Thomas Alexander KolbeOn March 20, I will release “Songs in My Dreams”.
This time, I am not only composing and producing - I am also singing. The voice is not an added layer; it is the structural center of the piece. That decision changes the internal balance of a composition. Writing for one’s own voice exposes different thresholds: range, breath, fragility, restraint.
The lyrics were written deliberately in a poetic mode. Not as narrative explanation, but as condensation. I was less interested in describing dreams than in articulating the tension that follows them - the moment of waking when something internally coherent withdraws. Poetry allows ambiguity to remain intact. It resists closure.
For me, composition and research are not separate domains. My studio practice functions as a primary field of inquiry. Questions about memory, internal auditory imagery, and the instability of recall are worked through musically before they are formulated conceptually. In that sense, the act of writing and singing this song is already part of the investigation.
Some early genre classifications place the track within Adult Contemporary, based on its formal clarity and melodic hooks. I neither pursue nor reject such labels. They describe external features. My focus lies on the underlying processes.
“Songs in My Dreams” is therefore less about dreaming itself than about the awareness of loss - and the attempt to give that absence a voice.
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