As a continuation of both Jimmy and Scott's ideas around the subject of sleep I tried to create something which represents
the process of dreaming. It's a response to their work, a kind of
release to the tension they created. If their music focused on the
sound of places where we sleep or the transition into sleep from
a conscious state then my piece is roughly intended as a kind of
musical visitation, something which happens in the mind after we
fall to sleep, –like a distant radio
transmission rising out of silence and filling the void for a just
short time.
One of the things which interests me most on this subject is the notion
of 'dream memories', –memories of things which never happened
or never could have happened, it's strange how our minds can hold onto
these things and how real they actually feel sometimes regardless of
their surreality. When it comes to being creative, I'd like to think
that our dreams play a big part in informing the work we do.
My piece uses a small section of Scott's drone sounds which comes in
about mid-way and is fairly mutated. This gave me just enough
spark to form my own ideas. Mostly what you hear is some simple half-playing
on ukulele, I wanted to put forward the power of suggestion. Also,
I felt that a loose flow in the piece best suited the theme of dreaming.
Thomas Haugh (Hulk) / October 2008
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