KYLE VANDERBURG

Hallucinations

Voice and Piano ● Summer 2025 ● 16'30

Hallucinations

Tags

15-20 minutes Chamber Music Piano Vocal 

About

Hallucinations begins with a question: what happens if, instead of choosing the most probable next word, we choose the least likely one? The texts in this cycle read as though an algorithm has gone astray (because it has), slipping past expectation into absurd juxtapositions—bananas drizzle, napkins whisper, recipes collapse into riddles.

The music follows the words into these improbable spaces, emphasizing their awkward pauses, mismatched rhythms, and sudden bursts of clarity. By elevating the “wrong” choice, the cycle reveals how error can become poetry, and how imagination often lives where prediction fails.

Dedication

for Mara Campbell

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Publisher

NoteForge (ASCAP)

Kyle Vanderburg