SleepWalks: A CatNap
A Two-Part Series on Tapping into
Lucid Dreaming For Creativity
with Andrea Williams
(event starts promptly at 8pm)
$25 for series or $15 for individual workshop in advance
$30 and $20 respectively at the door
**You are invited to stay later on June 7th to celebrate Andrea's Birthday! Dance party after the CatNap with DJ spinning records until midnight!**
TICKETS: 10-linda-way.ticketleap.co
We spend about one-third of our lives sleeping and dreaming, yet scientists still don't know exactly why. In an average lifespan of 77 years that is 25 years of our lives. Many cultures find wisdom in dreams.
Some theorists propose that before the industrial age, in the United States we would fall asleep at night for just a few hours, and then wake up and share dreams together before the second sleep of the night.
Bring your sleeping bags, pillows and comfy blankets to Stable Gate Farm and Winery for a first sleep–a 'catnap'– with sound artist Andrea Williams.
SleepWalks: A CatNap is an evening of relaxation and lucid dreaming that aims to awaken your creativity and dreams.
We will share mugwort tea, essential oils, snacks, and a brief gong bath to enter a state of restfulness. Then there will be a SleepWalks 'CatNap', a live 45-minute electronic music soundscape with a different theme for each workshop to facilitate lucid dreaming on a particular topic to share about with the group afterwards.
Williams will create sounds from field recordings, live samples of the room resonance, and various electronically processed acoustic instruments, to create an extended musical composition for the audience who are encouraged to sleep in the performance space.
On June 7th the theme is Travelogue of Memory, a connection to places and the self.
On June 21st, the theme is Water, a sense of connectedness to our local waterways.
CatNaps encourage lucid dreaming in a relaxed state, as well as full dreaming for those who can fall asleep more easily. CatNaps are an abbreviated version of the project SleepWalks, where participants sleep overnight in a space with an improvised 8-hour electronic music performance by Andrea Williams and Lee Pembleton, and often collaborative dreams take place.
The goal of the long-term project, SleepWalks, is to compose engaging and collaborative soundwalks for dreamers; to compose soundwalk experiences in participants' dreams. CatNaps allow the project to be performed more broadly, as currently the duo of Pembleton and Williams live in separate cities. During both SleepWalks and CatNaps, the dreamscapes are created using field recordings collected from around the world.
Sleepwalks has been performed at numerous venues including Issue Project Room, NYC; Diapason Gallery, NYC; and Mills College, Oakland, CA as part of The Deep Listening Institute's Dream Festival. SleepWalks members include: musicians, Andrea Williams and Lee Pembleton, and scientist, Todd Anderson. Most recently, SleepWalks received an Arts Center of the Capital Region/NYSCA grant to perform SleepWalks: The Body of Dreams (with Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company): an art exhibit and multimedia dance performance created from the collaborative dreams of SleepWalks participants.
Sound artist, Andrea Williams, utilizes site-specific elements and perceptual cues to reveal the unseen connections between people and their environment. Her compositions make use of field recordings, instruments, computer technologies and the sound of the performance space itself. She has led soundwalks based on concepts of acoustic ecology and Deep Listening in NYC, San Francisco, and also in people's dreams in the collaborative project called SleepWalks. She has shown and performed both solo and with various musicians and artists at galleries and alternative spaces internationally, such as the Whitney Museum, Eyebeam, Roulette, The Kitchen, Children’s Creativity Museum, NPR, and the Mamori sound artist residency in the Amazon rainforest. Andrea has created soundscapes and video art for Hope Mohr Dance at Stanford University, Alyce Finwall Dance Theater at the Joyce Theater in NYC, and Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company at the Chapel + Cultural Center in Troy, NY. She is a board member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, a yoga teacher, and she is studying our connection to water via soundwalks as a Ph.D. candidate in Electronic Arts at RPI in Troy, NY.
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/// FAQ ///
What do I need to bring?
Please bring comfy bedding that you can get cozy on for about 45 minutes.
I might arrive late. Is this ok?
The event begins at 8pm sharp with mugwort tea and other preparations offered for relaxation. Due to the fact that some participants may fall asleep during the performance, and we do not want to disturb them for the 45 minutes, we will be closing the doors at 8:30pm.
Where do I park?
In the Parking Lot on the left just before the Lodge, the event will be held in the lodge.
