In A Dream, Falling

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.

Instrumentation
1*.1.2*.1 - 2.2.1.1 - t+2p - hp. pno. - str. (2.2.2.2.1)

Year of Composition
2020

Duration
10 minutes

Commissioned by
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Cybec Foundation

Premiere
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Graham Abbott, Iwaki Auditorium (Melbourne), 22 January 2021.

Score
Available to hire via the Australian Music Centre