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/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Words [Disquiet0456]

‘Strange planet music begins’ when a civilian passenger starship makes an emergency landing on an unexplored planet and the crew and passengers emerge to take a look around…

More on this 469th weekly Disquiet Junto project, [Missing in Caption] (The Assignment: Make music that pushes the constraints of descriptive television captions), at:

https://disquiet.com/0469/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Rune Vallesether, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/9U2HvQ

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Strange Planet music begins (disquiet0469)

Emisión Vespertina del noticiero: Así es la Voz en la Noticia que se transmite en Medios Radiofónicos de Michoacán.

Clasics 99.1 FM Morelia, 106.5 FM en Pátzcuaro y 97.7 FM en Ciudad Hidalgo.

Radio Sol 103.9 en Ciudad Hidalgo, La Ley 94.9 FM en Pátzcuaro, 92.1 FM La Pura Ley en Apatzingán, 93.9 FM La Pura Ley en Lázaro Cárdenas y en www.radiomejor.com

Co Producción con La Voz de Michoacán.

Emisión Vespertina de Así es la Voz en la Noticia del 29 de diciembre del 2020

This interview first aired on Wednesday the 23rd of December 2020  on ONE FM 98.5 Shepparton.

One FM announcer Dave Taylor talks to Emily Guthrie the Community Engagement Co-ordinator of CFA District 22.  She tells Dave about what days of levels of fire danger  and Total Fire Ban days actually mean, how they get permits and what listeners need to be aware of this bushfire season.

You can stay updated on the CFA District 22 Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/cfadistrict22communitysafety

For more information go to https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/home.
to contact CFA District 22 locally call 58 33 24 00 during business hours.

Listen to Dave Taylor on One FM 98.5.

Contact the station on admin@fm985.com.au or (+613) 58313131

The ONE FM 98.5 Community Radio podcast page operates under the license of Goulburn Valley Community Radio Inc. (ONE FM) Number 1385226/1.

PRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association Limited  and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) that covers Simulcasting and Online content including podcasts with musical content, that we pay every year. This licence number is 1385226/1

Dave Taylor interviews Emily Guthrie from CFA District 22 - December 23, 2020

This interview first aired on Wednesday the 30th of December 2020  on ONE FM 98.5 Shepparton.

One FM announcer Dave Taylor interviews Tony Nappa, President of the Kiwanis Club of Mooroopna.  He gives a rundown on all the work the Kiwanis Clubs do in the local community and what they have planned for 2021.

Locally you can get involved with the Kiwanis Club of Mooroopna at - http://members.iinet.net.au/~mvs/info.html or on Facebook
or the Kiwanis Club of Shepparton Sunrisers at - https://www.facebook.com/KiwanisSheppartonSunrisers/

For more information call Club Secretary Murray Shields on 5825 2686 or Tony Nappa on 0408 575192 during office hours.

Listen to Dave Taylor on One FM 98.5.

Contact the station on admin@fm985.com.au or (+613) 58313131

The ONE FM 98.5 Community Radio podcast page operates under the license of Goulburn Valley Community Radio Inc. (ONE FM) Number 1385226/1.

PRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association Limited  and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) that covers Simulcasting and Online content including podcasts with musical content, that we pay every year. This licence number is 1385226/1

Dave Taylor interviews Tony Nappa from Kiwanis Club Mooroopna - December 30, 2020

Topic: Volunteer Opportunities, Serving the Elderly Community in Chico, CA
Program: Community Bridge
Air Date: January 3rd, 2021
Guest: Joseph Cobery, Passages Director

KHAP 89.1 FM Chico, CA - Passages

Topic: Hartstone Bible Camp Makes a Way for Local Churches to Share the Gospel
Program: Community Bridge
Air Date: January 3rd, 2021
Guest: Joseph Cobery, Passages Director

KPRA 89.5 FM Ukiah, CA - Hartstone Bible Camp

Ronnie Young  Whose place is it?                          02:59 mins

The nature sounds you will hear were recorded on the outskirts of our town. When recording them I was blown away by the number of birds creating the noisy community I found myself in. It really was like a sound bath of bird calls. I realised after listening to the recording that I was very much just a visitor on my own block of land. It was very disconcerting to realise how LOUD my footsteps were as I picked my way through the undergrowth.

The constant in the whole recording is the ocean forever in the background to some degree at this time of the year.

As you listen to the bird calls notice how many there are; how they overlap, stand alone or blend. 

