SleepWalks

SleepWalks	SLEEPWALKS performance by Lee Pembleton and Andrea Williams Parsons Hall Project Space Saturday, May 14, 9pm-9am Join The MVM for the first full-run of SLEEPWALKS in Massachussetts, an overnight sound performance taking place at Parsons Hall Project Space in Holyoke. SLEEPWALKS explores 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 is to create soundwalks for dreamers. From 9pm-11pm there will be an opening for Sleepwalks with wine, crackers, and cheese. Please arrive before 11pm, as that is when doors will close. We will be providing water; there is a restroom with a sink; and there will be muffins served in the morning at 8am. Please bring your own bedding and toiletries, eyemasks, etc. 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. The goal of this long-term project is to compose soundwalk experiences for dreamers. Currently SleepWalks is in its second year of a scheduled five devoted to researching the effect of sound on dreams. At the end of this period they hope to begin composing complex guided dream pieces based on their research. 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. Please enjoy this ear-tasty sampling they recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, in January 2009. Silver (wav) Silver (mp3) And these samples, chopped out by the always brilliant and friendly Andrea, into song-like segments from a 2010 show at the Royal Panini Festival in SF. 02 (mp3) 03 (mp3) 04b (mp3) 05 (mp3) 06 (mp3) 07 (mp3) BIOS: Lee Pembleton is a musician and artist currently living knowmadically. His work explores sound environments and performative installations. Over the past two decades he has obsessively recorded his daily life. These recordings are edited into sampled snippets triggered by keyboards, sensors, randomizers, and software, allowing him to use his lived environment as his instrument. He is a member of several contemporary music/performance ensembles & jazz bands along with the occasional rock, psychedelic & folk group. He has performed his works at a variety of venues, including the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the 55 Club, Fringe Exhibitions, Milk of Burgundy, Diapason Gallery, the Littlefield Concert Hall, Roulette, The Berlin Office, Koh-i-noor Gallery, and the 2010 Sonic Circuits Festival. He is a founding member of the arts collaboratives, 23E Studios and Earthbound Moon. http://vime.org; http://23estudios.com; http://earthboundmoon.com Andrea Williams is a sound artist and composer currently living in Oakland, CA. She 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 in New York and the Bay Area, and has shown and performed both solo and with various musicians at galleries and alternative spaces, most recently the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Diapason Gallery, NPR, Fountain Miami Art Fair, and the Mamori sound artist residency in the Amazon rainforest. Andrea is a founding member of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology and is currently attending Mills College in California for her MFA in Electronic Music and Media http://listeninglistening.com
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SLEEPWALKS
performance by Lee Pembleton and Andrea Williams
Parsons Hall Project Space
Saturday, May 14, 9pm-9am

Join The MVM for the first full-run of SLEEPWALKS in Massachussetts, an overnight sound performance taking place at Parsons Hall Project Space in Holyoke.

SLEEPWALKS explores 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 is to create soundwalks for dreamers.

From 9pm-11pm there will be an opening for Sleepwalks with wine, crackers, and cheese. Please arrive before 11pm, as that is when doors will close.
We will be providing water; there is a restroom with a sink; and there will be muffins served in the morning at 8am. Please bring your own bedding and toiletries, eyemasks, etc.

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. The goal of this long-term project is to compose soundwalk experiences for dreamers. Currently SleepWalks is in its second year of a scheduled five devoted to researching the effect of sound on dreams. At the end of this period they hope to begin composing complex guided dream pieces based on their research.

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.

Please enjoy this ear-tasty sampling they recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, in January 2009.

Silver (wav)

Silver (mp3)

And these samples, chopped out by the always brilliant and friendly Andrea, into song-like segments from a 2010 show at the Royal Panini Festival in SF.

02 (mp3)

03 (mp3)

04b (mp3)

05 (mp3)

06 (mp3)

07 (mp3)

BIOS:

Lee Pembleton is a musician and artist currently living knowmadically. His work explores sound environments and performative installations. Over the past two decades he has obsessively recorded his daily life. These recordings are edited into sampled snippets triggered by keyboards, sensors, randomizers, and software, allowing him to use his lived environment as his instrument. He is a member of several contemporary music/performance ensembles & jazz bands along with the occasional rock, psychedelic & folk group. He has performed his works at a variety of venues, including the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the 55 Club, Fringe Exhibitions, Milk of Burgundy, Diapason Gallery, the Littlefield Concert Hall, Roulette, The Berlin Office, Koh-i-noor Gallery, and the 2010 Sonic Circuits Festival. He is a founding member of the arts collaboratives, 23E Studios and Earthbound Moon.
http://vime.org; http://23estudios.com; http://earthboundmoon.com

Andrea Williams is a sound artist and composer currently living in Oakland, CA. She 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 in New York and the Bay Area, and has shown and performed both solo and with various musicians at galleries and alternative spaces, most recently the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Diapason Gallery, NPR, Fountain Miami Art Fair, and the Mamori sound artist residency in the Amazon rainforest. Andrea is a founding member of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology and is currently attending Mills College in California for her MFA in Electronic Music and Media
http://listeninglistening.com

All materials generated by The Museum of Viral Memory are free for the butchering under a creative commons license. Some items generated by others which we feature here are copyright protected. This is clearly stated when it is the case.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.