Name: Alternatives To Despair (Part Three) by Neil March by Trust-The-Doc (Neil March) in Alternatives To Despair (EP) by Neil March [2020, Demerara Records]
Duration: 3 min 6 s
Description: Every note and every sound on this track is played by environmental sounds that have been recorded and fed into Audacity.

BBC Introducing Composer & Recording Artis utilises recordings of environmental sounds (construction machinery, sirens, alarms, engines, cafe equipment, leaf blowers etc.) to create harmony and music that is juxtaposed against notated instrumental music and voices.

Alternatives To Despair (EP) by Neil March  [2020, Demerara Records]

tummelplatz

Tummelplatz 14.12.18

Break

https://soundcloud.com/tengos-trail/sealed-off

Sealed Off - Tengo's Trail - Sunday Jam-Collab

Amalgam of tracks accompany synth sounds and rhythms: 'Upstream' & 'Downstream' (clarinet tracks from the album 'Upstream-Downstream' (on Bandcamp) together with 'Long Distant' (soprano saxophones).

Upstream-Downstream (Long Distant)

2020

Paris Brasil

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4E91iv6ciiQBtsyQaprtug

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2z2ugiTNppfcvhmUq8ocsY?si=ooZFkaWIQI29JN7KRHe84Q

So Freaky

Final track from the 'Alternatives To Despair' EP sees instrumental parts playing off against saws, sirens, hovercrafts etc. but with an air of melancholy that intensifies in the final section.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Four) by Neil March

According to art historian Lawrence Alloway, Agnes Martin was one of the principal pioneers of the “Hard-Edge” 1950's painting movement. “Even where forms are not purely represented,” he wrote, “[Hard-Edge] abstract artists have tended toward a compilation of separable elements, treated as discrete entities. Forms are few and the surface immaculate … the whole picture becomes the unit. The result of this sparseness is that the spatial effect of figures on a field is avoided.”

Martin’s work evokes not only austere minimalism but also a cerebral airiness, perhaps gained from when Martin lived in New Mexico while attending university. Her work appears to vibrate off the canvas, the rigor of her craft subtly transformed into a sort of trembly dissonance. Even a simple line appears to breathe; a series of seemingly identical shapes reveal hidden nuances on close inspection.

For this piece written for fake violins, Suss Müsik interpreted Martin’s lovely 1961 work entitled Words (ink and graphic on paper, mounted on canvas) as a graphical score. The parallel lines are represented by sustained, repetitious phrases playing a single note. The triangles are conveyed through a simple 3-note counterpoint performed in consecutive sets of four, four, six, six, six, six, four and four. 

The piece is titled Words and was recorded live with one overdub for piano embellishment.

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/

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Words [Disquiet0456]

Every note and every sound on this track is played by environmental sounds that have been recorded and fed into Audacity.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Three) by Neil March

Environmental sounds from which pitch can be identified are used for harmonic as well as ambient purposes and juxtaposed against notated music. New EP by BBC Introducing composer and recording artist.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Two) by Neil March

Alternatives To Despair (Part One) by Neil March

her imaginary whispers this morning...
became my day.

That Libra Caress

Fire

Original track - https://youtu.be/PIFWBlG6vug
MOSNAR DET -  Remixing, Drum Programming

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Composer/Artist (signed to Monochrome Motif Records); Arts Council & Lottery supported creative entrepreneur; tutor & module leader, ICMP; Fresh on the Net moderator & reviews writer: blogger: author, husband & dad.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Three) by Neil March

Trust-The-Doc (Neil March)

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