Do they appear to interrupt, are they singing a continuous song or do they seem to be away in the distance participating in another conversation.

Look at the image and notice the spike in the recording. Midway through the recording  you will hear the calls of transient noise makers interrupting the balance in the community; the call of the common motorbike, the high pitched beeps of the backing truck and the whirring sound of the potentially invasive drone. 

As the recording returns to the bird banter close your eyes and notice how it takes a moment for you to tune back in. 

Enjoy the sound experience and as you leave, consider your own impact on the environment whether at home, camping or taking a walk,  and ask yourself...
"Am I the loudest local?"
"Am I the biggest broadcaster?"

This recording was created as part of the Flowers & Feathers Soundscape Project for the Esperance Wildflower Festival 2020. Community members were introduced to outdoor sound recording and combined these with the theme "Flowers and Feathers: Friends or Foes?" -- a celebration of local plant and bird species and the important relationships between them.

Artist/workshop leader: Perdita Phillips
Editing Support: Meredith Waters, Manager Hope103FM

Whose Place Is It by Ronnie Young

"The Rook, The _______, and The _______"
- first part of a trio to be completed by others...
...Please fill in the blanks!

5/4 meter, 110.43bpm
D Phrygian bass: D-A-G | D-G-F-Eb-F

This track was turned into a duo:
https://soundcloud.com/user-130801280/the-rook-edit-12-export-2

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More on this 472nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Jam Time (1 of 3) / The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio that others will complete — at:
https://disquiet.com/0472/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/
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synth: Pulsar-23 w/Pulsar Buddy
controllers: Boppad, nanoKEY2, nanoKONTROL, Wave
looper: "bicycle" on Raspberry Pi

Jamuary 14 - Disquiet 0472

Morn Lighting (solo voice track)  NOTES

January 13, 2021 Naviar Haiku #367, a poem by Morikawa Kyoroku:

morning light
the first blossoms of spring
bloom over-night

The Haiku was divided into 12 syllables and randomly reordered. This was done 12 times creating 12 lines of random text from the original Haiku. I recorded myself reading the text. 

The track can be chopped into phrases to make it longer or add space for other sounds.

Morn Lighting (Jam Time)Disquiet0472

Disquiet Junto Project 0477: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.

I was doing something else on my iPad, sitting outside in the sun this afternoon, when the nearby bells belled. I suddenly remembered a sentence I read just yesterday, that natural idiophones where the best base for granular synthesis. I managed to record the already fading bells with the iPad and loaded copies of the samples into the Samplr App. It's three tracks with the original sample (I mixed the unchanged version to the beginning of the track), two of them very normal, one very high und unrecognisable as such. This settings and the recording in AudioShare I did by looking, then I flew blind, which is not impossible as Samplr gives you some defined area to touch (and you need to look to stop the machine or tracks with two fingers). But as the iPad surface does not give any haptic feedback, there were a lot of things going wrong anyway. This track uses around 5 minutes that sounded pretty good to me, but maybe it's just because I like church bells. Trivia: In this case it's the St. Maximilian church in Munich, Germany, and the bells have vintage names like Otto, Ludwig, Maximilian and Salve and they bell every saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. (and no, I didn't knew that until I checked Wikipedia for this description).

Track cover based on "Manto and Tiresias" by Henry Singleton (1766-1839) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Singleton_(1766-1839)_-_Manto_and_Tiresias_-_N01028_-_National_Gallery.jpg

More on this 477th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Flying Blind (The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.) — at:
https://disquiet.com/0477/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0477-flying-blind/

Typhlotic Bells [disquiet0477]

One FM Community Radio Station airs a range of programs, including  "Ethnic Programs"  (in languages other than English), specialist interview programs such as "Shepplife" and health programs (So Much More)which are podcast here.  We also podcast a range of local sports programs as part of our Super Saturday Sports Show.  
Goulburn Valley Community Radio Station  Inc. (One FM 98.5) podcast site operates under APRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Rights Association and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) and ACMA (Australian Communications Media Authority) Licence Number  1385226/1.

The programs are recorded and first aired at One FM 98.5 Community Radio Station in Shepparton (Victoria, AUSTRALIA), and produced with the assistance of the Community Broadcasting Foundation or the National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters' Council.

All intro and outro music for So Much More podcasts are taken from Beneplacito Boogaloo composed by Terry Barbossa and Matt Holland.