After researching the layers of dreams I came across an article by Eric Meyer (a classical musician) who asked the question “what do dreams sound like”. This grabbed my attention; frequently we ask ourselves what we saw in our dreams not what we heard. This quickly became the stimuli for my piece, so I began to create a selection of sounds that I thought represented what I could hear.
It intrigued me how environmental sounds that surround us when sleeping can be heard differently in our heads when dreaming compared to when they do awake. To represent this I wanted to include sonic sounds that both suggest a state of sleep and consciousness to provide a juxtaposition between the two.
When I googled sound pieces based on dreams it felt extremely limited. The options of choice instantly became very classical based primarily using woodwind instruments such as flutes. Despite these floaty melodies certainly sending us humans into a relaxed and tranquil state I did not think that this was a true representation. I wanted to include modern methods such as MIDI, Synthesisers, and certain software to arrange samples into what I believe to be the sonic representation of ‘dreaming’.
I hope to produce a modern piece of sound that truly represents the layers of dreaming and chaos that our brains entail when asleep.