Dream-less asks the question: “ why do we dream?” and “what do we dream about?” “who do we dream for and who dreams for us?” and more importantly, “what happens if the dream ends and we cease to … dream?” In a technological reality which seeks continuously and without shame or guilt to control every aspect of our relationship to the life-world, what is there left to dream about that is not informed by overwhelming forces beyond individual control? Who constructs our desires, and to what end?
When you stop having dreams and ideals — well, you might as well stop altogether. Marian Anderson
Although this line of thinking points to familiar social practices, particularly those of the mass media, this project seeks to work with the invisible signs of existence which escape, forever, the strictures and limits of coercive social interpellation. Exploiting an underlying awareness of ourselves as partially irrational beings, the music wishes to trade on the conjectural and intuitive expressions of everyday life which always attempt to subvert reason through its own ends. In this sense, we are playing those deep structures within each of us which give meaning to the meaningless and relevance to the insignificant; we are speaking and writing the incomprehensible, not so that it may be understood, but rather experienced.
Nothing happens unless first we dream. Carl Sandburg
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy
Album Cuts
Ave Memoria (5:28)
Chant (4:53)
Consuming Desire (5:10)
Dream-less (4:50)
Existence is Elsewhere (4:21)
March (4:43)
Scream (4:33)
The Seduction of Nature (4:22)
Triplets (5:23)
Production Credits
All Semiotek compositions by Pierre Ouellet & Jim MacDonald
Published by Venture Publishing (2014)
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Venture Studio Toronto (2019)
Album Art and Design by Catherine Piro
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.T.E. Lawrence
