creating a track or an album can be a challenge in itself. but creating
an epic ‘sleep album’ is quite another one. how does a composer keep
their work intense when it lasts for such a long time? does intensity
really matter when the listener is supposed to sleep anyway? yes, it
matters. the sleep rhythm for each listener is different and it
individually varies from night to night. you listen, then you dive into
sleep, you dream while the music gently rubs your subconscious. when you
wake up the music is still there. despite the fact that you find
yourself in the sleep state, you still pay attention to the music.
on april 1st 2016 danish sound artist karsten pflum and the library of
herlev invited a limited audience into nine hours of otherwordly ambient
soundscapes in a darkened environment. to let this audience dive into
their subconscious mind, the long sleep journey was initiated by a half
hour of body scan meditation led by two professional mindfulness
instructors. rather than being a social concert experience, this event
was an individual one, where the listener absorbed the electronic sounds
from the composer, somewhere in the border between sleep and
wakefulness - in the dream state. as karsten sent the first waves of
ambient sound transmissions into the silent room of pale blue darkness,
the atmosphere was gentle and harmonic, reminiscent of the tranquility
surrounding the cradle of an infant. in the opening hours the sound work
was gently loud, but as evening turned into night, the ambient waves
softened as the audience drifted from light sleep into deep sleep. as
the first signs of sunlight gently illuminated the room, the soundscapes
took a step from subconscious ambient spheres into discreet rhythm
textures. as the pulse of the beat gently increased the music turned
from deep ambient into chill-out friendly idm. slowly the atmosphere of
the library changed from night to day as people were lifted to the upper
levels of the sleep state. as the smell of coffee and bread saturated
the room, karsten slowly ended this lengthy ambient journey. leaving the
library twelve hours later, the audience had experienced the power of
ambient music consumed in a sleep state with meditation being their
invisible friend for diving deep into the subconscious. this concert
reached more than 650.000 user walls on facebook with more than 10.000
interested to attend. the 80 tickets for the show on september 2nd, 2016
were sold in less than one minute.
karsten’s approach to creating an album based on this event involved
using a broad pallet of electronic equipment to create otherworldly
soundscapes dedicated to the borderlands between sleep and wakefulness.
soon after the listener starts the nine hour sonic voyage, the sound of a
magick box fades in. whether the sound of the lullaby awakes a feeling
of warmth and comfort or it creates horrific nightmares, is the first
question for the brain to process. nevertheless the listeners entering
the realms of mr. pflum's work will experience a sleep zone, they have
never experienced - and never will again - unless they repeat the
journey. and they probably will - again and again. have a pleasant
journey!
Tracklist:1. Karsten Pflum - Part 1 Prolouge (A Tale About Gnomes) (28:34)
2. Karsten Pflum - Part 2 Has Been (34:30)
3. Karsten Pflum - Part 3 Disconnection (46:25)
4. Karsten Pflum - Part 4 Osiris Touching Me (50:23)
5. Karsten Pflum - Part 5 Stary Night (42:47)
6. Karsten Pflum - Part 6 the Sleepwald (34:37)
7. Karsten Pflum - Part 7 Drowning Cathedral (27:33)
8. Karsten Pflum - Part 8 Reincarnate (44:17)
9. Karsten Pflum - Part 9 Timeshift Granularity (50:57)
10. Karsten Pflum - Part 10 Just Look at Your Hands (47:11)
11. Karsten Pflum - Part 11 Will It Surface (29:51)
12. Karsten Pflum - Part 12 Better Be on Your Way (50:33)
13. Karsten Pflum - Part 13 Erana's Peace (32:53)
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