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Perpetual

July 15, 2014

Ambient / Electronic

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8-hour sequel to Rich's groundbreaking "Somnium", based on his all-night sleep concerts, on Blu-ray or download (Blu-ray disc includes the 7-hour original Somnium for 15 hours total duration.) The Blu-ray version of "Perpetual" has full resolution 16 bit 48 kHz audio, and contains both the 8-hour "Perpetual" and the 7-hour original "Somnium." The download of "Perpetual" available through CD Baby is divided into 80 minutes chunks (for technical reasons) and uses CD-resolution (16 bit 44.1 kHz) files. These should segue into each other seamlessly on your computer, although a soft click might be audible depending on the software. =================== The Sleep Concert has been one of the dominant threads in my musical journey through life. It marked my first solo concert ever, in January 1982, in the lounge of a Stanford University dormitory. It became a sort of trademark for me, even as I explored a range of dynamic music throughout my career. Occasionally I feel an urge to return to this slow-motion core of my creative heart, and occasionally the world comes back to remind me that I will always be connected to sonic explorations at the edges of perception, trance consciousness, dreams, altered states, communal ritual. I returned to making all-night music when the Unsound Festival invited me to perform a sleep concert in Krakow Poland, October 2013. This would be my first sleep concert in ten years. I decided to create new textural soundscapes to use in this performance, to reinvigorate the concept for a new generation, a new millennium. After spending at least six months developing long evolving textures for the performance in Krakow, I proceeded to hone the material into a new long-form work, a sequel to the 7-hour long Somnium from 2001. The original DVD authoring process for Somnium posed numerous technical challenges. Luckily we have new technologies that can handle more data, so we were able to overcome some of those challenges on this Blu-ray disc. The original full resolution Somnium (at 16 bit, 48 kHz), fits alongside its sequel Perpetual on a single disc for a full 15 hours of music.

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