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“Hypnokaséta (2020-2021) is a continuous set of 16 pieces for string quartet, improviser (playing cassettes and any instrument) and live electronics. The source material is based on dreams that I had during the first few months of lockdown, April-June 2020. Accounts of these dreams are encoded in the music that is played by the quartet and
also encrypted in the sound textures that surround this.
The pieces alternate between quartet as the foreground and electronic interludes, where solos or duos underpin the soundscape. The title of the piece (Greek for ‘sleep-cassette’) refers to a theory of dreams proposed by Daniel Dennett, that says that dreams are loaded into consciousness like a cassette tape during the night and played just before waking.
It was first performed under the name ‘Cassettes’ by Quatuor Bozzini and Andy Moor in October 2022, in Montreal and other places around Quebec. It was subsequently recorded in Studio Helmbrekers, Haarlem in November 2022 by Micha de Kanter.”
Released in:
2024