I didn’t know her work at all. I spent some time looking through a number of images and this one grabbed me. I like that while it is apparently linear and structured, like most of her work at that time, it has small irregularities and blips, unlike much of her work and much like most of my soundscapes.
I created a short “arched” sine tone which dropped a few tones and made a 15 second sonic piece, then replicated it, building a slightly irregular “structure” with uneven changes of pitch and tempo. This structure was duplicated and the mix treated with reverb. These were layered over a foundation tone made from the original tone structure and stretched and treated in the Abstract Chamber.
It’s a little ragged around the edges, but then, so is the image.
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The Assignment: Interpret a painting by Agnes Martin as if it were a graphic score.
Step 1: Look at the work of painter Agnes Martin, best known for her parallel lines.
Step 2: Select an individual work that suggests itself to you as a musical score.
Step 3: Record a short piece of music that interprets the painting selected in Step 2 as if it were a musical score.
More on this 456th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Line Up (The Assignment: Interpret a painting by Agnes Martin as if it were a graphic score), at:
https://disquiet.com/0456/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
