Douglas Geers
Freeway Dreams
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Freeway Dreams was written for the 1998 Non Sequitur festival in New York City. This festival, presented by ComposersCollaborative, Inc., is an annual summer music festival that seeks to be both cutting edge and fun. For instance, the concert I participated in was an evening-long caberet presentation built around the song "One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall". The show featured an emcee/comedian, nearly fifty musicians, and visual projections; the format of presentation was that every piece on the show must mention at least one number, and that they would be performed in descending order from 100 to zero. I contibuted two short movements for computer music, entitled Freeway Dreams, parts 1 and 2. I intended for these works to have a sort of David Lynch quality, in that they are clearly odd, but one can't always be sure to what degree they mean to be either serious and/or funny. Part one traces the numbers down from 90 to 87; part two follows 59-56.
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