We are One Minute Peace. Back in 2021, we released an album called European Endless: 12. The concept behind the album was simple: get twelve diverse artists to record twelve minutes of audio based around the motorik beat. The album was an attempt to make sense of the preceding twelve months and make something positive out of that time. All proceeds from the album went to the Irish Refugee Council. Participants included professional artists, as well as an engineer, a translator, a lawyer, and a chef. Everyone did it because it was a fun and fundamentally good thing to do. 4 years later, we’re hoping to follow up, and we’re asking you to take part.

For this album, we’re going in the opposite direction. Rather than 12 minutes based around a rigidly enforced beat, this time around we’re looking for exactly 60 seconds of audio with no rules at all. That’s it; no genres, no styles, no structure. It can be a complete song, a fragment of one, a poem, a field recording, a treatise on pond life, a reason to be cheerful or fearful, a John Cage cover, or a slab of grindcore. We want anything and everything so long as it’s 60 seconds and made exclusively by human beings.

Our aim is to take all of these disparate threads and stitch them together into a tapestry of sound that captures the chaos and uncertainty of day-to-day life in the shadow of terror. Be it the terror of wartime, an authoritarian state, or just a human abuser, one of the first casualties is the loss of stability, the loss of cause and effect. Things just happen, and there is no way to predict what comes next. That is why we want such a wide array of sounds to include within this, and why we want both light and dark. When you have no idea what is coming in 1 minute, every minute becomes critical. Even when freed from the shadow, the stress of this Damoclean sword lingers. We hope to give form to this feeling and, in doing so, hopefully provide a language that articulates what words can’t.

Once we have something assembled, we’ll be releasing it on various platforms, including Bandcamp and Spotify. Everything we earn is being sent straight to charity. None of this goes to admin, hosting fees, or streaming costs. These are all being paid for out of pocket by us. When we say everything goes to charity, we mean everything. All monies will be sent to charities assisting victims, specifically children in Palestine. Our current partners are the PCRF.

In September of 2025, the UN declared that the recent actions in Gaza are a genocide. The children are the victims of a conflict they had no hand in or way to stop. 64000 children have been murdered. Over 40000 children have lost one or both their parents. 55000 preschoolers are acutely malnourished.

The PCRF are an organisation that are actively helping children on the ground and that’s all that matters.

There are a few reasons we’re asking for your help. Firstly, we don’t have the capital to meaningfully contribute to these causes. We are renters and parents struggling to pay mortgages and keep our heads above water financially. This is not a problem unique to us. The cost of living crisis is affecting everyone, and every penny matters. This provides us with an opportunity to contribute something to help out. 

Secondly, alienation and atomisation are a plague affecting us all. We are rendered powerless in so many aspects of our lives and bombarded daily with stories of unremitting horror; it’s hard to feel anything other than defeated and disillusioned. We want to create something that gives that sense of being part of something greater than yourself, that at least tries to help. No one can change the world, but doing almost anything is better than doing nothing. Apathy is atrophy. 

Lastly, it’s fun. There is a joy in creation and partaking. It’s hard to express yourself creatively when you have nowhere to direct it. We want everyone to take part, not just professional musicians. We want rough recordings, wobbly vocals over out-of-tune cowboy chords, and free-form thoughts from those who care; something inextricably human. We want you to have fun expressing yourself. We want you to be part of something that takes your little piece and makes it part of a greater whole. Make it yourself, if it isn’t good, who cares, because it’s yours. Own it. It doesn’t matter if it’s perfect; what matters is that it was made by a person trying to do something.

If you can’t make any audio, there are many other ways you can help out. Spread the word, help us translate this document into different languages, do PR, draw a picture inspired by the idea, make a video, buy the album. Reach out and ask, and we’ll find some way for you to take part. Your contributions, whatever form they take, will be appreciated.

We are also pragmatic. This is not going to change the world. It is not going to stop a genocide or fix any systemic issues. We know that we’re not naive. But the point of this is not, and will never be, to save the world. The point is to create something bigger than ourselves and do something other than just rot away in a world of isolation, stress, and hopelessness. The bastards want you to doom scroll and give up because then they can move with impunity. BP invented the carbon footprint to shift the blame onto us and distract from their damage. So what we do might be small, but it’s not nothing.

Antisemitism and anti-Arab prejudice in any form are unacceptable. We have a zero-tolerance policy toward anything that espouses this regressive, idiotica worldview. All bigots will be ignored and told to fuck off.