Dreams of Fin (2006) was conceived as an extension of Finnegan's Wake by
David Gompper. Gompper states that in
writing Finnegan's Wake, his "intention was to effect transformation of the foot-stomping
dance tune by leading it through a labyrinth of rhythmic manipulations, and into a series of
playful excursions."
I see his work also as an interpolation of the wake of the so-named character in James Joyce's final
novel of the same name. Dreams of Fin for violin and piano attempts to make a further
interpolation where the material then becomes an extension of Gompper's work, beginning precisely
where Finnegan's Wake ends as though one has passed into what Edgar Alan Poe once
referred to as the "Dream World." I thusly reordered the intervals of the primary motive from
Gompper's work and applied my own musical syntax to create a new motive.
Commissioned by Austrian violinist
Wolfgang Dávid, Dreams of Fin was premiered in Frankfurt, Germany
at the KuenstlerKlub on June 5, 2006, performed by Wolfgang Dávid and David Gompper.
Dreams of Fin (2006) was conceived as an extension of Finnegan's Wake by