In 2015 I composed the first version of Lines of acid dreams, however, I felt I could not find the proper ways to explore and materialize my conceptual framework. When the Hub folks contacted me interested in that piece at the beginning of 2022, I knew I could finally revive my timbral, folding, floating textural ideas. To be clear, the piece is not a programmatic journey of acid dreams. The “acid dreams” are, in fact, daily realities. 

Musically speaking, nothing stayed from the original but the title. 

Lines of acid dreams gravities within and without time. However, as we cannot separate time from space, the textures were imagined as different spaces or locations. At the same time, the textures/spaces are also in a constant sense of temporal transition. Similarly, the timbral counterpoint strives to create vocal sounds and unison-like moments in a 3D harmonic space. And additionally, the four instruments playing almost entirely from beginning to end is a metaphor for twirling infinity lines, lines that intercut, contradict, and feedback mutually. 

Lines of acid dreams is dedicated to Hub New Music.

Commissioned by Hub New Music