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"
2. Killing Time - Dan Foden (@dantruckerfoden)
Did Google’s priority inbox put my 1 minute wonder at the bottom of your to-do list or did it suck THAT much? ;) I have another one for your collection. Dan Foden of Great Shakes fame just came over and recorded this in my garage… Mark.
3. Standard, as standard by danieljharvey
This is my one minute song what I wrote and did tonight after tea but before bed.
5. The Travelling Knife - Emily Sargasso (@sargassotrio)
Hi James
Here is my one minute song. It’s all over the place, but what the hell!
Emily
6. Sticky Situation by Girl in a Thunderbolt
Cautionary tale, set to an Omnichord.
7. The Ballad Of Peach - Mark Thorby @thorbym
Hi James,
So I actually had an evening off tonight and thought I’d have a pop at a one minute wonder. I’m way too deadpan for this drama malarky…
Mark.
8. Helicopter Gunship by Tin (@jamestinman)
Sometimes you get such an emotional battering it’s like being ploughed into by an Apocalypse Now-style Apache…
My emotions are civilians
Innocent collateral
My emotions are innocent collateral
(The women and the children)
But you keep on firing..!
You’re a Helicopter Gunship, a helicopter gunship
You’re a helicopter gunship…
With a mini-gun
10. I dreamt about dying by aCivilian
My 1 minute wonder, written, performed and recorded by me last weekend.
12. Doomed Gondola - James Elliot Taylor @jameselliottwit
hi james leeds.
well, i thought “if i don’t do it right now while its fresh in my mind and raining, it’ll never get done”, so i wrote and recorded a song for your friendly competition. i hope it meets the criteria of drama, though its not exactly “crammed”, but it is about a murder, and is one only one minute … well 1:06.
anyway, i opened up a new file in logic which i had to title and because i had no idea what i was about to write, for inspiration i randomly opened up a book i have called ‘the fairy tales of hermann hesse’ (which is brilliant by the way, if you don’t know it) and immediately saw the seductive couplet “doomed gondola” so decided to write something around that. after 3 hours and 4 beers i’ll call it done as i can’t think of what else i can do with it.
right so, speak soon,
love james
13. A hinge - Transept by Transept
