RPM
Challenge.

Improved music with the family. Set the mic, program the drum machine and hit record.

more indie pop! collaborated b/w Downers Grove, Illinois and Sunnyvale, California

A live jam played online in SecondLife, post rendered to reactive visuals. Backing is a custom dynamic AI rhythm section in Ableton Live, with live slide guitar & rack harmonica. It's an tip of the hat to Ali Farke Toure and West African Desert Blues.

Made as a distraction to human suffering...the next step in interplanetary world music!

I made an EP. I made it in my bedroom using nothing but an acoustic guitar and an iPad. I made it for anyone who wants to hear it.

I made a recording for chilling out or even sleeping. I played 12 string guitar, mandolin, and synths

This is a collection of song concepts made in my friends apartment in Sacramento and Stockton CA. The songs are brief stories or expressions with compositional layers that I would like to fully flesh out in a subsequent album. I attempt to capture feelings and or stories I’ve experienced. Some sonic experiments like “Kings Way” just aim to capture the room and the moment with a layer of melody that the sounds both provoked and became interwoven. In all, while rough, the pieces stand as a direct reflection on/vessel for what would otherwise be fleeting thoughts/memories. I made this EP at an important milestone and I dedicate it to friends in my life that make worth it to be here and whom I love very much. Special Thanks to Gloria Gisel Huera Rodriguez and Alberto Renee Rodriguez for making this album possible.

I took on this challenge to get back into recording music after a long hiatus. This is a fun, silly song about how hard it is to buy a house today.

Controlled Chaos was created using randomized notes on randomized synths, and then edited manually. I am dedicating this album to Jason and his son KJ.

My album is about exploring an alien, crystalline planet.

I just try to make music that I like but haven't heard before. Is it jazz? Pop? Experimental? Classical? I don’t really know. It is a soundtrack to my existence in February 2022.

This is a concept album about the exploration of Inner Space. It makes a great accompaniment to your psychoactive explorations.

I wanted to scale down and focus on doing one song really well this time around - I'm super happy with how it came out and I ended up exploring a really different song space from my usual work

A loving pastiche of 70s and 80s soft rock.

I have completed every rpm challenge every year!

Music written & performed by Maestro Bizarro. Music mastered and engineered by Johnny Kesh. Sabrina Meridian appears courtesy of KittyMeow records.

Short tune featuring original rhythms, bass, and guitars. Made this one with my friend Tex Mex Shaman.

A collaboration between Portsmouth artists, Guy Capacelatro III, Jim Rioux, and Carson Rudra Sea. "Scenes from the End of the World" is a look at our lives during a global pandemic and extreme climate events, and an uncertain future. It's a mix of genres, offering deep introspective songs filled with lush guitars, as well as metal and dance grooves.

I have not bounced all yet but put the first 12 tracks up last night just in time, will upload more to streaming when time allows. Love this.

After creating an album every February since 2008 for the RPM Challenge, this year I decided to concentrate on just a song because well, stuff. So this, an upbeat, optimistic love song. Bandcamp link and video soon to come. “The expression “23 skidoo,” a slang way of referring to a hasty departure, usually at the behest of external factors, became popular early in the 1900s.”

Scratch demos of sixteen originals...

This year I want to dive into electronic Music. And I love it sofar.

10 songs plying the depths of what can be done from scratch in a short period of time with the world swirling about and trying it's best to undermine simple happiness. Set and met the goal of every song being under 3 minutes long. Just real stuff recorded into garageband with the addition of drum tracks flown in by the legend Mikey K.. Let's give it up to abandon!

I recorded an EP this year and let my imagination run wild and it was really fun. I ended up with two dance songs, one Singer-songwriter w/ piano and one hip-hop song. All over...

I made an ambient guitar EP. I used my guitar, some effects pedals, and recording software. I made it for myself, as I had wanted to try it.

My EP is written in the experimental Noise and Dark Ambient genres. The tracks are not intended to be listened to by the average user, as the sound of the EP is unlikely to appeal to many people. The EP is able to evoke the feeling of desolation and understanding that no one is around and no one will help. Yes, it sounds gloomy, but that's the genre. And if that's the kind of thing you like, you can take the time to listen my work.

Reflective of the last two years... Recorded with an iPad and GarageBand. I absolutely hate self recording. I have 12 complete songs but the recording process only enabled me to finish 6 .. but I will take it! This is my 13th RPM challenge.

I am a ghost so I cannot type.

the call of the void

my 13th year doing RPM, my first Vata Rocket record.

A collection of hastily-recorded reflections for the RPM Challenge 2022 (www.rpmchallenge.com). This marks my seventeenth straight successful RPM Challenge. It's a stripped down, mostly-mellow album for a not-so-mellow time, in its raw form as it came out of me over the span of a couple nights in February, 2022.

It's another rock album, with a few punk songs, a few proggy synth songs, a couple heavy shoegaze songs, and a couple throw-aways, because who has time to make 10 good ones? Recorded at home, by myself, except for an organ solo by my friend. It's such a stressful project, but also fun!

I made a record of mostly personal nostalgic thoughts and feelings tossed into the pot.I made it on my days off or at night after work on my iPad. I made the record for friends, family and everyone else on the planet that I hope can listen to it.

A collection of indie-electronic, incessant bass riffs, with a bit of pop thrown in for good measure. I used a combination of my own bass and piano playing with a good dose of assistance from my Logic Pro band. All of my music is a tribute to my late parents who encouraged music as a way of life.

This is my debut album as Bay Mud, and was inspired by recent changes of city, lifestyl and musical goals. It was composed and arranged almost entirely on the Synthstrom Deluge.

The Mona Lisa of Urban Music

This is RPM album number 12 for nOT Mad. This is the first one done since relocating from NH to VA. I used the month to better know my new friends and neighbors that I enlisted to help record. Very satisfying.

Plan was a full album, but ended up with an ep. Trombone player is in FL, one bass player recorded here on 2/15, drummer recorded 2/18, second bassist recorded and e-mailed 2/25. Recorded for us, but may turn this into an actual band project (recording and perfoming). More songs would have been included, but the universe did not cooperate.

I made an EP, just a bunch of ideas and feelings put into song.

15 of us at Manuel Zeitlin Architects and Zeitgeist gallery collaborated for the sixth time on our RPM Challenge album!

Doing my part to make the perfect people stand out even more

indie pop!

It's all processed trombonesounds.

I made an industrial-esque metal song. It was made in the corner of my kitchen using an electric guitar, a midi controller and a few VST's. I made it for myself, I hope you also enjoy it!