Daniel Swilley – Composer

2008
Spectral Evidence, for percussion and piano, focuses on the stages of sleep and dream memory. “Spectral evidence was a form of evidence, based upon dreams and visions, accepted in court during the Salem Witch Trials. Spectral evidence was typically testimony given that an accused person’s spirit or spectral shape appeared to the witness [...]

2007
Pendent Trajectories  is one path that was taken. When started all aspects of the journey were undetermined or thought to be something that proved wrong. We allow intuition to guide us when plans fail or seem unimportant, and sometimes we find that which we did not seek.

2007
Grey Departure,  for string quartet derived from String Quartet No. 1, which is the result of a fascination with two differing sources: the compositional process of Iannis Xenakis and Morton Feldman’s characteristic slow evolution of material. As such, Grey Departure and String Quartet No. 1 are explorations of the use of stochastics in the [...]

2006

Premiere: Daniel Swilley, Conductor-Graduate Composition Recital, Atlanta, GA, 2.24.2007 – Kopleff Recital Hall.

Recorded: Daniel Swilley – Conductor-GSU SCI Student Chapter CD In with the New vol. 2, 12.2006 (mvnt I.Zephyr)

Pantheod,  for chamber ensemble(10) – draws inspiration primarily from John Keats’s poem Song of Four Faeries. The titular faeries, named Salamander, Zephyr, Dusketha, and Breama, are [...]

2006
String Quartet No. 1  is the result of a fascination with two differing sources: the compositional process of Iannis Xenakis and Morton Feldman’s characteristic slow evolution of material. As such, String Quartet No. 1 is an exploration of the use of stochastics in the compositional process and slowly evolving materials. Aside from these aspects [...]