{"id":293,"date":"2009-04-11T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w174.i8u.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2010-04-05T01:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T01:22:48","slug":"sommeil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans 04.19.2009 – Sommeil"},"content":{"rendered":"

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April 11.09<\/p>\n

beginning at 10:00 pm on Saturday April 11th and ending at 7:00 am on Sunday April 12th<\/p>\n

$15 including breakfast.\u00a0 All participants are asked to provide their own sleeping bag and pillow.
\nYou can also spend meditation time in the Sleep Space on April 11th from noon till 9:00 pm: $5 per hour and $3 per half hour. From 6:00-9:00 pm the gallery will participate in the St Claude Arts District Gallery Opening Saturday. All proceeds benefit Antenna Gallery.<\/p>\n

Antenna Gallery
\n3161 Burgundy St
\nNew Orleans, LA
\n70117 in the Bywater.<\/p>\n

in the heart of the St Claude Arts District.
\nTanner Menard,<\/a> Antenna Gallery<\/a> and Experimedia Records presents Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep, an international collaborative experiment. Sommeil will be an all-night event beginning at 10:00 pm on Saturday April 11th and ending on Sunday April 12th at 7:00 am.<\/p>\n

Participants are asked to slowly fall asleep while live ambient and environmental music is performed through the night by Tanner Menard. i8u’s circadian will\u00a0 start off the evening, alongside Tanner Menard’s piano recordings and Mathieu Rhulmann’s baby cooing.<\/p>\n

Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep will be Menard\u2019s reinterpretation of the sleep concert experiment, first created by Robert Rich in 1982 and will be presented at the Antenna Gallery 3161 Burgundy
\nThe concert will be realized with Rich\u2019s permission and guidance. Sleep concerts are all-night events in which the audience is asked to attend the concert with a sleeping bag and pillow and to fall asleep while a slowly unfolding sonic texture evolves over the course of the night and into the morning. People attending
\nthe event are asked to be willing to sleep during the event or at least to remain silent during the course of the nine hour experience.<\/p>\n

Not merely a recreation of Rich\u2019s original idea, Sommeil is a conceptual, global remix of a performance type that addresses one of the most basic functionalities of ambient and environmental sound; music by which to sleep.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of remix and the Creative Commons movement, Menard, a Louisiana native, has compiled submissions of audio material for the concert from nearly seventy artists across the globe.
\nThese artists answered a call for submissions marketed online by Experimedia Records which asked for music and field recording to be used, remixed and mashed up during this nocturnal event.
\nSubmissions include drones, found sound, recordings of natural and unnatural environments and synthetic music created on synthesizers and computers. Submitters have included radio scientists,
\ngeologists, psychologists, sound artists, musicians, composers, installation artists as well as several well known figures in the ambient music scene. During the course of the evening, Menard
\nwill remix these sleep submissions into a constantly evolving sonic texture that will lull the audience to sleep. A quad-channel surround sound system will be provided by Piety St Studios for maximum sonic enhancement of the sleep space and ambient video lighting will be provided in the form of a video loop by the internationally acclaimed VJ CHIKA. Experimedia Records has generously agreed to release multiple out takes from this concert on its Internet label under a free Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n

Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep will be nine hours of uninterrupted music beginning at 10:00 pm on Saturday April 11th and endingat 7:00 am on Sunday April 12th at Antenna Gallery . Tickets to
\nthe evening event will be $15 and will include a light breakfast at waking time. During the day of April 11th Antenna Gallery will be opening the space to allow people who do not wish to sleep through the night to hear the original submissions from the international community of artists. We are asking $5 per hour toexperience the meditative environment of the sleep space and $3 per half an hour from noon to 9:00 pm on Saturday April 11th.<\/p>\n

At 6 pm we will also be participating in the St Claude Gallery Opening that falls on the second Saturday of each month. All proceeds will benefit Antenna Gallery. Please visit tannermenard. archaichorizon.com to follow the event as it unfolds.<\/p>\n

