The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Lunkhead has been posting about this the past couple of years and I didn't see a thread so here goes:

Lunkhead wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:55 pm

It's almost that time! Fun-A-Day is a challenge a la FAWM/NaNoWriMo/RPM/etc. in which folks make art* every day in January.

I found this on the internet:

There is a Pittsburgh punk tradition called "fun-a-day." For the entire month of January, fun-a-day project participants pick something and do it every day.

Fun-A-Day Inspirational Story

Jonathan Mann has also started a new concurrent and similar challenge "Jamuary" in which folks make a song every day. He's completing over a decade of making a song a day. It all started with him making a song a day for Fun-A-Day in 2009.

Jamuary

I don't know how much I will be able to do this year but I did something today and I think I can do something tomorrow so....
Here's a thing I did messing about with Midi.

Thanks for making a thread! I was gearing up to do live electronic music for it this year. But it's almost 9pm here and I'm tired and haven't even started, so ... we'll see. I may go crap something out now. I was hoping to live stream the process but that should probably wait for another day where I have more time.

I did a bit of a video for my second Jamuary bit. Free (and royalty free) videos from Edit: Pixabay.

I hadn't heard of Pixabay before, that looks pretty cool. I think I may make this more about improving my video skills than about making music. I wound up making some music both nights so far, and streaming it on Facebook, which I think I'm going to keep working on this week. The first night I just used one camera and it turned out that the stream didn't include the audio from inputs 3 and 4 of my audio interface unfortunately. For the second one I used OBS and managed to cobble together a way to use my phone for a second camera, and to route the output of Cubase into OBS. Unfortunately I didn't realize there was no sound in the stream at all for 10 minutes. Tonight I'm going to try that setup again and add in doing some "mixing" in Cubase, just adding some EQ and compression and panning to the tracks.

https://pixabay.com/

Unfortunately, I'm finding it hard to find many clips over 20 seconds. but it's good for the sorts of things I did with this one. Also, I mistyped the name, here's the link.

Glenn Case is at it again this year too and off to a great start. Live streaming on Facebook then posting the final songs here: https://glenncase.bandcamp.com/album/jamuary-2022

3/3 but it's a struggle. I'd like to do a video for this one at some point.

I forgot to route the output of Cubase to the two channels of the aggregate audio device that go to OBS. So, no sound at all in my stream tonight. I think I honestly need to make myself a "go live" checklist or something...

*comfort* The main reason I haven't tried to sort a lot of streaming/live etc., is that I'll have to spend a lot of energy getting it set up and then do it regularly to keep up on it. Also, I'm lazy.

Here is #4.

A pretty melody is exposed to Hitler's speech and is tortured. What is left seems "normal" in comparison but is still a twisted version of the original.

Pigfarmer Jr wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 04, 2022 6:34 pm

*comfort* The main reason I haven't tried to sort a lot of streaming/live etc., is that I'll have to spend a lot of energy getting it set up and then do it regularly to keep up on it. Also, I'm lazy.

Yep, same here. But I think I've procrastinated long enough where it's gotten simpler than it used to be, hopefully to the point where I don't get frustrated and give up. It'd be fun if I felt capable enough to e.g. host a Song Fight related livestream at some point. I declined to run a stream the last couple years because it just seemed too complicated.

No time for the wicked. Went acoustic with a super fast write (about 30 minutes) and a G&G handheld recording.

Been watching too much T.V. But I got a song out of it. Another G&G.

Number 7 (#7) [VII}

Day 07 for me. I'm going to post the stream recordings to YouTube after the fact, now.

Cool to see how you work. The youtube replay is good. I wonder if you can livestream it then repeat on youtube? Or is that what you were doing and found it's easier to record then upload?

Pigfarmer Jr wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 08, 2022 8:03 am

Cool to see how you work. The youtube replay is good. I wonder if you can livestream it then repeat on youtube? Or is that what you were doing and found it's easier to record then upload?

Thanks! I think OBS can only stream to one platform at a time by default, and I've been streaming to my music Facebook page. So that's why I'm uploading the recordings to YouTube after the fact. Looks like I could use a plugin to stream to both Facebook and YouTube if I wanted to, or a free service. I wonder if I use the plugin though if that means that the stream will be going out to both services separately simultaneously from my computer, meaning, double the upload bandwidth being used? If so I may want to hardwire my computer to my router while I do that. I have a way to do that it just means running a really long Ethernet cable from my computer out to another room and plugging in to the jack where we normally have our TV connected.

And then there were eight.

Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine.

This Jamuary thing is inTENse. (#10)

Lunkhead wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 03, 2022 9:34 am

I hadn't heard of Pixabay before, that looks pretty cool

On an unrelated note, you'll never guess where I find a lot of my royalty free pics for Album Art.