Realizing that Halloween is tomorrow, I wanted to take some time and showcase a work that I created a few years ago that is appropriate for the holiday. I originally created "Five Nightmares" as a possible electroacoustic piece for toy piano and stereophonic playback. I later removed the toy piano because I realized that, through further editing in the future, it could function as a solo work. I perceive "Five Nightmares" as a mostly cyclical work connected by the poem "A Dream Within a Dream" (publ. 1850, Public Domain) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), which I narrate and distort in different forms: mainly through electronically morphing and reversing my voice sound samples. I, then, layered that with improvisational synthesised music and sounds created and edited via Audacity and smartphone music apps, like Plasma Sound, Lexis Audio Editor and others. This final combination results in an eerie atmosphere reminiscent of bad dreams.
The first two movements that you will hear in the video reflect the two stanza of "A Dream Within a Dream," which I divided in this way to make the piece more interesting. All five movements from this piece are currently available on my Patreon page. Please note that each movement on my page is listed as an individual track. I had to do this because the entire wore, which is over 30 minutes long, exceeds the 200MB file limit on Patreon.
The first two movements that you will hear in the video reflect the two stanza of "A Dream Within a Dream," which I divided in this way to make the piece more interesting. All five movements from this piece are currently available on my Patreon page. Please note that each movement on my page is listed as an individual track. I had to do this because the entire wore, which is over 30 minutes long, exceeds the 200MB file limit on Patreon.
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