BEFORE ENTRANCE AND AFTER EXIT, DREAMS AWAIT (2022)

STRING QUARTET

10 minutes

Before entrance and after exit of each day, dreams unfold. While sleep prepares the body for the day, the day prepares the mind for the dreams at night. When the body is at rest, the mind flies. Throughout the day building blocks accumulate for the freer imagined world, where no boundary or logic dominates. People of faraway places and times are at play in one place, any place, where the extremes and impossibilities are effortlessly abundant, as veridical as the realities of the day, and where convincing seems just as superfluous as deceiving. Then one slowly exits the dream state to enter the day. As one keeps revolving between the atrium of the day and the openness of the night, life unfolds and expands in both worlds, from the first entrance to the last exit.

Performed at the Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program by Soundbox