Motion By Machine

I work a day job, run a studio at night, and answer to a pug named Chapo. Here’s why I bet on Motion By Machine.

Someone called this "push button mechanics" — said the tools did all the work. I get why it looks that way from outside, so let me open the hood.

It starts with words. I write the lyrics, every line, the story, where it breaks and where it turns. Then I write the performance, where the voice cracks, where it pulls back.

The music tool doesn't hand you a song. It hands you a hundred wrong versions, and the whole job is knowing which one is right.

Same with the picture. Every frame starts as something I wrote — the character, the light, what moves and what stays locked. I direct it shot by shot, then cut every frame to the beat, land the hits on the exact second, grade the color, build the sound.

The tools are fast. They're not the author. They have no idea what this song is about, what it cost, or why the cut lands where it lands. Take the person out of the chair and you don't get a worse version, you get nothing. A blank page and a machine waiting on someone with something to say.

That's the part that doesn't push-button. That's the whole thing.

Thank you all for watching and for your support. This material wasn't put here to impress people, but to move them.

Forty miles of snow. One lantern. A dying father, and the boy who won't stop walking.

The Miner's Son — winter, 1934, the Kentucky coalfields. No dialogue. Just snow, a single flame, and a voice remembering it all a lifetime later.

🕯️ Trailer coming soon. Follow the page so it finds you first.

A short film from Motion By Machine.

𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐔𝐄 №. 𝟐 🪶🍯

A hat. A feather. A name no one can read.

Some things you inherit in the dark. 🕯️

A haunted séance from Mae Lancolia — now streaming everywhere.

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When the morning calls my name. 🕯️🪶

Dream Residue is out now. — Mae Lancolia

🎧 Stream it everywhere: Spotify, Apple Music & more 🍯

🎬 Full music film next week on Facebook & YouTube.

Links in bio.

Meet the cast of our next short film, The Miner's Son.

Set in 1930's rural Appalachia, a boy, Elijah, walks forty miles through a blizzard for the medicine that might keep his father breathing.

Filled with twists and turns to keep you entertained and emotionally entwined with the film.

If on schedule, we should be releasing this new film in the next couple of weeks. Big thanks to everyone for their constant support of the page.

Stay tuned for more!

Get ready for the exciting reveal of Ben E. Sentire’s labelmate, Mae Lancolia! 📻

Her debut tracks, Dream Residue No. 1 and No. 2, drop on Spotify, Apple Music, and all major streaming platforms this Friday at midnight. 🎶

Click the link below to presave and be the first to listen the moment they go live. ⚡

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/maelancolia/dream-residue?ref=release

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