IGOA, Enrique: Logos Oneiron, for voices, piano and electronics, 1995 (excerpt) by Enrique Igoa

The work Logos oneiron (“The logic of dreams”) manifests through the subtitle «Musical representation of a dream» a double allusion, on the one hand to the structure and the internal content of the discourse, articulated in its various sections according to the current duration of the sleep and its phases (Beta-phase, Alfa-phase, non-REM 1 to 4 phases and REM phase), proportionally reducing the 8 hours of a real dream to the 15 minutes that this work lasts, and assigning to each of them a musical material and texts to the most important (Rilke's verses on sleep in the non-REM phase 3 and texts by Freud, Pousseur, Adorno and Cunqueiro in the non-REM phase 2, all of them included in the recording, and poems of Argensola and Quevedo in the REM phase sung or recited live). But, on the other hand, the aforementioned subtitle also suggests a quasi-scenic, performing character for its pages, a kind of monodrama in which the soprano or the reciter / actress can stage a dramatic performance of her texts. Logos oneiron is also an open work: on a background of recorded electronic and live piano can act a singer (verses of Argensola and Quevedo) or a reciter / actress (poem of Quevedo), and all this can be heard in concert or as radio work. In addition, the work can carry background images as scenery, as well as live dance creating choreography around the soprano or the actress. All these possibilities have already been explored in the successive interpretations of the work.