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Another Lucid Dream

from Dystophilia by MC Maguire

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Another Lucid Dream is 27-minute orchestral/electronic work based on Juice Wrld’s haunting song, ‘Lucid Dream’. The lyrics and music by the deceased hip hop artist not only reflect upon a painful breakup but also is a kind of memorial to his tragic, short life.

The song clearly touched a chord with the general populace and became a kind of depressive anthem of the time. My intent was to tap into the ‘structural sadness’ of the song, using the song’s material as the ‘ursatz’, or deep design. It became the mathematical blueprint for all aspects of the piece, then expanding the source material into one large harmonic, melodic and rhythmic grid.

Also, there’s a strong musical/historical connection with Purcell’s Dido’s Lament (and 17th C. arias in general) in its use of a descending bass over brief, emotive, melodic fragments. This piece is also centred around a recurring bass passacaglia, which I looped 93 times (a recurring lucid dream) over 8 movements, stretching and contracting the length of the passacaglia. Needless to say, the movements end up in either duple or triplet grooves, often in weird contradictions to the steady quarter note = 84.

As far as pitch and harmony, the evocative melody is centred around a very limited, 5-note Phrygian mode, emphasizing the anguished flat 2. The overall contour of the melody tends to dwell momentarily around the various five pitches quite democratically, being a generator for contrasting harmonic pitch sets within each section of the work.

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from Dystophilia, released January 1, 2024

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MC Maguire Toronto, Ontario

MC Maguire is a Toronto-based composer/producer who has created a quirky post-modern hybrid that combines classical, pop, jazz, electro-acoustic, and world music traditions. He works primarily in his studios’ multi-track environment (up to 400 tracks) combining live recording, sampling, synths, exotic plugins, and digital editing possibilities. ... more

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