The music maker

Last night, on the verge of waking I remained in a "twilight zone" between my dream and awakening. In the background of my dream there was a gershwin style symphony playing. I knew I was not fully awake because the symphony sounded to real, to be just playback from the brain.

Now I love to make impromptu symphonies in my head. For example after listening to a lot of classical music, I can make an ongoing classical symphony in my head, hearing an entirely classical symphony in my head, by using themes and structure that I have gotten a feel for after listening to classical music for a long while.

However, the downside is, it is still not as real as having the symphony playback in headphones. My internal concentration just can't put me into a state where the sounds feel external.

But, in this dream I had the perfect symphony, and I began to hear the music I was making in my head. The sound would play externally. The symphony was real. So I began to create a gershwin style symphony in my head. The entire symphony was there. The beat was sharp and jazzy. I tried to conciously create the melody and beat, and when I would stutter for a note the symphony would stutter.

So then I just decided to listen to my subconcious create the music. It's almost as if in that certain state, my subconciousness could just write music. Original music, that I was listening to first hand.

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I have entered into this state multiple times before, last time I was writing classical. But the reason why I think it happened this time, was that at night
I was listening to a Gershwin's Concerto F. While listening to it, I tried to imagine myself at the symhony, where I saw it live before. I tried to imagine each section or instrument, playing their parts, the piano in the center, with the piano player and his facial expressions, and the conductor's motions. I fell asleep listening to the Gershwin CD...
When I woke up I was writing it!

I grabbed my CD player off the floor, and tried to write the symphony again. It didn't work as well but I made some fun.

Wow!

You were lucid while creating the music right?

Ive tried creating.... or more hearing on music in one LD before.... that wasnt exactely a symphony i heard :wink:, it went more like... pling... plong... ding or something.... but the concept is cool. Im going to try this to one time.

Even though I don't know enough about classical music to write the exact type I'd like to I still would love to "achieve" this...I think It might help.

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Originally posted by sephiroth clock
...I tried to conciously create the melody and beat, and when I would stutter for a note the symphony would stutter.

So then I just decided to listen to my subconcious create the music. It's almost as if in that certain state, my subconciousness could just write music. Original music, that I was listening to first hand.

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I'm glad you didn't control all of that away.

I've been in dream concerts. I assume that the other musicians know what they are doing, and just worry about my own instrument. But the way I look at music -- the theme of the music has already made all of the big decisions for itself, and as far as my part goes, if you know music, then you know your own part. Its not really creative. It is simply following the idea of the music with an educated ear and educated fingers.

This guy in the 18th century had a dream were the devil was playing a song and when he woke up he turned it into a classical song if you learn to write music you could be a famous musician.