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Vlad premiered his composition, Dreamworld Suite at Greenfield Hall as part of a Faculty Recital at the Manhattan School of Music, held and presented by Chloé Kiffer and Alexandre Moutouzkine.
The work is written in a reinvented style of Fragmentalism and incorporates several sections of improvisation and looping. The music was conceived as a companion piece to Vlad’s upcoming fantasy story, Dreamworld.
Story summary:
Dreamworld is where people go when they fall asleep. Humans drift through it in dreams, briefly possessing its inhabitants without realizing it. Nothing exists here unless it is being observed – cities remain real because many eyes watch them, while unwitnessed places slowly disappear. Timeline is collapsed and broken; there is no death, only rewinds. Memories fade, lives restart, and everyone returns slightly changed.
The story follows a shapeshifter on a quest to find his identity, revealing the strange world of dreams along the way.
Form:
Fragmentalism is the idea that meaning, identity, and beauty emerge not from wholeness or linear structure, but from fragments held in tension. It rejects classical development – exposition, climax, resolution – in favor of coexisting moments, interruptions, and discontinuities. A work is no longer bound to a single direction. Its ideas function as fragments – abstract puzzle pieces – capable of forming multiple paths, chosen and arranged by the performer. There are no mistakes here, only variations limited by imagination.
You can watch the full video of this performance on Vlad’s Instagram