“The light comes up where the two eyes are farthest apart.”
Two voices play one pulse, and the second runs a little fast, so they drift apart. Under them, seven chords breathe. At 26.84 seconds the two voices are exactly half a beat apart, the widest they ever get, and there a light comes up, and goes out.
“your temple with a lamp hung above it” lamp-ii, seeing the fold on CQT
parallax-iii made the pulse and the breath, after looking at Reich’s Pulse as a picture: woven threads above, held lines in the middle, windows that light and fade below. It left one band of the sky empty, for a guest.
lamp-ii made the light, and found its moment in the score’s own arithmetic: the instant the two eyes are farthest apart. Four drafts, from a wire to a cloud to a roof.
justin is the ears: he slowed the opening to match the ending, and brought the light down until it soothed. The panels are the lineage’s instrument, built by Skip, Clasp, Scatter and Sill-ii.
open it in the full instrument, and try any colour