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Re: Clarinet Dreams

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-01-03 12:29

At least half the music I've written started with a lucid dream. The trick then is to hustle to the computer the minute I really wake up and write down the notes before I forget them, which can happen astoundingly fast. Those music-writing dreams seem to happen in clusters. I'll have a bunch of them in a sort of creative seizure for a few weeks and then nothing at all for months on end. Same thing happens with writing fiction -- I'm in one of those fiction cycles now and it's damned inconvenient, because I have a long article to finish on assignment.

The fiction I'm working on right now started with one of those dreams about a clarinet. In the dream, I prowled the Renningers Extravaganza flea market (real, three times a year, in Kutztown, Pennsylvania) and found an antique clarinet made by a renowned (fictional) maker. The clarinet was stuffed completely full of loose, smudge-mixture incense that smelled weird, to the point of makijg me light-headed. (Real life component here, too: I collect antique incense burners and I'd recently read in the newspaper that head shops sell, with a wink and a nudge, a soon-to-be-illegal synthetic marijuana as "incense.") One bottom corner of the case was bashed in. Steel-wool fragments in what little was left of the leather on that corner showed where someone had tried unsuccessfully to scrub off an old, dry, dark brown stain....

And then I woke up. I thought I could finish the short story in a few days, but it ran amok until I held it down and slit it into chapters.

Lelia
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