Surf the Dune

Audio rendering of the score – a synthesized interpretation of the composition
This is not AI generated music, though I have used Chat GPT as a sparring partner and source of inspiration in the process.

Surf the Dune is a surreal desert story in prog-rock form. A feverish ride across burning dunes is shaped as a 7/8 swing with a phrygian-dominant colour, trying to evoke heat, shimmer and instability. After collapse and death, a mock news report — caricatured by a Charleston-like interlude — twists the story into grotesque comedy. The protagonist is reborn as a dung beetle, peacefully rolling his ball across the road, while a cheerful family drives toward an amusement park, singing in the car. The perspectives switch faster and faster until the inevitable happens: the beetle is run over, and this time the ending is final.