaged that the refrain would be your alarm that you continued to put on snooze because you didn't feel like starting the day.
The bits in-between are your on-again off-again dreams that last for perhaps 5 minutes each.
The final motif is when you give in and get up.
In the full-length track done with a live band, it turns into a roughly 10-minute affair with multiple sections and it's pretty wild. I wish I'd gotten to make a proper music video for this but sadly not.
This is my original version for Move, but below I've linked a live version we played in Pizza Express some years ago.

Morning Incoherence Live: https://youtu.be/MMRkbHjslww

Andre Louis Feb 5

#Movuary Day 5: 'Happy to see you.'
A very short, bouncy little thing just for the sake of it.

Andre Louis Feb 6

#Movuary Day 6: 'Jump the Groove.' Making Move do things that aren't just 4/4 is fun. Have to work in odd metronomic timings but I enjoy such things.
This one's a loop, so if you were to download it, it should come around seamlessly.

Andre Louis Feb 7

#Movuary Day 7: 'Back In The Day.' A 90's style Jungle throwback using one of the stock Ableton Move drum loops.

Andre Louis Feb 8

#Movuary Day 8: 'Holiday Time.' This was written just before I went on a cruise with my family last year and is just a short loop.

Andre Louis Feb 9

#Movuary Day 9: 'A Table For Later.' Written on Dec 10 2025 just before I was going out to eat with some of my family, so I had food on the brain, specifically Indian food. That's not necessarily represented here but still.

Andre Louis Feb 10

#Movuary Day 10: 'Cycle Path' which is another MIDI conversion because it was four tracks to begin with and it's fun and simple.
For conversions like this, since Move itself doesn't accept midi directly, I have to solo each track in my old MIDI sequencer QWS, and then hit record on Move and Play in QWS and hope I get them to line up. I can of course quantize after,.

Andre Louis Feb 11

#Movuary Day 11: 'Purple Sofa' named after the very nice sofa @MoonCat picked out last year. It arrived while I was in #Belgium and when I came home and sat on it for the first time, this groove came into my head. It makes for a killer jam-over by the way. Sit at your instrument of choice or even just hum along, it's fun.

Andre Louis Feb 12

#Movuary Day 12: 'Redacted Hatstand.' 'Redacted' is a word I'm hearing a lot of lately and I thought why not use it in a musical context for a change? What has a hatstand to do with music? Nothing, that's why it's redacted. Don't ask, I don't know.

Andre Louis Feb 13

#Movuary Day 13: 'The Broken Time Machine.'
The year is... Well it was something when you left, but where you left is not where you right. You righted all wrong and now the world is upside down and confusing.
When you glance outside your protective dome you're simply floating in a void. I guess you missed your destination by not only miles, but centuries, eons, an uncountable, unfathomable amount of time.
What to do now?

#Movuary Day 14: 'Dinky Donk On The Move' which is a recreation of a track I wrote using Geforce M-Tron Pro IV. This reboot of it was based on a slightly different version of a mostly piano-only cover created by Suno.
Seems I have to send it from this account instead of my usual because the file refuses to attach today.

Original: https://youtu.be/jlKtdm_Txj8
Suno recreation: https://youtu.be/EahnvYg9Kz4

Andre Louis Feb 15

#Movuary Day 15: 'Sample Madness' apparently created on Sunday 28 Jan 2024 before move was released to the public.
It was a day when I was going through old cassettes and wanted to sample a few random things into my Move, so that's what I did.
I also put a low-fi thing on the sample track to make it sound like 11 KHZ just because I could.

Andre Louis Feb 16

#Movuary Day 16: 'What Would You Say?'
An almost instrumental rap-track with elements of 90's/2000's era vibes, a hummable melody and some melancholy.

Andre Louis Feb 17

#Movuary Day 17: 'Seven Over Four' which is a 7/4 piece since Move doesn't like non-standard time signatures, just because I can.
It's always interesting to decide just how to set the metronome up on move when doing things like this. In-between time? Half-time? Double-time? Something else?

Andre Louis Feb 18

#Movuary Day 18: 'Flakstad'
which gets it's name from the day I was working on my WikiFusion addon and I could get basically every other result to work, but this one thing kept hanging up the search, and being undecided whether to show me Wikipedia or Wiktioinary entries.
I think I just mashed the keyboard and somehow came up with a word to see if it existed and 'Flakstad' was what came out. It was the absolute bane of my existence for about three hours.

Andre Louis Feb 19

#Movuary Day 19: 'Angry Reggae' which is mainly called that because of the bass sound. It's like an upset buzzing box coming to eat your face.
The beat is my favourite bit of this, and I *think* the melody's fairly catchy.

Andre Louis Feb 20

#Movuary Day 20: 'Dystopian Delights' which is one of the strangest things I've ever made.
Warning: It's loud, so do turn down before you play. It is anti-musical in the extreme, having nothing but random noises, twisty bits and much crazy screaming, none of it from me. It's Marmite. It makes no sense.

Andre Louis Feb 21

#Movuary Day 21: 'Move It!' Based on Bop It for Nintendo Switch.
I synced the Move tempo to the track that plays when you're sitting in the menu, added some bass and drums, a bit of reverb and delay to the audio and slowed it down a little. This is really just to test the new audio track support in Move Beta 2.0. there's no use of 'Move Everything' here.

Andre Louis Feb 22

#Movuary Day 22: 'Duck It'
For reasons that will be come obvious, the title is not a swearword appropriation.
This was all done with Move Everything, and captured in realtime by switchin scenes when I thought I should do so.
For the sounds I'm using an Ableton Move stock CR78 kit, the bass is Surge-XT, chords are from Osirus and the arpeggiated track is OBXD.

Liam Erven Feb 22

@FreakyFwoof there is no quacking. I feel I have been mislead.

@lerven It's been cooked in a pot, a duck pot, so the quacking is dead.