Daniel Swilley – Composer

 2009
Pathfinder, electroacoustic music designed for 5.1 surround, draws inspiration from all the relatively small sounds that are made as we move through this world. The grating of rocks under foot, the crush of leaves, and the sounds of tree limbs snapping are among the sound sources used. The work is primarily concerned with motion, pace, [...]

2009
Farseer, for clarinet and quadraphonic interactive electronics and/or fixed media, is a culmination of the composer’s fascination with optics, visions, and, well, things-visual.  From considering the vast distances that we can now see with the aid of various lenses and other imagery devises, to the possibility of seeing into the future or past (via visions, [...]

2008
Garden Music is a short musical visage inspired by rock gardens and the contemplation of life. It was composed using a modified FM Gong instrument in CLM and samples of plucked piano.
Garden Music was composed with the aid of GraceCL, an algorithmic composition environment, by Taube.

2008
Absolute Zero is concerned with the “life” of the constituent particles of matter as they reach the invisible bonds of absolute zero.  Absolute Zero (noun) – the lowest temperature that is theoretically possible, at which the particle constituents of matter do not move or have minimal motion. Imagine these particles as “life [...]

2007
Edge Protocol, for two-channel electronic playback, is primarily concerned with the notion of the human mind under immense pressure or stress. The work is meant to convey states of mind of a person before they “crack.” However, this journey is not a one way plummet, but like the ebb and flow of life, [...]

2006

Premiere: SCI Student Chapter concert, Atlanta, GA, 12.8.2006 – Kopleff Recital Hall

Shadowed Moon,  for 2-channel electronic playback – draws both structural and programmatic inspiration from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. In a loose sense Shadowed Moon is a condensed commentary on Dark Side…, there is a section inspired by each track of the [...]

2006

Premiere: SCI Student Chapter concert, Atlanta, GA, 12.8.2006 – Kopleff Recital Hall

Trope,  for 2-channel electronic playback – was an exercise in the manipulation of speech and nonsense syllables. Trope was approach like a work for choir while focusing on the use of canon, cascading entrances, small bursts of sound, and equal division of the octave [...]