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

#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

#Movuary 03: Icy Roads

This is a track inspired by a recent drive on streets with patches of ice. It's rough, uneven, slightly chaotic, and trying it's best to keep itself together, but can't quite manage.

Fun fact:
I composed this entire thing without using Move's screen reader, and just used the four random sounds it gave me when starting a new set.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/03%20-%20Icy%20Roads.flac

Unfortunately, my instance will not let me attach the file directly. I'll edit this post if it is fixed.

#Movuary 04: Pluribus

This, compared to some other stuff I've done, is pretty simple. I sampled Dave Porter's 'Pluribus' theme from Apple TV into Move using the USB-C port of my phone, pitched it up slightly, then put drums, bass, a rohdes and some strings behind it.

Eagerly awaiting season 2, by the way.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/04%20-%20Pluribus.flac

#Movuary 05: Fly on the Wall

I wrote this in August of 2025, just after the release of the autofilter effect, and some new sliced loops were added to Move.

It's in the key of F, and features a sampled e-piano, synth bass, which I think actually came from a drum kit, drums, and one of the stock sliced loops.
This song also has some built-in summer heat and humidity. No, it really does.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/05%20-Fly%20On%20The%20Wall.flac

#Movuary 06: Traveling Nowhere

Originally sequenced in May of 2025, revised today, because I am not feeling all that inspired to make new stuff. This, too, shall pass.

Key of F major, with drums, saw bass, fake strings, and a vibraphone. It just kind of meanders around and never really goes anywhere, especially the bass part, which is why I called it Traveling Nowhere.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/06%20-%20Traveling%20Nowhere.flac

#Movuary 07: It's Nothing Special

This is a hasty thing I put together based around one of the acoustic guitar sliced loops that comes with Move. It's called It's Nothing Special because the phrase of the guitar kind of says "it's nothing special" to me, over and over again.A flat miner, with two drum kits, including a muted jazz bass, a Rhodes kind of sound, and the above sliced acoustic guitar loop thing.
It's all pretty rough and minimal.

#Movuary 08: Unusual Sunday

Today has been weird for multiple reasons, but mostly turned out alright. This little sequence reflects that.

#Movuary 09: Careless

What happens when you just slap something together and don't really care? This, apparently.

There's a section where I forgot to quantize part of one of the clips. I was going to fix it, but it was a careless mistake, and it's called Careless, so yeah, I'll just leave it in.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/09%20-%20Careless.flac

#Movuary 10: Terrible On Purpose

I feel terrible tonight, and just didn't feel like coming up with something new. So, have something old and bad instead.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/10%20-%20Terrible%20on%20Purpose.flac

#Movuary 11: Running Late

I missed my deadline for posting before midnight EST. Oh well, it's still February 11 in a tfew timezones.

This is a loud, annoyed sort of thing with lots of steppy things, delays that won't get out of your face, and annoying synth chords that seem out of place. Really, I hate this thing. I'm putting it here as a punishment to myself.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/11%20-%20Running%20Late.flac

#Movuary 12: Throw a Doob

Sometimes, sequences don't have to be complicated to be fun. This is a prime example. It's based around a two osc square wave patch with some delay and a flanger, a filtered sawtooth bass, a sawtooth synth part, and some drums.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/12%20-%20Throw%20a%20Doob.flac

#Movuary 13: Cheap Plastic Autobahn

Here is a beautifully inaccurate rendition of a small part of Kraftwerk's 1974 hit Autobahn... Well, it was a hit in Germany in 1974, but was on American Top 40 in the summer of 1975.

There is no way I could possibly re-create the sounds of all those old synths, drum machines and plate reverbs used back in those days on a groovebox, so this is the best I can muster.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/13%20-%20Cheap%20Plastic%20Autobahn.flac

#Movuary 14: Too Much

It was a day that just felt like it would never end. Everything went wrong. I got bad news from all fronts. It just sucked, so I made a sequence about it.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/14%20-%20Too%20Much.flac

#Movuary 15: Woova

This is actually a thing built on a set I made in December of 2024 for a project. I wanted something very low effort, so I sampled a bunch of vocal and synth noises in a wash of 100% wet reverb, stuck a bass line I recorded over a year ago in it, played some junk using the pads, not trying too hard, and stuck a beat on top, with some slight automation.

It's called Woova because that's what I named the set back then. It has no other meaning.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/15%20-%20Woova.flac

#Movuary 16: the Samsung Song

This is totally a cop-out, and I realize it, but, seriously, the world order has changed in a fundamental way, and I need time. That's even almost not quite exaggerating.

As a placeholder, I give you a swingy, poppy version of the Samsung washing machine song, otherwise known as Franz Schubert's Die Forelle, and the shortest thing I have ever posted under the Movuary hashtag, either this year or last.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/16%20-%20Die%20Forelle.flac

#Movuary 17: No Matter What

When you create a new set on Move, it throws four random sounds at you. Despite none of these sounds being ones I would probably ever use, let alone together, I was determined to make something semi-interesting, thus the title, No Matter What. Honestly, I kind of hate it, TBH.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/17%20-%20No%20Matter%20What.flac

#Movuary 18: the Wrong Move

Let's do something entirely different. This is not at all a musical thingy. Not really. It's mostly a thing where I turn a bunch of knobs, make a bunch of noise, layer more noises on top, and just zoik out, whatever zoik means.

