June 17th, Leum brought to the studio a lovely, plaintive reflection on lost love. He recorded a solid first take, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, then invited the rest of us to fill out the production as we saw fit. Margaret added some…

Leum dropped off these lyrics at the April REM Challenge recording session, to see what other folks would do with them. At the first May recording session, we scanned through the lyrics and decided to try to put them to music. Robbie had a couple…

When we assembled at the studio for our first REM Challenge 2023 recording session, Nick offered up a MIDI guitar piece he had been working on. Kevin, being chronically underprepared, did not have any decent sounding guitar VSTs installed on his…

One Saturday afternoon at the studio, Nick played around on the Clavinova, running through some chord shapes and notes to try out the instrument's various piano sounds. Kevin recorded the performance and later chopped up and combined some of those…

One Saturday, Nick and Kevin met at Margaret's Lovely Studio to make some music. Nick played some pretty sounds on the Clavinova, and Kevin pressed Record on the computer in hopes that one day, other people would be able to hear and enjoy the…

One Saturday afternoon at the studio, Nick played around on the Clavinova, running through some chord shapes and notes to try out the instrument's various piano sounds. Kevin recorded the performance and later chopped up and combined some of those…

A little heavy with the reverb, but it makes sense in context, I guess.

This one makes me happy and sad in about equal measure.

FL Studio for the music. Number station recordings taken from the Conet Project.