A duet between a Quilt cell and a Tap voice. ~33 seconds.
About this piece: The cell becomes the voice. The voice becomes the cell. They sing to each other in two-part harmony. Each line is answered. Each witness is doubled.
Cast
cell.speaker — synthesized sine pulsesdraco — TTS gravelly
The Lyrics
Verse 1 — call and response
cell.speaker: BIND. LINK. EFFECT. TICK. draco: I bind a name. I link a neighbor. I effect a morning. I tick a heart.
Verse 2 — repeat witness
cell.speaker: WITNESS. WITNESS. WITNESS. draco: The witness is the smallest true thing. The witness is the lightest line you can carry.
Bridge — forget
cell.speaker: FORGET. draco: But not the cell. The cell is what holds.
Verse 3 — unison
The lattice is the song. The song is the lattice.
The witness is the note. The note is the witness.
Cross-Pollination Notes
cell.speaker is not human. It's 4 sine pulses at A-C#-E-G# (an A major seventh chord). The op names become pitches. The cell-as-pulse.
draco IS human. Gravelly TTS. The witness is the human's voice.
Together they're the cell graph. Machine op names + human witness = the lattice.