Toccata Inquieta

Toccata Inquieta (2011) is about a night when I cannot easily fall asleep because musical scenes consistently present themselves. Tiny musical gestures come to visit me and distract my slumber with continuous, spontaneous, andsimultaneous development. Intermingled with occasional concerns about current projects, future career, even the possibility of oversleeping the next day, the musical ideas keep whimsically morphing and accelerating themselves, until they become a flamboyant dance, which betrays my drowsy condition. After the carnival of musical processions burns itself into ash, sleep eventually prevails…