2024
Farpoint Recordings
CD/Digital
When I look at Agnes Martin’s paintings, I feel a sense of infinity. I become lost in the spaces they create as they explode around and within me. In that moment, nothing exists but the painting.
The title of this album, faint red / pencil lines, refers to one aspect of Martin’s painting Morning. The first time I saw this painting, my eyes wandered around for several minutes before I noticed the red lines surrounding the darker grey lines. They captured my attention and led me around the space of the painting, making it feel simultaneously infinite and microscopic.
The two works on this album are made with analogue synthesiser and computer-generated sine waves. They are named in part after Martin paintings, but they are not about them; they are not about anything. The titles reflect the parallels between my experience of her work, and this type of continual sound, as things you are awash within.
They are studies of sound as something that is simply experienced.
Like the instruments and sound sources I have used to compose them, these works have no start or end. The versions on this album are the form they happened to take on two days in August 2023. I continue to adjust them, and consider the possibility that a listener’s memory of them may change as time passes, generating infinite versions of each piece. The listener’s choice of volume, speakers, and location within the space they they listen, have a noticeable impact on the sound of the works, and I hope this acts as encouragement to experiment with listening as a creative act.
