I have created several challenge pieces for At Water's Edge, now called The Edges of Dreaming, Radio Show on Radio Spiral
theedgesofdreaming.com
This was the first piece where the challenge was to create a track whose base elements consist solely of sounds you would hear in a laundry room. You could alter the sounds however you liked, but you could only use these sounds, and no additional instruments or synths…
When I first set out as Museleon, I set myself monthly challenges and in 2017 it was to create short sound pictures based on haiku’s. For the month of December, I created a piece based on the sounds of my washing machine – Merry Washmas – but it was still recognisably washing machine sounds. For this challenge I decided to take the original sounds and try to create something that didn’t sound like my washing machine.
The result is Storm.
I imagined an isolated arctic station being bombarded by a fierce storm causing metal to swing, creak, scrape and bend, wires to reverberate and howls through windows. A beacon calls out to the rest of the world.
You can hear the whole podcast Laundry Day here
theedgesofdreaming.com/2018/05/12/laundry-day/
I have continued to take up the sonic challenges and am now on several of the RadioSpiral releases which you can find here
radiospiral.shop
All proceeds go to Radio Spiral, which enables artists like me to keep experimenting, creating and producing music and to be heard by a wider audience.
Artwork is Storm in my Washer by Museleon.