#movuary day 12:
This is not a keygen. It is, however, a sequence I made from memory after hearing one in the early 2000s, not having heard it for years before that. I have since heard the original. I got some notes wrong, but oh well. I'm keeping it like that.
This also happens to be a variation on the Alf theme, composed by Alf Clausen. An Alf for an Alf. How convenient!

HQ download, for what it's worth: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/12…

#Movuary day 13:
Point and Click.

This requires a bit of an explanation.

In 1998 (May 19, 1998, specifically), I downloaded some weird, not at all accessible MIDI sequencer thing. I don't remember the name of it. Seems like maybe it had the word art in it somewhere.
Anyhow, I opened it, and clicked on a bunch of unlabeled graphics with my screen reader, which produced this odd thing in E flat pentatonic major.
So, because I'm feeling very uninspired at the moment, I hooked a MIDI interface up to move, and another one to my computer, recorded this MIDI file into Move, added a drum track, and now I'm posting it here. The Melody is unedited from it's original, except for one note that I didn't like.

HQ download:
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#Movuary 14: Bad Brailler.

This is a much extended version of one of my earliest Move projects, using a bunch of samples I recorded of my Perkins Brailler from 1962 as the drum track.

HQ download:
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#Movuary day 15:
Winter Hates Your Move.

Several years ago, @FreakyFwoof showed me an advert for gillette energizing moisturiser, featuring the phrase "Winter hates your face."
Makes me laugh every time I hear it, especially the way this guy said it.

So, back in December, during a particularly cold, snowy day, I demucsed stems from it, so much as I could, and imported elements into Move to have some fun with it. This is the result.

Drums, bass, the vocal, and the mod-like power chord electric guitar all come from the original advert.

HQ download:
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#Movuary day 16: Axel F.

In December, I had a goal to cover Harold Faltermire's Axel F for the 40th anniversary of the movie Beverly Hills Cop, which was December 5, 2024, using Ableton Move, so I did that.
Being a product of 1984 myself, it just seemed like a good idea.
At the time I did it, this was the most complicated sequence I had ever done on this little four track groovebox. Don't think that's the case anymore.
It's also a demonstration that you can really do a lot with only four tracks and a little creativity. There are lots of "but it only has four tracks" Move haters out there.

There is absolutely no way I will ever get the sounds exactly right using a tool like this. In this case, I'm aiming for close enough to be recognizable, both in terms of the sound and the sequence.

All sounds were stock, except for the kick and snare drums, which really could have been stock, but I found slightly better versions of those sounds in a sample pack and used them instead of the stock versions.

HQ download:
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#Movuary day 17: No News Is Good News.
This is an attempt at making some kind of news bed type thing.

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#Movuary day 18: Xander Square

This is an idea that I sequenced originally in May of 2006 on my Yamaha Motif, now redone in Move. It's still about as finished as it was in 2006, I.E. not at all, really, but I'm posting it anyway.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/18…

#Movuary day19: My Paradox.

I woke up this morning with the chord progression from Black Street's 'My Paradise" stuck in my head, so I moved it... kind of. It's also a good excuse to have some solo fun with a synth lead sound.

For this one, I hooked up a MIDI keyboard, though I played most of the e-piano part on the pads. I made about 90% of this sequence without using the Move's screen reader.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/19…

#Movuary day 20: It's Thursday!

Well, yeah, but that's also the name of the track.

I woke up this morning feeling crappy, stuffy and headache-y, so I sampled a bunch of angry metal noises from a library called Black Metal, as well as a couple of Korg iKaossilator loops I made in 2016, synced using Ableton Link and sampled from my iPhone using a direct USB C connection (no external DAC), told my non-existent Sharp EL-640 to keep reminding me that it's Thursday, and made a track out of all that.

Appropriately enough, I was dealing with quite an annoying little bug in the current Move beta firmware while making this, so I was rather angry and annoyed. Totally fits.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/20…

#Movuary day21: Happy Modulation.

This is a track made with FM sounds. The drums are from a Yamaha PSS-170. It's way, way too happy for these times.

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#Movuary day 22: Heidenröslein.

This is an extended and remixed version of a one-shot loop I made on October 11, 2024, the first day I had my Ableton Move,

This is an arrangement of Franz Schubert's Heidenröslein. Those who know me well will know why I did this.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/22…

#Movuary day 23: Time Is Up.

Seems appropriate to post this today, though it's a thing I made back in October, then finished in November after getting my replacement Move.

I've been away from home for a little over six months, and I'm going back in a few hours, with trepidation for various reasons. Yep, time is up, indeed.

This is based around the dingdong sound from my Radio Shack Vox Clock II talking clock, and the spoken words "time is up." Also features a cheap Russian-made watch going ticktock in the background throughout much of the piece.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/23…

Edited to fix a bad note in the bass line and change some levels in the mix. Thanks for pointing that out, @FreakyFwoof

#movuary day 24: Jazz Is Broken.

So, Onj sent me an unfinished set to play with, thus, I played with it. This originally had drums, keys, and a pluck/almost e-piano sounding thing. I added a sign wave lead and an organ, hastily recorded with my Hamond-suzuki XK-2 a few minutes before leaving for the airport, so I didn't have time to do anything truly exciting with the organ. It was a one-shot recording. Did weird broken stuff with the track, because jazz is broken.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/24…

@FreakyFwoof

#Movuary day 26: Sliding Sideways.

This is what happens when I don't at all take anything seriously, and do something odd with the four random sounds it throws at me when creating a new set.

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#Movuary day 27: This Is A Doob.

Here is a silly minimal thing with Softvoice TTS saying "this is a doob" a lot throughout.

If you know, you know.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/27…

#Movuary day 28: a Sad End.

Well, here we are at the end of this Movuary journey, with a sad, slow thing in F miner that makes me wish for better times.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/28…