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The #FAWM website will be coming out of hibernation later today in readiness for our next Song Sprint event. Starting on Saturday, people taking part will attempt to write 5 new songs in 9 days.
FAWM is a celebration of human (not AI) creativity for lyricists, singer-songwriters, or full production multi-instrumentalists like me. It's huge fun.
Why not come and join us?
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Today, in time for #BandCampFriday tomorrow, I have a reverse #birthday gift for you:
An atmospheric, relaxing old-school #synthesizer #electronica track, I wrote during the recent #FAWM Song Sprint in June. Made a better mix and added overdubs and SFX.
More info about the track, and download on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/spotlight-kyd/entering
If you're feeling generous, buy it on BandCamp (1€+):
https://spotlight-kyd.bandcamp.com/track/entering
Or get it for free from my NextCloud server (FLAC):
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So, the FAWM Song Sprint is over and I learned a ton. Being forced to write songs in a challenge setting just does so much for me. Anyways, I'm not happy enough with any of the vocal tracks to share those, but I have an incomplete song I wasn't able to finish, but I will be continuing to work on that I'm proud of just the instrumentals so far.
So, I think I finally found my genre, my style. It's kind of a theatrical punk. I like music that tells stories. Stuff like in musicals. So I've been working on this project that's told entirely through music, and this one song is about this asshole who basically owns all of town and he gets confronted by the quasi "protagonist". So it starts off with the asshole strutting his stuff, and then the protagonist comes in... and while there's no vocals, I made sure to give each character their own musical identity, and when they're speaking, the music shifts to represent that, and at one point the two start to clash and so you've got this piano, sax, accordion shit colliding with this kinda synth metal infused punk taking shots at each other. I think it sounds super neat. I'm sad I ran out of time and so just when things are getting interesting, the song basically ends abruptly.
But it's easily one of my favourite pieces of music I've made in ages, so I'm sharing it.
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I'm calling it a day on the #FAWM song sprint (which sets you the challenge of writing five songs in nine days). I ended up recording eleven tracks, and the last one (which I have just finished) is in 11/8 because I like making things difficult for myself...
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I've been having lots of fun taking part in the #FAWM Song Sprint (write 5 songs in 9 days) challenge. So much fun, in fact, that after just four days I've already written five pieces of music and I'm about to start working on number six...
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The thing that pisses me off about so much of the web is that any space created for shared artistic endeavours always attracts dickheads with no intention of contributing anything of value; they just want to spam it.
The latest profile on the #FAWM site is touting an "interactive property visualization and inventory management platform" based in Gujarat. Experience has shown that the likelihood that we'll be getting a banging drum and bass track out of them is exactly zero.
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Two days in to the #FAWM Song Sprint (see my pinned post) and I've already got three songs recorded. Even better, I'm pleased with the results.
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🎶 Let's write 5 songs in 9 days! 🚀
Push your limits at FAWM.ORG and join the inaugural SUMMER SONG SPRINT (July 4–12). No experience required—bring your imagination and connect with thousands of songwriters worldwide. 🤘
#FAWM #SummerSongSprint #SongwritingChallenge #IndieMusic #MusicCommunity
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The #FAWM website will be going live again later today in preparation for a new challenge which begins on July 4th.
"Song Sprint" sets you the goal of writing five songs in nine days. Are you up for it?
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@Zyfdnug Bei Aufnahmen geht das, mach ich regelmäßig während #FAWM
Aber für live/zusammen, wo es ja auch um die Dynamik miteinander geht, habe ich noch keine Technik gefunden, die so latenzfrei funktioniert, dass das irgendwie realistisch tut, und ich hab mit meinen Leuten echt viel ausprobiert, als da 2020 erst mal alles dicht war😃
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The final track on the new album saw me digging out my Epiphone Electar, a recent reproduction of a lap steel guitar from 1939. I really ought to play it more often, it's fun.
This track started off as something I did for #FAWM but I kept on going back to it and redoing the bass part, because I wasn't satisfied with it. After each take, I'd hear something else I needed to go back and change. For take after take after take. It turned out all right in the end, though.
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The first track on my new #album was written as a theme tune for the sentiment against AI slop in the #FAWM Slack channel, where (for reasons which will remain obscure) tools like suno are referred to as cupcakes. Hates them, we does.
For the #entomologists out there: the buzzing noise that shifts from right to left and back is a slowed-down sample of a Death's-head hawkmoth, acherontia atropos. Because of course it is; that's how I roll.
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The #FAWM website went back into hibernation yesterday. After seven intense weeks of interacting with thousands of other songwriters, listening to their work and leaving comments about it, having dozens of fascinating conversations about music in the forums, and (as a moderator) ensuring that conversations about the use of AI remain civil and keeping the place free of spammers and scammers, it's always a shock when it all just... stops.
I guess I need to get back to work on my next album.
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I've polished up the #music I made for #FAWM into a mini album, under the new artist name Things only Cats can See. It sounds unlike anything I've made before, with more melody and less sound design. It's on #Mirlo, probably other platforms soon.
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My new album of #music which I made during #FAWM is out, just in time for #bandcampFriday
https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/album/thats-what-they-said
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#WritersCoffeeClub 28/2: How well did this short month go for you, in terms of writing?
Pretty good. I wrote 14 songs and 'won' FAWM. But there is still one day of February left, so I might even write a 15th...
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I did it! Some are nowhere near my best efforts, but in spite of the sight problem I wrote the lyrics for 14 new songs this month.
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FAWM 2026 Week 4: Vocal Call, Instrumental Response
Write a song that alternates between vocal and instrumental phrases.
Examples: “Never Going Back Again” (Fleetwood Mac), “My Generation” (The Who), “Cold Sweat” (James Brown).”Call Me Maybe” (Carly Rae Jepsen).
Share your new song at FAWM.ORG!
We'll be posting more weekly prompts and encouragement all month long...
#FAWM #FAWM2026 #Songwriting #MusicChallenge #CallAndResponse