Ayamo Nono Turns Away From DAM Tracks So Her Unarchived Song Streams Can Be Clipped

REACT — Ayamo Nono, a singer with ReAcT (ccREVERBERATION), said near the end of a 136-minute karaoke stream on Oct. 21 that she will sing without DAM karaoke tracks for now, so that highlights can be clipped into Shorts even though the stream itself will not be archived.

The idea came to her mid-stream, after a long run of songs. DAM tracks cannot be cut into clips, she explained, but a backing track made by an individual arranger can be, so singing to those would let her post choruses and standout moments from streams that disappear. She said she would do the same during the period when archives cannot be kept, and added that a late-afternoon or evening slot is hard for many viewers to catch live. She planned to start making the clips.

“If I don’t use DAM, I can clip the song streams.” — Ayamo Nono, announcing the change near the end of the stream

The stream itself was already a departure. Ayamo said she usually sings to DAM, but this time she mixed in piano arrangements and other homemade tracks, including songs that DAM does not carry. She called one piano arrangement she found “really, really good” and thanked its creator. She opened with a high-energy number around 12:30 p.m. Japan time, ran through Vocaloid-style songs and a piano version of a rock track, and sang a string of songs from the anime Sword Art Online that she said turned into a medley without her planning it. Her cat joined in partway through, settling on her audio interface and keeping her from touching it for a while.

She spent a stretch of the stream on the reason her song streams do not stay online. She said she has been unable to open membership on her channel for about half a year, so almost none of her song streams have been archived, and that the platform has not told her what is missing. She said she hopes to have it resolved within the year and asked viewers to wish her luck. She also said a song she recently uploaded had passed 20,000 views.

Viewers answered with rows of clapping and cloud-and-rainbow emoji throughout, and the one Super Chat of the stream arrived during the Sword Art Online run. One viewer who made it for the last song wrote that they were glad to have caught it.