Eye-Swarm Overture by jwilsey

"Eye-Swarm Overture" (2011) is a recording of a real-time performance of sampled sounds implemented via a Max/MSP patch designed to control changes in sample length, playback speed, and gain. Small differences in sample length and playback speed between left and right channels of the same sample voice contribute to a sense of stereo spatialization. Presets including a 5,000 msec ramp time fade were activated manually via computer keyboard controls. Umenu shifts in samples were also sometimes controlled manually. I composed this piece as a response to a quote from poet John Shade: “Space is a swarming in the eyes, and Time a singing in the ears.”