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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Nov 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 Nov 202229min
