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The Sleep In Opera (CD) released on 24 March

The Sleep In Opera

03/24/2017

Stockholm / Sweden

The Sublunar Society

Sublunar announces the long-awaited release of The Sleep in Opera on CD, by the French artist and composer Valérie Vivancos, aka Ocean Viva Silver. Her work is mainly focused on experimental composition, performance scores, situations and writing protocols that interweave life and fiction and collect “curious” experiences.

In 2002, the Contemplation Room project brought together international artists for a show at the Overgaden gallery and events in various public spaces in Copenhagen. The Sleep in Opera invited the audience to take part in a five nights sleep performance in a bunker under the Hans Christian Ørstedn park.

The background research had taken place in a neurological center specialised in sleep disorders. Some uncanny medical tales gathered at the hospital were told to the participants as bedtime stories. Simple techniques to avoid snoring were applied in reverse to ensure the audience would deliver a collective audio performance. The sound was diffused in real time in the park above. Straight after the event, a short track was composed as a documentation.

In 2016, the original recordings, (exclusively sleep sounds) were excavated and used to re-compose a subjective narrative echoing the physiological and psychological agitation of sleep. For more info, click here.

Stream here, on SpotifyTidalDeezerApple Music etc. Available for download here, from iTunesBandcamp and all Amazon sites.

The CD will be out on March 24 

 

 

 

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