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Billie Holiday singing "Fine & Mellow," accompanied by Cozy Cole on drums, James P. Johnson at piano, and other unidentified musicians during a jam session, 1943.

Photo: Gjon Mili for Life magazine

This was a tour de force from 2012 that features several of my DeviantArt friends' Predator characters. It was a trade with the owner of the character placed in the middle, and the harp-like instrument was what she requested that her character play. The rest of the characters got whatever was floating through my head at the time, with a little basic input from the owners.

My character Chaunn is on the left with the toothy wind instrument. Her dad, Khan'nai, plays something like a mandolin. The trio on percussion are three boys with whom I'd worked on a couple of different art trades apiece, so I knew their characters pretty well (and yes, the drums, tambourine, and maracas fit their personalities). The lady on the lower right was a hard call, but said she wanted a horn of some kind. The less colorful players in the background are just fill-in characters.

The fuzzy beast sitting at the central character's feet is from my own headcanon. It's called a pfaukal, and yes, the similarity to a certain Yautja swear-word is deliberate. It's something like cockatoo software running on housecat hardware.

This is a fairly large image at about about 15x20 inches. I used Prismacolor pencils over an ink drawing and watercolor wash. I think it's one of my better efforts, and I'm still proud of it more than ten years later.

When you were like U2 on stage but still had to mop the floor after the show.

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4/21 session

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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

(Sergei/Milton and Lamar belong to my partner @wizardmolars!)

I've been in a bit of a funk lately. Work. Stress. Life. I got a few new toys, and I haven't really had a chance to play with them lately. That changed. I recorded this a few weeks ago, as you can see from the date on the jam. I was feeling like absolute crap at the time, and I didn't want to be seen on screen. (I also didn't want to bother putting pants on, so I'm sure the feeling will be mutual to anyone reading this) But I had managed to hook up my three new effects pedals to various synth outputs, and I linked my new Sonicware Liven XFM and Model D up to my setup in a way that worked for me.

Then I worked out a simple baseline and a couple drum beats on the Circuit. I have two analog synths doubling the bassline, and I don't remember if I also used one of the XFMs four voices to triple it or not. I think I did use the XFM at one point to double the Model D, where the XFM was doing some quiet arpeggios and the Model D was holding the first note of the chord. I know I had the Model D controlled by the Circuit, but the sound from it was running into the XFM because at a couple points I used the XFMs built in bitcrusher effect.

I've got another shorter jam that I did yesterday that I actually filmed, so I'll probably try to get that one up soon too. I hadn't actually listened to this one since I recorded it, so just for fun I decided to keep that same bassline and drums and hit play on the Circuit to see what I would produce from the same starting point when I was feeling completely different. When I post that one, I guess we'll all see what else I could do there.

This is one of the first jams I've done in a while that makes me feel like some of the ones I did when I first started trying to make cybergrunge soundtrack music in Nanostudio.

Go-Go Woe

It is not clear Betty is a member of the band.

It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded a Midnight Synth Session so I thought I’d share one I did a few months ago but never got the chance to share at the time. I always love the synth pads/ sound patches I find on my Roland and I love simply vibing on the feeling of the synth. Right now my Roland Fantom X8 is in storage 😭 But I’m tempted to break it out because I miss these synth improv jam session so much! The full video is around 5mins long so I might upload it to YouTube if anyone is interested in seeing/hearing the whole session. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this mini synth sesh. Thanks for watching! ✌️

Drew @spacemanandy 's cutie OC, Dixie having a jam session with Sheriff Nellie! They're singing ABBA ⭐