A Two-Part Series on Tapping into
Lucid Dreaming For Creativity
with Andrea Williams
(event starts promptly at 8pm)
$25 for series or $15 for individual workshop in advance
$30 and $20 respectively at the door
**You are invited to stay later on June 7th to celebrate Andrea's Birthday! Dance party after the CatNap with DJ spinning records until midnight!**
TICKETS: 10-linda-way.ticketleap.co
We spend about one-third of our lives sleeping and dreaming, yet scientists still don't know exactly why. In an average lifespan of 77 years that is 25 years of our lives. Many cultures find wisdom in dreams.
Some theorists propose that before the industrial age, in the United States we would fall asleep at night for just a few hours, and then wake up and share dreams together before the second sleep of the night.
Bring your sleeping bags, pillows and comfy blankets to Stable Gate Farm and Winery for a first sleep–a 'catnap'– with sound artist Andrea Williams.
SleepWalks: A CatNap is an evening of relaxation and lucid dreaming that aims to awaken your creativity and dreams.
We will share mugwort tea, essential oils, snacks, and a brief gong bath to enter a state of restfulness. Then there will be a SleepWalks 'CatNap', a live 45-minute electronic music soundscape with a different theme for each workshop to facilitate lucid dreaming on a particular topic to share about with the group afterwards.
Williams will create sounds from field recordings, live samples of the room resonance, and various electronically processed acoustic instruments, to create an extended musical composition for the audience who are encouraged to sleep in the performance space.
On June 7th the theme is Travelogue of Memory, a connection to places and the self.
On June 21st, the theme is Water, a sense of connectedness to our local waterways.
CatNaps encourage lucid dreaming in a relaxed state, as well as full dreaming for those who can fall asleep more easily. CatNaps are an abbreviated version of the project SleepWalks, where participants sleep overnight in a space with an improvised 8-hour electronic music performance by Andrea Williams and Lee Pembleton, and often collaborative dreams take place.
The goal of the long-term project, SleepWalks, is to compose engaging and collaborative soundwalks for dreamers; to compose soundwalk experiences in participants' dreams. CatNaps allow the project to be performed more broadly, as currently the duo of Pembleton and Williams live in separate cities. During both SleepWalks and CatNaps, the dreamscapes are created using field recordings collected from around the world.
Sleepwalks has been performed at numerous venues including Issue Project Room, NYC; Diapason Gallery, NYC; and Mills College, Oakland, CA as part of The Deep Listening Institute's Dream Festival. SleepWalks members include: musicians, Andrea Williams and Lee Pembleton, and scientist, Todd Anderson. Most recently, SleepWalks received an Arts Center of the Capital Region/NYSCA grant to perform SleepWalks: The Body of Dreams (with Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company): an art exhibit and multimedia dance performance created from the collaborative dreams of SleepWalks participants.
Sound artist, Andrea Williams, utilizes site-specific elements and perceptual cues to reveal the unseen connections between people and their environment. Her compositions make use of field recordings, instruments, computer technologies and the sound of the performance space itself. She has led soundwalks based on concepts of acoustic ecology and Deep Listening in NYC, San Francisco, and also in people's dreams in the collaborative project called SleepWalks. She has shown and performed both solo and with various musicians and artists at galleries and alternative spaces internationally, such as the Whitney Museum, Eyebeam, Roulette, The Kitchen, Children’s Creativity Museum, NPR, and the Mamori sound artist residency in the Amazon rainforest. Andrea has created soundscapes and video art for Hope Mohr Dance at Stanford University, Alyce Finwall Dance Theater at the Joyce Theater in NYC, and Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company at the Chapel + Cultural Center in Troy, NY. She is a board member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, a yoga teacher, and she is studying our connection to water via soundwalks as a Ph.D. candidate in Electronic Arts at RPI in Troy, NY.
http://
/// FAQ ///
What do I need to bring?
Please bring comfy bedding that you can get cozy on for about 45 minutes.
I might arrive late. Is this ok?
The event begins at 8pm sharp with mugwort tea and other preparations offered for relaxation. Due to the fact that some participants may fall asleep during the performance, and we do not want to disturb them for the 45 minutes, we will be closing the doors at 8:30pm.
Where do I park?
In the Parking Lot on the left just before the Lodge, the event will be held in the lodge.
