There's a freedom in letting go
Music adapted from Isabel Allende's Meditative Story, "From great loss, a great freedom."A quiet stirring of high strings is followed by an exhale of bass and cello. The grounding chords of a piano th...
25 Helmi 202338min
Invitation to stillness
Today's Sleep Song is an invitation to explore stillness. Picture yourself standing in a body of water and not wanting to create any ripples, gently centered, quiet, and surrounded by the seductive lu...
10 Helmi 202330min
Slow drift
Like a fuzzy shag carpet metronome, this Sleep Song begins with the metered pads of a synth rippling out, and reverberating to the edge of awareness. A reassuring celeste seems to voice that it's trul...
27 Tammi 202341min
Take refuge here
Can you zoom in and notice the fine sounds of finger pads pressing keys, the piano's felted hammers making contact? Today's Sleep Song is an invitation to play with perspective. Written during a Calif...
13 Tammi 202330min
Solstice sky
Like the chime of Dickensian church bells, or the twinkling of a star high in the heavens, piercing the night sky, this Sleep Song opens with a sonic beacon. Synth pads sparkle and ignite, like dancin...
23 Joulu 20221h
Generative unfolding
For this week's Sleep Song, composer Eduardo Rivera experiments with generative synthesis, a concept in which digital sounds influence each other with very little human interaction. Chords swell and f...
9 Joulu 202229min
Falling into vinyl
When you’re too sleepy to turn the record over on the turntable, new melodies start to emerge from beyond the crackle of the vinyl. As the record spins slowly, it opens a doorway to a soft and nostalg...
25 Marras 20221h 1min
Time stretching
Composer Eduardo Rivera tells us that he recorded this week's Sleep Song by time-stretching a ten-minute piano piece, leaving behind an overlay, like vellum gently settled over sepia-toned photos, or ...
11 Marras 202229min
