Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Childish Dreams. These “Childish Dreams” were written from an idea suggested to me by Jadwiga Mackiewicz and on an order I contracted with the Polish Radio’s Programme.
It was the ambition both of the composer that the work should have more than a musical value; that is should possess a visible didactic function. It has been our assumption that electronic music can attract a child’s attention and direct it toward the beauty of the sound world which surrounds him throughout every day: the specific attractiveness, the sound of machines, nature, the street. In making a child susceptible to this specific beauty of sound, his sensual world and his feeling for beauty are enriched.
“Childish Dreams” are my first step in such matters. In effect, it is a group of five short works with clearly defined content and titles: Lullaby, Train, In the Land of Ice, Dance of the Cats, Clock Talk. The sound material climate, the manner of the musical narration and the sound material I employed in the various parts correspond with the theme of each sound tale, each “dream,” to a great or smaller extent.
Though the music carries programme-type features, I feel I have successfully avoided being too literal and, in result, I am closer to the ultimate purpose I set myself in this work – to make children more aware of the beauty of sound and music.