Reverie

Reverie

Mick, Emer and Aoife initially approached the writing of this piece as individual musicians and composers, finding a focus in the painting and in the poem before blending their responses and merging their combined composition into their trio.

The unifying idea of travel generates the sentiment of motion in the music, influenced by the pulse, reverberation and the accumulation of sounds produced by the track and by the train, set against the backdrop of a journey from Sligo to Dublin. The context of the impossibly beautiful mountains and sea contrasted by the imminent arrival to an urban landscape influences the melody and the expression in the playing. The changing character of the terrain is reflected in the diversity of rhythms and textures offered in musical response. In the midst of the motion there is the dedicated gaze of a man deep in thought; the resolve in his pose, his mood, the colours that surround him in the carriage are articulated through an anchored musical recognition of this. And when the tone and atmosphere shift to the view outside the window, light breaks through and a brighter, wilder spirit emerges in the music.

1. Imeacht  ( Departure ) – air, composed by Emer Mayock
2. Inneall Gaile. ( Steam Engine ) – hop jig, composed by Aoife Ní Bhriain
3. Gluaiseacht ( Movement, Travel) – reel, composed by Mick O’Brien
4. Ceann Scíbe (Journey’s end ) – slip jig, composed by Mick O’Brien