Works

This work deals with three main ideas: motion, memory and mystery, all of which are combined and represented in a sonic portrait with a dreamlike contour. The piece is mostly built with sounds of concrete origin, both recognizable found objects and abstract sounds. The latter were heavily processed and are used throughout the work with little change giving it a repetitive texture that is sharply balanced by a clear formal unfolding. The idea of a loose time, mimicking a dream state moment, is reinforced by the pervasive use of a harmonic background. This background, based on the harmonic series of the A pitch appears as a distant call that echoes a lost stability. The recognizable sound objects of unfazed children at play, the overpowering sound of jet planes and the anxious sound of a train, are used to suggest an unsettling feeling, much like a strange dream. The suggestion of dreaming is further and directly exploited with the use of sounds associated with sleeping. The music materials are organized as a sequence of sonic images laid out on a temporal frame which unites and strengthens them.

Instrumentation (detailed)

Electronic / Electroacoustic

Electroacoustics

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Trois Rêves	Premiere	2003/Jan/07			Viana do Castelo	Portugal		Notes
Trois Rêves	Performance	2003/Sep/18	Música Viva Festival 2003	Transports Museum	Coimbra	Portugal		Notes
Trois Rêves	Performance	2008/Jul/13	Belém Art Centre / Música Portuguesa Hoje	Belém Art Centre - Luís de Freitas Branco Room	Lisbon	Portugal		Notes
Trois Rêves	Performance	2009/Oct/10	Precursores do Pop-Rock em Manteigas	Auditório do Centro Cívico	Manteigas	Portugal	Miso Music Portugal Orchestra of Loudspeakers	Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	Trois Rêves		trois reves Tomás Henriques