CURATOR AND SOUND ARTIST<\/p>\n

Tanner Menard was born on September 20th, 1978 the same month that Brian Eno published his essay entitled \u2018Ambient Music\u2019. Cosmically connected to this conceptual shift in musical consciousness, Menard\u2019s music has always soared over minimalist and ambient landscapes. At the age of 11 Menard composed his first works for piano and quickly established a reputation as a composer of minimalist music for orchestral forces. His work joe\u2019s last mix\u2019 has been performed around the globe at a number
\nof distinguished festivals and was released in 2003 on Kafua Records in Japan. In 2002 his sonic world was shaken by his experience working with Naut Human, the well known Curator and label owner at Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco. There he discovered the world of ambient and experimental electronic music. In 2005 he served as an artist in residence at Arizona State University where he collaborated with Jeph Jerman, Gary Hill and Daniel Bernard Romain for his installation \u2018envyronie\u2019 which
\ncombined orchestra, live electronics and desert recordings. His collaboration with Jerman inspired a series of environmentally based works and has subsequently marked the departure from
\nhis classical and experimental backgrounds in favor of a world of ambient landscapes and piano inspired sound meditations. Menard\u2019s music is released on Install Records, Archaic Horizon net
\nlabel, Friendly Virus net label, Kafua Records and Experimedia (tbr) and his orchestral music has been published by Loose Filter Music. His music has also appeared on the radio, on tv, in plays,
\nart galleries and major concert halls across the world and his blog \u2018Tanner Menard\u2019 is rapidly gaining international notoriety for such collaborations as Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep and reviews and
\ninterviews with an international pool of artists and label owners.<\/p>\n

SUBMISSIONS<\/p>\n

Tanner Menard and Experimedia Records have assembled a roster of nearly seventy artists from around the globe including radio scientists, geologists, psychologists, sound artists, musicians, composers, installation artists as well as several well known figures in the ambient music scene. These artists submitted material for Menard to remix during the course of Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep.<\/p>\n

Submissions include drones, found sound, recordings of natural and unnatural environments and synthetic music created on synthesizers and computers. A complete list of artists will be available
\nat the concert and will later be published on Tanner Menard\u2019s blog. Select works, remixed by Menard will appear on a release on Experimedia Records in the months following the event.<\/p>\n

VIDEO ARTIST<\/p>\n

CHiKA is a graphic designer and a live computer visuals artist working within New York\u2019s expanding cinema community and VJ scene. Her videos implement geometric minimalist patterns and
\noriginal graphics in unique, repetitive combinations. She has performed at The Museum of Modern Art, The Hammer Museum, Mutek, The Mapping Festival, Decibel Festival, the Centre d\u2019Art Contemporain Gen\u00e8ve , Platform Bohenstrasses, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Maisonneuve, Asia Contemporary Week, San Francisco
\nArt Institute, Eyebeam, Monkeytown, The Issue Project, Galapagos Art Space, Tonic, Eyewash as well as private parties, festivals, events, galleries and night clubs. Since CHiKA started performing live in the summer of 2004, she has become very active in the experimental music and video underground scene in NYC. She is a member of the Share community, which is an organization dedicated to supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange in new media communities. The first SHARE evening happened in New York in 2001. There are now about 20 SHARE communities across the world. She was recently featured on Club Chroma (www.Joost.com), Eyewash 3 DVD by Forward Motion Theater and published in Super 10, Art Book in 2008. CHiKA also collaborates with electronic musicians and DJs on various projects. Log Log on to http:\/\/www.imagima.com for more information.<\/p>\n

GALLERY<\/p>\n

Antenna is operated by the artist-run non-profit collective Press Street who\u2019s mission is to promote art and literature in the community through dynamic projects, collaborations and publications.
\nAntenna is located at 3161 Burgundy St New Orleans, LA70117 in the Bywater.<\/p>\n

LABEL<\/p>\n

Experimedia is a record label, arts organization, and online record shop based out of Ohio, United States which is involved in the digital and physical publication, promotion, and distribution of
\nexploratory music and visual arts. The Experimedia catalog covers a broad stylistic palette of exploratory music including ambient, electronica, electro-acoustic, experimental, dance, sound-art, microsound, glitch, avant-garde, abstract, minimalist, and more.<\/p>\n

The Experimedia online mailorder shop has recently expanded to include the availability of releases from other select labels and artists. This is intended to make more conveniently available some
\nof the worlds most innovative experimental music. By including labels from overseas countries such as Japan, England, Germany, Austria, Australia, and many others we intend to make music from
\naround the globe and within the United States more readily and conveniently available throughout the world. Experimedia also acts as a community based platform for creative and conceptual media projects based upon collaborative research and project development efforts. The projects.experimedia.net domain
\nand the Experimedia Projects Wiki have been developed to facilitate the collaborative information gathering and organization for these research efforts. The goal is that the Projects Wiki will
\nbecome a large resource of relevant information to the exploratory sound and visual arts community as well as a historical account of the collaborative efforts involved with Experimedia related projects.
\nIf you are an artist interested in contributing research datato our Projects Wiki or would like to initiate and curate a project within our framework please feel free to contact Experimedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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