Sheet Music: Score
Dream Recorder / Daniel Portelli
by Daniel Portelli (2024)
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- Instrumentation: Contrabass recorder, electronics, spring drum, angklung, tony piano, finger cymbals.
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Dream Recorder is an installation/performance for contra-bass recorder that explores dreams and consciousness research in a performance context. This project is a multimodal composition intended to be performed in both a dream and a wakeful state. The wakeful installation/performance that people walk through is scattered with mirrors that fragment and intersect our perceptual field. Mirrors exhibit unstable and distorted characteristics in dreams due to their elusive and ephemeral nature. Forms reflected in mirrors are perpetually in flux, and reveal the inherent instability of perception. People walk around as if in a 'dream' state, taking in the 'mirror affects' and the 'intermedial apparatus'. Mindfulness is likened to a mirror; it simply reflects what is there. It is not a process of thinking; it is preconceptual. Windt (2018) explains that 'conscious experience itself is in a sense virtual, an internal simulation upon which external stimuli exert a merely modulatory influence'. The amorphous, multisensorial gestures have potential to modulate sensory registers, our 'inner mimicry', and neural responses to affective and kinaesthetic empathy. The score, which can be performed in a dream or wakeful state, uses a non-linear clock-like graphic notation. The clocks are enigmatic puzzles that challenge the performer to theorise musical procedures. It creates 'temporal distortions' or lapses of disassociation where the 'duration of contemplation' becomes a time-based parameter in the music. Analysis of the score in relation to the dream and waking performances can reveal insights into phenomenologically diverse/phenomenal experiences, questions of agency, multisensory empathy, and the modulatory affects of the auditory mirror neuron circuit.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (34p. -- A4 (landscape))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 15 mins
Includes performance notes.
Graphic notation edition
ISMN: 979-0-67316-492-5
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