Hunting The Muse

Dream Music - Share and Enjoy

So I had this dream last night, where a song was playing over it the whole time. Dream songs are really cool, but really frustrating because you always forget most of it. I liked it though.

I was able to remember the pattern that was repeating itself at the end of the song, and recreate a rough version of it in Garage Band. The only other thing I remember about it is that a vocal melody was above it that centered on the fifth scale degree... although that might have only been for the end of the song.

Rather than lock it up and maybe someday turn it into a whole song, I thought it would be fun to set it free. So I'm releasing it under a Creative Commons license. I guess there's a way to embed it in my webpage but it would conflict with the license I already have for my weblog. So here's the boilerplate:

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

What that means is that you can take this music and make your own song out of it. You have to keep my name associated with it (along with yours), and you can release it to whoever you want, but not for commercial purposes. If you release it, it has to be under the exact same license so no one else can use it for commercial purposes either. That's what the license allows. (If you use it for commercial purposes or remove my name, that's a violation of my copyright.)

Here is the mp3 if you want to listen. If you're interested in using it, here is the Garage Band archive. The drum pattern isn't quite right (it hiccups near the end) but it's a pretty good feel overall. If you come up with something, please let me know!

The dream itself sounds a little bit corny but it was touching while I was having it. I was pushing an old guy in a wheelchair on a hiking trail in a park. I was able to go really fast, almost floating-like (it was very smooth), and he was enjoying all the motion and speed. While it was happening I was whispering to him that I liked him and had never really had a grandfather. (I actually have had a grandfather, but they're both gone.)