darkness
wet with
the sound of waves

Santoka

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between the rocks
water the ocean
didn’t take back

Gary Hotham

I spent a lot of 2016 in a strange limbo and was on the verge of giving up my music after 20 years but I found I couldn’t give up the one thing that had been a huge part of my life. So, I decided to take a step back and begin to listen to the world again and to keep myself sane, I set myself a monthly sound challenge.

Based on Haiku’s in a favourite book, I set about creating tiny sound portraits on a monthly basis using found sounds, electronic music and field recordings. The 12 short sound haiku’s were originally uploaded to SoundCloud during 2017 and were my year in sound but they actually sounded like a collection and, together as a whole, reflected the passing of time and the seasons. The resulting album Haiku was finally released in 2019.

Haiku #9 originally was based around a couple of haiku’s, one ancient and one modern – and a set of field recordings I made doing one of my favourite things – rock pooling. This short piece I have reworked into Between the Rocks, and the resulting track is more like the tide returning to fill up the once tranquil crevasses of the pools, in that, I wanted to create the illusion of something small living in the rockpool suddenly being swept about and immersed by the sea, as the tide turned.

As Museleon, I am really interested in the tiny sounds, the anomalies and the mistakes, as together with a self imposed limit on processing, they can create beautiful patterns, rhythms and sounds, which are often best listened to through headphones.

I feel again that I am at a crossroads and so the One Minute Wonders project is a way to keep creating audio art and films in short form.

All field recording, video and music by Museleon.