Under the Wires

You guys, look at this thing. You just jam a whole stick of butter in there and it melts it and you can just spray hot liquid butter on whatever. The 80s really was the decade of insane kitchen appliances.

Spotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weapons Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."

Spotify’s founder, Daniel Ek, is another techno-fascist billionaire.

He’s invested in AI that specializes in war, surveillance and violence, so it’s no surprise he’s fine with running ICE ads on Spotify.

If you haven’t already, cancel your Spotify subscriptions. Let’s make them feel like Disney+.

Ew, but fair

It’s working — it’s raining here and with this playing it feels like we’re about to start a murder mystery

Rip derp

I wish this album was easier to listen to, I haven’t heard it in a while. Vinyl is on its way though

Unsweetened Cake, by Under the Wires from the album Dailies

Maximal quirk!

Things have gotten so basic these days that sometimes when I make a quirky track people call it “experimental” 🤔

Really loving the Rytm + Odyssey combo
#Synthsky

Same. A month ago I had 10 followers and I just passed 300

I’m on schedule, I suppose.

Oh dang, I thought companies stopped using that stuff. It came out looking good though. Now I gotta check my elektrons. I have an original Push that is covered in that, really gross

What are the buttons made out of? Some kind of plastic?

Corner for Waiting, by Under the Wires from the album Dailies

New daily - I think this exact sound I got here on the Arp odyssey has been used in *many* 80s and 80s inspired songs

#SynthSky #SynthPop

underthewires.bandcamp.com/track/corner...

I Am Dead Cereal, by Under the Wires from the album Sketches (Westmost)

New sketch and it's February so I'm going for more layers or in this case more instruments. To my usual Analog Rytm I'm adding an Arp Odyssey. Nice to have a proper melodic synth in the mix! #SynthSky Also using bandcamp now

underthewires.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-d...

I’m continuing in February by expanding. 2 days on one project, or build off something existing, add B sections, etc.

2 days for Twobruary
Then comes Mar3h, 4pril, M5y, 6une, Ju7y, au8ust, Se9tember
Oc10ber, No11ember, and by year’s end I’ll be spending 12 days per project for Decem12er

Nice! 31/31, well done. I think I got 28, but still going!

Last night's sketch plus a silly visualization #SynthSky #Jamuary

Eh, part of me wants to disclaim these since they are so unpolished. The thinking goes: If I post to a junky site like soundcloud that’s one thing, but Bandcamp is a Real Site for Real Albums. If I post these recordings there that means it is The Best That I Can Do. Ego, basically. Working thru it

January 26 - Calliope Pleasure Wheel composer / producer

2nd of two musical sketches from yesterday

#SynthSky #Jamuary

on.soundcloud.com/QqDnYK2x8h7D...

January 26 - Boone’s Strawberry Hill composer / producer

1st of two musical sketches from yesterday

#SynthSky #Jamuary

on.soundcloud.com/fjJNgAhzTHbr...

January 25 - Noodle Cooling Fan composer / producer

Held over from Saturday due to misplaced perfectionism

#SynthSky #Jamuary

on.soundcloud.com/9j4muYhB3zRA...

I guess because it makes it like an official album? Maybe just a mental block I need to get past. I’ll look into it, thanks for the suggestion

Every Day January 2025 composer / producer

The recent ones are not up yet but I will make new posts here on Bluesky and they are all collected in this SoundCloud playlist on.soundcloud.com/gShRX7MZPfKF...

Until I find a better platform cus those SoundCloud ads are grating

So no more, I’m going back to the two rules.

Simple.
Quick.

And I’ve got a backlog from the past few days that I’ve been holding back due to all of this and will be posting today. Throw the bad habits out the window

Subconsciously I added a third criterion: simple, fast, and now *accessible*. Because, my brain says, if it’s accessible then that number will go higher. But when I’m sketching, this takes me out of the moment and away from the FEELING of the music which is like the entire damn point

Since I decided to share these daily sketches online, every sketch gets tracked, and each gets a score of how many listens, how many likes. I’ve found myself yearning to hit those higher numbers again. I mean okay they are very low in the grand scheme but number go up 🥴📈

By deciding to share *every day* it forces me to be very simple (counteracting the ambition) and very fast (counteracting the perfectionism). And it’s been a wonderful change of pace for me, I can’t tell you how refreshing.

And yet, the ambition has crept back in…

When I started my current daily practice of recording and releasing a sketch every day #Jamuary it was intended to change a couple bad habits of mine that have effectively blocked me from sharing any of my music for years. That is overambition and perfectionism.🧵

SoundCloud is pretty awful these days. What’s a better option?
#SynthSky

January 24 - Fade Like a Horizon composer / producer

kept playing til my brain stopped working and I just faded away completely must post before sleep

on.soundcloud.com/dHsE4tWV8FRg...

#SynthWave #SynthSky #Jamuary

January 23 - Someone Else’s Trousers composer / producer

I was working on something in Bitwig and fell into the too many-options hole, as one does, so I leapt from that train wreck onto my Rytm and busted this out in the last 20 minutes.

#SynthSky #Jamuary #DarkTechnoForSomeReason

on.soundcloud.com/cD1tYnVXR8yS...