One Minute Wonders

This project is to get writers thinking differently about the music they make by restricting entries to 1 minutes and removing any pressure of expectation that these tunes might be "a hit" or "the one". That might sound like a receipt for high-faluting art-wank, but the resultant set of 2011 entries were refreshingly non-shit.

Give it a go yourself - just for your own creative juices. Post it to our soundcloud group if you want it to be considered for the 2012 7" vinyl album.

You can support this project by buying the 2011 album-on-a-7"

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Posted 7 months ago & Filed under 2011, 77 plays

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2011 WINNERS ARE IN:

Valvetronix : The Beelips
Killing Time : Dan Foden
Sticky Bongo : sonofsamsounds
At Sea : Lowery
The Ballad Of Peach : Mark Thorby
Quadrahick : Mike Jackson
The Dell : Red Cassette
Helicopter Gunship : James Leeds
I Dreamt About Dying: PhilCivilian
The Travelling Knife : Emily Sargasso
Standard, as standard : danieljharvey
A hinge : Transept
When's the right time to stop : davidpye
Sticky Situation : Girl in a Thunderbolt

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My sub-standard web-connection led to a Ramona Falls song cutting off at 1 minute... and you know what? It was a GOOD song, but I knew what the rest of it would be like almost exactly... I'd already been exposed to most all the creativity, and the rest of a 3.50 modern pop-song was inevitably going to be just repeats. Yeah, repeats are good when you love something - but that's what the back button is for, surely...

This got me thinking - maybe the accepted wisdom on song length is simply wrong in the modern world when time is what we're most short of...

So here's a bit of fun - I initially asked my song-writer friends (@jamestinman, @jameselliottwit, @Iain Lowery, @redcassette) to write a 1-min song - the theme simply "the most dramatic you can be in 1 min" - but YOU'RE welcome to join in if you fancy a bit of unbridled creativity...