JAMuary 2026
Are you ready for JAMuary? - Hardware Jams & PVC are happily teaming up once again for #jamuary2026 !
31 jams in 31 one days! Let’s celebrate music and show 2026 what a wonderful creative year it’s going to be !
👉 Remember, it’s just jams, have fun and don’t take it too seriously! If you don’t feel the prompt, join in with your own approach. There’s no rules, prompts are mainly here to inspire your process.
Don’t forget to post your daily jams on #pvc_hwj_jamuary and #petitevictorycollective, #hardware_jams so we can enjoy your music as well and keep track with the whole community. We will try to reshare as much jams as we can !
And tag your musician friends if you think they should take part of this challenge.
Much love from the whole community. #jamuary
Prompt
Jan 1. Calm verses Chaos - start calm and end chaotic, or vice/versa
Jan 2. Escape from the lab - document the aftermath
Jan 3. Group hug - 3 or more beings must contribute to this jam
Jan 4. Broken robot lamentation
Jan 5. Archeology - sound from the past
Jan 6. Acid washed - turn up the resonance and dial that filter
Jan 7. No hitting - without drums
Jan 8. All out of fours today - something that is not a 4:4 rhythm. 3:3 6:8 2:2 3:2 5:5?
Jan 9. A genre you have not tried before
Jan 10. Running with scissors- instrumental music that sounds illegal
Jan 11. Going for a knob twisting record...
Jan 12. Folk this - use a folk instrument, consider a folk tune
Jan 13. Reverse reverse - include a backwards element or phrase
Jan 14. Music for a non-existing movie
Jan 15. Loudness on the Moon
Jan 16. The Big Bang
Jan 17. Music inspired by your pet/someone's pet
Jan 18. Music that activates the robots that enslave us
Jan 19. Create a melody without looking at your instrument
Jan 20. Record a 1-minute mini performance
Jan 21. Create a rhythmic groove without melody – Percussion, slap, tapping, etc...
Jan 22. Jam with sounds that slowly dissolve
Jan 23. Into the abyss
Jan 24. Jam with a breakbeat
Jan 25. PONG: the 8 bit jam
Jan 26. Minimal World - everything stripped back and sparse
Jan 27. AMEN: BREAK
Jan 28. Identity theft: try to make a song that sounds like one of your friends songs instead
Jan 29. Underground - soundtrack exploring hidden passageways
Jan 30. Dream Logic - a jam that flows but doesn’t quite make sense
Jan 31st. End JAMUARY with a bang by creating a high-energy, uplifting jam.
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