Link to dream score

The score was designed to be performed in both dream and wakeful states. Dream Recorder originated from an earlier project, “Dreaming in a Time of Pandemic,” inspired by recent research on how crises impact dreams and cognitive processes. So, quite literally the piece is intended to be performed in a dream. To do this the performer needs to do things like:mentally rehearse before sleep,practice dream journaling, use sound and light cues to help them realise they are dreaming etc. This waking-life adaptation, it has been expanded to a 20-minute performance with Dr. Alana Blackburn. The stage is arranged with a variety of mirrors that fragment our perception, echoing the unstable and distorted nature of mirrors in dreams. Looking at a mirror in a dream is a good way to determine whether you are dreaming or not. Some key questions that arise include: Can we consciously shape the music we experience in dreams? Does the performer hold any conscious or unconscious agency over their interpretation of the music? How do we engage with involuntary musical imagery? And in what ways does our brain “listen” to it?