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On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Jeremy Bible <experimedia@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 98 lines Our Friend Tanner Menard from New Orleans is curating a very
> Our Friend Tanner Menard from New Orleans is curating a very
> interesting event and your contributions are needed. Read below.
>
> Call for Submissions:
>
> Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep
>
> In early April I will be reinterpreting the sleep concert experiment,
> first created by Robert Rich ( http://robertrich.com/ ) in 1982, at a
> well established gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana. I am doing so
> with Rich's permission and guidance. Sleep concerts as presented by
> Rich are all night events in which the audience is asked to attend the
> concert with a sleeping bag and pillow and to fall asleep while a
> slowly unfolding sonic texture evolves over the course of the night
> and into the morning. This concert will begin at 10 pm and end at 7
> am with tea and breakfast.
>
> Not merely a recreation of Rich's original idea, Sommeil will be a
> global reinterpretation of a performance type that addresses one of
> the most basic functionalities of ambient sound, music by which to
> sleep. One might call this sort of cultural reshuffling a conceptual
> remix. In the spirit of remix and the Creative Commons movement, I am
> looking for submissions of audio material for the concert. This is an
> opportunity for artists from all parts of the globe to help shape the
> next generation of sleep concerts. Experimedia Records has generously
> agreed to release material submitted on its net label under a Creative
> Commons license.
>
> I am interested in the following: field recordings of natural and
> man-made phenomena, unprocessed recordings of musical instruments,
> drones, room ambience, strangely tuned string recordings and any other
> sonic matter that will somehow enhance a glacially ambient landscape
> of sleep music. All submissions should in some way be appropriate for
> an audience that will be sleeping.
>
> The concert will be 9 hours of uninterrupted music. All audio
> submissions may be highly altered through various processors, looped,
> rearranged algorithmically and otherwise manipulated through digital
> means. Basically, I want to create a giant sleepy ambient mash up in
> honor of one of the fathers of ambient music. It is also my hope that
> this concert introduces the people of New Orleans to the incredibly
> creative music of ambient and experimental artists that are
> flourishing all over the world, often unbeknownst to the general
> populace.
>
> Release of the material will either be in a compilation of short
> remixes or in large scale remixes from multiple audio sources. Your
> material will be credited both at the concert in program notes and on
> the release that Experimedia ( http://www.experimedia.net/ ) has
> graciously agreed to publish. All releases will in some way reflect
> how your sonic matter was presented at the live sleep concert.
>
> I plan to blog extensively about this multifaceted
> performance/collaboration. Please contact me personally at
> barely.audible@gmail.com or by searching for Tanner Menard on
> facebook. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
> I would love to get to know everyone who contributes material and
> would love to blog about the audio matter that you submit, previous or
> future releases of your music and anything else that might help in
> promoting your art.
>
> The deadline for submissions is March 12th 2009.
>
> Special thanks to Robert Rich ( http://robertrich.com ), Jeremy Bible
> ( http://jeremybible.com ), Experimedia ( http://www.experimedia.net
> ), Shawn Hall and Antenna ( http://www.antennagallery.org ) Gallery
>
> To learn more about Robert Rich's original sleep concert experiments
> please visit
> http://www.downloadplatform.com/album.php?album=164&Robert+Rich+Somnium
>
> "The first hour or two will be slightly more active than the rest, but
> soon the music will drop away into slow foggy textures and strange
> ambient sounds. At low volumes, these textures can blend into your
> acoustic environment, creating a sort of sonic dislocation, a
> re-focusing of your perceptions. You can use the sound texture as a
> way to focus your attention onto images that arise out of your
> half-sleeping mind. In the transitions between sleep and wake,
> hypnogogic images may become intensified and more vivid. You may also
> become more aware of dreams, and you can observe the different layers
> of perception as you teeter on the edge of consciousness"…Robert Rich
>
> contact : Tanner Menard - barely.audible@gmail.com
>
>
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