Music / Orchestral / In A Dream, Falling
In A Dream, Falling
for chamber orchestra
I wrote this piece at a time of great global anxiety and uncertainty, aiming to capture the kaleidoscope of emotions that I and those around me were experiencing. The piece is certainly influenced by my somewhat jumbled headspace whilst locked down for several months in my house in Melbourne. It is a work of contradictions and complications; moments of chaos interspersed with moments of stillness, density with sparseness, linear development with breaks of continuity. I drew inspiration from the way that time flows in dreams; fluidly stretching and condensing, floating from moment to moment, and lacking clear direction. This sense of time underpins the work and is the inspiration behind its opening image: you are in a dream, and you are falling.