redream

The most frightening nightmares are the nightmares we endlessly redream.

The orchestral Remix, Redream, Reflight, performed at the opening concert by the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck conducted by Beat Furrer (for interest we should add that the Czech music presented at the concert also included Leos Janacek's orchestral rhapsody Taras Bulba), was written in 2000 and is one of the most frequently played Smolka works for a large ensemble.

``I'mgoing to go away and redream everything and come back as a new me -thank you for being there,''he told fans.

In the orchestral composition Remix, Redream, Reflight a pathetic string unisono dominates.

So intensely did she endlessly redream this scene that it appeared in his movie without ever having been filled.

In this sense, Phillips's pages are dreamworks; he redreams Mallock's dream novel to extract nuggets of personal yet universal meaning.

Here, the flight from art and cognition can be as spectacular as any endorsement of high culture (in Bowie's suggestive formulation, the Recherche, saturated with literary allusions, 'redreams European literature').