Dream Machine - arr. Brian Balmages (Grade 5)This haunting, powerful and aggressive work draws inspiration from a type of strobe light device that can potentially put an observer into a state of threshold consciousness (the idea of being half asleep). The music portrays many sensations including the eerie feeling of being in a transitional sleep state, the fully intense experience of being surrounded by swirling shapes and colors, and then ventures into the world of lucid dreamers who often