Weird noise warning.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/18%20-%20the%20Wrong%20Move.flac

#Movuary 19: Looking Down

I started this set on a cold day in October of 2025, and just got around to finishing it.

I have a thing for square waves and questionable chord progressions, I guess.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/19%20-%20Looking%20Down.flac

#Movuary 20: Stolen Melody

This is a very quick, very simple thing I just did mostly to get used to the workflow of using Move Everything modules in a project.

Years ago, @FreakyFwoof did a thing, and that melody has been stuck in my head for all that time... at least part of it, so I shamelessly stole it.

This features an e-piano patch from OB-XD with Junolog chorus and Cloud Seed algorithmic reverb, a synth sound from Access Virus TI, and the drums and bass came from Move synths.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/20%20-%20Stolen%20Melody.flac

#Movuary 21: Angry Noof

I'm just angry today, about a lot of things, and nothing is going right for me. I started three different sets, and they all broke, so I'm just releasing this stupid thing instead.

I actually made this just several hours after I got my Move on Friday, October 11, 2024, which was about as early as you could get one in the United States. I never intended to release this publically, but now seems like the right time to do it.

I said "NOOF" into the sampler, then made an angry beat around it, manipulating the "noof" sample in many dumb ways. It just reflects my mood right now.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/21%20-%20Angry%20Noof.flac

#Movuary 22: Dumb

Yeah, at this point, I'm not even trying anymore.

One of the new features of Move 2.0 beta is audio tracks, which you can import loops or just record on. A feature of Move Everything is the inclusion of a vocoder module. So, I combined these things to do something totally stupid and dumb.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/22%20-%20Dumb.flac

#Movuary 23: Disconnected

I'm two full days behind now. Oh well, so it goes.

This is a track that features two SurgeXG patches, a sort of e-piano sound from a Juno 60 emulator, two drum kits and a bass, all of which are stock Move sounds. I called it disconnected because one of the SurgeXT patches I used keeps saying "disconnected" at me, onomotapoetically..

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/23%20-%20Disconnected.flac

#Movuary 24: the Man Machine

Getting further and further behind. The last couple of days, I have just not been in the headspace for playing with musical things. I'm still not, really. Lots of frustration with life.

This is a partial cover of Kraftwerk's 'the Man Machine' from 1978. I wanted to see how close I could get to the sound of the original using stock synth sounds. I didn't sample from the original for anything. Kraftwerk really doesn't like it when you do that.

I re-created the little percussive click at the beginning with Drift, did a layer/resample for the snare sound, and used a truncated Roland TR-707 kick. Yes, I know, it's not period accurate. Sue me.

I then used the vocoder module from Move Everything for the vocal parts.

There is a lot wrong with this thing. The lowpass filter of drift isn't quite right, the vocoder lacks the resolution of the one Kraftwerk used, and so much more, but it was fun trying to get somewhat close to a sound produced in a studio full of analog gear with a tiny device on my lap while sitting on the couch.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/24%20-%20the%20Man%20Machine.flac

#Movuary 25: Polygark

This is another one of those sets where I only used the sounds it gave me. No overdubbing or extra modules.

This one plays fast and loose with timing. Polyrhythms and weird turn-arounds galore.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/25-%20Polygark.flac

#Movuary 26: Take Me Home

In December, I, for some reason, wanted to re-create the instrumentation from Phil Collins 'Take Me Home' on Move, so I did the best I could using the included Roland TR-909 samples, a square wave with an envelope on it, and one of the stock e-piano sounds. Since move doesn't have gated reverb, not even in the new modules that I can find, I sampled the 909 clap sound with reverb, then just put an envelope on it to simulate the effect. Now that I can run Dext on Move, which emulates a Yamaha DX-7, I replaced the built-in e-piano sound with that, which is much closer to what Phil used when he recorded this in 1984. I don't think it's quite the right patch. His sparkles a little more.

Since the entire song is basically just Phil and friends singing over one bar of a square wave, two bars of TR-909 drums and a four bar e-piano sequence (there is also a bass and some other things, but that's primarily what you hear), I decided to make it more interesting for Movuary. Thus, I played around with chords, bass, and did things Phil never would have done with his 909.

HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2026/26%20-%20Take%20Me%20Home.flac

#Movuary 27: 1987

This is a thing that started out as an 8 bar loop in June of 2025 for a recording I made about my own personal brand of synesthesia.

The sounds are not particularly 1987. They are all stock move sounds except for the drums, which came from a Magix Entertainment sample DVD released in 2001, but the style sort of is. I imagine this as something someone from 2067 might right having just read a book about 1987, never having actually experienced it themselves.

HQ download:
27 - 1987.flac