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Mute Hand Muse [For A Waking Dreamer]
Mute Hand Muse [For A Waking Dreamer]
Soprano, Alto Flute (doubling Bass Flute), and Piano
Composer's Note:
What if the distinction that we make between waking and dreaming were an artificial construct? To what extent could/do these states interpenetrate? Might they constitute an unbearable, inescapable non-binary continuum for Her (the micro-opera's sole protagonist)? Or, might the "laws" of the dream-state serve to liberate Her from imprisonment in the limitations of the waking world? The composer's own dream, described in the micro-opera's final "scene", has been with him in that waking world ever since he dreamed it, superimposing its Escher-esque geometry upon his perception of reality.
Authored (or revised): 2016
Text source: Poem by the composer, dated 1993.
Duration (minutes): 9
First performance: October 23, 2015 at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California [Stephanie Aston, soprano; Rachel Rudich, flutes; Gayle Blankenburg, piano]
Book format: Score only
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