SleepWalks: November 2018

Monday, November 12, 2018

QUEENS MUSEUM

Hello!

SleepWalks is Lee Pembleton and Andrea Williams. We create improvised soundscapes of our field-recordings to create surreal-scapes for sleeping dreamers. Often when dreamers sleep in the same location for a SleepWalks, they share collaborative dreams. Please join our virtual residency at the Queens Museum as part of the Saunter, Trek, Escort, Parade (S.T.E.P.) exhibit.

You can download our soundscape SleepWalks: The Body of Dreams (about 45 minutes long) for listening here from Google Drive:

SleepWalks: The Body of Dreams

When you wake up, please write down your dreams or lucid imagery in your online Dream Journal (link below). Also you can upload any drawings of dreams that you might like to share in there as well:

SleepWalks Dream Journal

We will be posting the dream journal entries on this site www.sleepwalks.org until December 15th.

Thank you for sharing!

<3
Andrea and Lee
SleepWalks

SleepWalks overnight 9/29/2018 at Flux Factory, Long Island City, NYC

SLEEPWALKS

On September 29th, 2018, Lee Pembleton and Andrea Williams performed a SleepWalks overnight at Flux Factory, an art gallery in Long Island City, NYC for the closing night of the S.T.E.P. exhibit. The theme we chose for the night for the 8-hours of our improvised field-recordings was "cities and a rising flood line for NYC. A sense of despair, yet hope and renewal." In the morning, we shared breakfast and talked about our dreams and what dreams are for. Super lovely conversation! Thank you to the curators and to the SleepWalks participants! <3

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