Last night, had a funky dream where I was hanging out at my old secondary school in Abakaliki, which of course in the 15 years since I was there has been built up. a lot. It was a new school in 1983 and when I got there in 1988 to start secondary school, new buildings were still being built. In fact, during my first year a whole new wing was built for the incoming students the following year.

So back to the dream, where I was wondering around the school, taking coolpix on my digicam, enjoying and appreciating the differences. Then all the anachronisms kick in.

I think I recognize several people that at the time I might've known vaguely, they of course haven't changed a bit. Then people that I met at University started popping onto balconies, or I'd recognize them next to someone else ... funny mind games. I don't think I realized the error during the dream until I got hungry in it, woke up, and went to the kitchen to find something edible, all the recent scenarios still fresh and alive. That's when it registered that so-and-so couldn't have gone to Abakaliki 'cos I met them only 4 years later at CMU.

I wonder how anachronisms might work in music and sound. As much music is structured and obviously time-based, not all of it can work chronologically. What does it even mean for a sound to be out of chronologically out of place ??

Is that something like a sound coming from a device that hadn't yet been invented being misplaced within some period soundscape? What if there was not fixed temporal setting (e.g. 1983), then I guess it would be impossible to be out of place unless structurally something was out of place in an arrangement given certain stylistic constraints ....

I dunno ... enough ruminations for one morning ...