Disquiet Junto Project 0456: Line Up. The Assignment: Interpret a painting by Agnes Martin as if it were a graphic score.
Reading about Agnes Martin, my main impressions were: reduction and minimalism with a love for grids and subtile colours. So I started with a session with a Folktek Mescaline, lent by a friend, as the unpredictable obscurity of this sound device seemed to fit.
I recorded a repetitive pattern (Mental+Motion) of two minutes lenght as track 1. An addional track contained a FX chain of izotope de-click with "clicks only" on track 1 plus compressors, to emphasise the grid character of the pattern.
Some more tracks use FX VST like Michael Norris, Valhalla Supermassive and other stuff on track 1 to remove the grid from the Mescaline Sample in order to get subtile colour into the sound image.
Not all tracks start at the same time, like some images are painted layer by layer.
So its all a single Mescaline recording (repeated in recut slices) in different tracks/lines. Creating it I had "Island No. 1" http://www.artnet.com/artists/agnes-martin/island-no1-6G_Hb886ffkybA6WwVAK3g2 in mind, and for me the imperfection of the loop echoes that of the images grid.
After reading about Miss Martin, I think she would have refused my concept as too intellectual…
Track cover based on PD image
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3x5_Notecard.jpg
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