Piano for Sleeping

My work explores the embodied immediacy of music and works to hone its corporal prowess to find a tangible meeting ground for the mind and body. My musical sensibilities are inclined towards a rhythmically driven sound that moves and communicates with the body without the necessity for the composition to be digested intellectually. Recently, I’ve been composing music designed for sleeping. Just as a boisterous groove can unlock the body and move it to dance, slow, repetitive rhythms can also imbue feelings of safety and familiarity that can prepare and induce the brain’s sleep response. To do this, I work towards simulating the experience of breathing, which is very rhythmic, through tactical melodic movement and interval placement that plays with tension and resolution, like the rise and fall of a chest.

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