SleepWalks: Hello World

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Hello World

On July 27th, 02012, SleepWalks performed at ADore in SF, CA. We were joined by eighteen dozy and delightful slumbernaughts.
We were also joined by Dr. Todd Anderson, a sleep research scientist with Sheep Dog Sciences. He tracked some of our slumbernaughts' sleep patterns through the night using Zeo headbands hacked into sleep trackers of his own design.
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Here is April's sleep pattern.

SleepWalks is currently matching our moment by moment log of sounds with the times April was in REM, as well as the moments before, in order to see if we can find correlations between our soundscapes and her dreams.

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Welcome to sleep

SleepWalks is a sound art project exploring the impact of sound on dreams by playing to a sleeping audience who then journal about their experience in the morning. Our goal for this long-term project--that began in 2009--is to create soundwalks for dreamers, and to explore the boundaries of collective dreaming.

Lee Pembleton and Andrea Williams use field recordings, live samples of room resonance, and various electronically processed acoustic instruments, to improvise an eight hour musical composition for an audience that sleeps in the performance space. Coffee and tea is served in the morning as the participants wake up, and they are asked to journal about their dreams and experiences.

During the performance Pembleton and Williams record the sound samples they use. Later, by reading the timestamp, they look for correlations between the sounds in the improvisation and writings from the participants' dream journals.

SleepWalks does not use spoken word as part of their guided dreaming. They do not use hypnosis, subliminal, nor subconscious verbal manipulation. Rather, they create an audio travelogue of abstract soundscapes; suggestions of environments.

Hear samples here:

http://www.vime.org/ensembles/sleep.html