Tomorrow's Dream Not the Same

Dreams have their own logic, images, and sometimes language. And even our recurring dreamscapes seem different each time we re-experience them (that falling sensation is never really the same each time). Tomorrow’s Dream Not the Same explores this universe in choral sound, removed from our everyday speech. Interestingly enough, this subject matter (and even the title) didn’t reveal itself to me until after I started composing. It took a few notes on the page before I had that “a-ha” moment of “oh, this is what the piece is about”. My musical interpretation of this world is a multi-section piece of alternating tempos (slow / fast / slow / fast / slow) that merge together into one landscape.

Both of the above influenced Tomorrow’s Dream in equal measure: the use and sound of individual voice parts (a first for me), and a flow that (I hope) captures some of the magic of a dream-reality that is recognizably human and even linguistic, but definitely unlike our waking moments.