A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the sequence of the hours, the order of the years and worlds…
– Marcel Proust
On October 22 at 7 PM, the Great Hall of Sapieha Palace will host a performance of composer Ramūnas Motiekaitis’s Dreams, a work for electronics and piano.
The piece explores the threshold between dream and reality. Taking its cue from Marcel Proust’s reflection and a child’s question – “Dad, can the characters in our dreams see us?” – the musical space is shaped through layers of sound, motifs of light and shadow, subtle electronic timbres, and the resonance of the piano. The composer seeks to grasp what resists clear verbal explanation and to reveal the singular nature of music.
“I am trying to grasp what cannot be explained with complete clarity, and I never cease to marvel at music, which, while being the most semantically obscure of the arts, is at the same time utterly concrete,” says Ramūnas Motiekaitis.