A big fan of Frank Zappa and his notion of "xenochrony," Kevin indulged in a fun, hamfisted version of that process by taking some alternate/unused vocal takes from a couple of our RPM Challenge 2025 songs and adding them to the unused first take…

A dump cake is made by literally dumping all the ingredients into a baking pan, mixing them, and popping the pan into the oven. This aural dump cake was made by taking a bunch of alternate/unused vocal and instrumental takes from several of the…

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…

Built an Omri Cohen patch idea in VCV Rack, recorded a couple of takes, then edited and arranged the results in Reaper.

VCV Rack patch reacting to an audio field recording. Cheers to Omri Cohen for the excellent patch walkthrough!

Messing with an audio field recording in VCV Rack.

VCV Rack patch reacting to an audio field recording. Cheers to Omri Cohen for the excellent patch walkthrough!

Various LABS instruments and a couple of Hainbach plugins in Reaper.

VCV Rack patch with LABS instruments.