CARLO TOSATO

What I wanted to recreate in this piece is the dream world, in its most mysterious and unconscious element, but at the same time controlled by the dreamer’s conscience, which molds everything and gives shape to the product of the unconscious. I have turned all this into four melodic fragments, which I mute, enlarge, distort and develop, and which I combine together in ever different and unique forms. The first three fragments are presented together already from the beginning of the piece, while the fourth makes its entrance from the third part (bar 100). I wanted the piece to flow through flows, as if they were multiple streams of consciousness (or unconsciousness). For the whole structure I based myself on the dream process of each human being, which involves the alternation of REM phases (where the dream takes place) and phases of deep sleep.

I did not turn the whole dream process into music, but I used a part of it to which I added my own interpretation.
To each part I then associated, generically, a color, evoked by my personal and subjective perception of melodic flow: in the first dream I associated pure blue, in deep sleep black and in the second dream yellow.

Throughout the piece these fragments will be modified, transposed, distorted, transformed, and in addition they will also change their functional importance: sometimes they will be in the main melodic flow, other times in the counter melody, other times still in the accompaniment.
It is well known that we do not remember much of what we dream of, consequently in my piece I mostly characterized a fragment (bars 125-148) which will ideally be the only fragment that the imaginary subject will remember on awakening. The rest I characterized it with a strong ambiguity and a complex compositional structure.