Fugue
1 - in music; a compositional procedure characterized by the systematic imitation of a principal theme (called the subject) in simultaneously sounding melodic lines (counterpoint). (enc. Britannica)

2 - dissociative fugue (formerly called psychogenic fugue); a rare psychological state in which a person loses awareness of their identity or other important autobiographical information (MacMillan dictionary)

In many respects we can consider the writing of fugue to be the apotheosis of a strand of musical thought which concerns itself with the weaving together of independent melodic line into a cohesive polyphonic whole. This thread, which can be traced back through hundreds of years of Western musics evolution, reaches the height of perfection in Bach's ‘Art of the Fugue’ and ‘Well Tempered Clavier’.

Composers as diverse as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Bartok, Shostakovich and many others went on to utilize its central concept in distinctly personal ways.
As a means of ordering musical thought it provides many intriguing challenges though I am also interested in exploring the musical potentials of fugues second meaning as a psychotic state of disorder involving memory loss, often coupled with a flight from ones usual environment.

Recorded in Barcelona / March 2020 - piano: Franco Piccinno - engineer: Audun Waage