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SleepWalks
Friday, August 23rd 9:00 PM-9:00 AM (Sat. Aug. 24th) @ Corpus Callosum 750 Natoma Street, S.F. $20/per person Limited to 12 spots! RESERVE YOUR SPOT securely via PayPal-----------------------------------> Sound artists Andrea Williams and Surabhi Saraf use field recordings to improvise an eight-hour musical composition for an audience that sleeps in the performance space. Participants are encouraged to then journal their dreams in the morning. SleepWalks endeavors to discover the influence of sound on dream worlds. Wine and water will be provided at the reception at 9pm (Doors to the event close at 10pm.), and also tea, coffee, and muffins will be provided in the morning. Please bring your own bedding, pillow, toiletries, comfortable clothes for sleeping in. Spots are limited for this collective dreaming event. RSVP is via PayPal.--------> www.sleepwalks.org During SleepWalks, the performers record the sound samples that they use. Later, by reading the timestamp, they mark possible correlations between the sounds in the improvisation and writings from the participants' dream journals. The goal of this long-term project is to provide an engaging experience for collective dreaming and to compose soundwalks for dreamers. SleepWalks has been performed at numerous venues including Issue Project Room, NYC; Intersection for the Arts, SF; Diapason Gallery, NYC; Parsons Hall Gallery, MA; and Mills College, Oakland, CA as part of The Deep Listening Institute's Dream Festival. Current SleepWalks collaborators: Andrea Williams, Lee Pembleton, Surabhi Saraf, and Todd Anderson. 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. www.sleepwalks.org Sound/images/video below! (with SleepWalks collaborator, Lee Pembleton: |
Limited Spots!
SleepWalks
Friday, August 23rd $20.00
No refunds to participants for no-shows. Doors close at 10pm.
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Quotes from SleepWalks Participants' Journals:
"In my dreams, I was always in this place. The qualities (shape, size, architecture) of this room changed drastically, but somehow it was always here: “The Ensemble Room.” Same carpet all night, and the courtyard, and hallways upstairs. There were different people in my dreams, but [they] always started with a performance (happening or going to happen.) The people in my dreams last night were always cooperating toward some end (usually the performance?). Halloween was coming."
“impossible, impractical, impolite juxtapositions of daily observations of people and things.”
"You guys are amazing! Thank you...I woke during the night, I looked at you guys and thought, "Wow, we are part of something really special..."
"...Her face. Buying. Singing a song to a woman, a song about a little flower swaying in the wind and if it is happy. Another song about a poet leaving a foreign country he dearly loves. He would rather become the grass under water rather than go home."
“impossible, impractical, impolite juxtapositions of daily observations of people and things.”
"You guys are amazing! Thank you...I woke during the night, I looked at you guys and thought, "Wow, we are part of something really special..."
"...Her face. Buying. Singing a song to a woman, a song about a little flower swaying in the wind and if it is happy. Another song about a poet leaving a foreign country he dearly loves. He would rather become the grass under water rather than go home."