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SleepWalks (2009-ongoing) - an overnight, live electronic music performance
exploring the impact of sound on dreams by playing to a sleeping
audience who then journal about their experience in the morning. The
goal of this long-term project is to compose engaging soundwalks for
dreamers; to compose soundwalk experiences in participants' dreams. Lee Pembleton and Andrea Williams cull sounds from their audio files of
field recordings, live samples of the room resonance, and various
electronically processed acoustic instruments, to create an extended
musical composition for an audience who are encouraged to sleep in the
performance space.
Using Ableton Live audio software on their laptops, Pembleton and
Williams record the sound samples they use during the performance. Later
by reading the timestamp, they make possible correlations between the
sounds in the composition and writings from the participants' dream
journals. 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.
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