Notes On A Dream is a 2009 release comprising 9 interpretations of classic Dream Theater songs, and 3 original pieces, respectively Perpetuum Mobile, The Grand Escapement and Collision Point. All songs are instrumental, and played solely on piano. Jordan Rudess about NOAD: "Well, the first thing I should tell you about, quite honestly, it was not really my idea to do this. It was my wife’s idea. She said , “You should do an album of Dream Theater songs all on solo piano.” And of course that makes a lot of sense. I’ve heard a couple people doing piano things based on Dream Theater music, and my first thought was, “Well, I should do that.” But life gets very busy and I’m on to other things and making rock solo albums and using all my synthesizers and doing a lot of stuff. But then Danielle was saying, “You should do this. You should do this.” So finally I got around to the point where I was like, “I’m going to do this. I’m going to make it happen.” " User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.