I often dream in music. What I remember of it when I wake up is usually a clear yet fragmented succession of chords, or impressions. The music in my dreams is actually vivid and tangible, something that should have been recorded somewhere in the universal library of forgotten ideas and unfinished thoughts. A place like Dream’s Library in The Sandman, only with phantom LP’s instead of books.
The music doesn’t always make a whole lot of sense on a rational level, but it does have an internal logic, as dreams do. And if I would be hard pressed to recall a melody, I can definitely conjure up some sounds that would be pretty close to their oneiric equivalent.

I’ve been toying with this track for about a week now. It has gone through several revisions, and while it is still mostly a demo, I do feel that the sound is as close as it gets to what I was trying to achieve. Things are distant, and yet you can touch them; you are running in a vast empty land but you find yourself in a familiar room; you have never seen this person before, and yet you know you’ve always loved her…

I don’t believe in over-analysing dreams, and I’m not one to relentlessly look for clues and freudian symbols, because you kill their primeval magic in doing so, but I truly believe that dreams can be an unexpected source of inspiration. The trick is in recreating these apparently disconnected vignettes into a narrative that anyone else could relate to.
Michel Gondry is a master of the trade, and I suppose his universe has been a major influence in this project. At least, as far as I’m concerned. It only makes sense that I keep thinking of Bjork’s Post as I listen to the track.

I think this is one of the weirdest pieces of music I’ve come up with so far. In a good way, I hope…

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The show is in less than 10 days. We have most of the music figured out at this point. Not yet sequenced, but we know where we’re going! I can’t wait to put everything together once the 2 animators arrive tomorrow. Next stop, Sunday practice with visuals. Then, it’s time to pack everything and set up the Recital studio. Exciting!