SLEEP: Tranquility Base – Alva Noto Remodel

“SLEEP: Tranquility Base” is a revision which offers a glimpse into the original SLEEP-material from an electronic perspective. “Tranquility Base” is the site on the Moon where, in July 1969, humans landed and walked on a celestial body other than Earth for the first time. With this in mind, the EP functions as a vessel that disconnects and travels through the body of work, allowing art to provide something which resembles peace within ourselves. – Max Richter
“I’ve already been following Max Richter's work for many years now, so I felt all the more honoured to be able to do a remodel for him.
I’ve tried to combine the original, which is played largely on classical instruments, with an electronic score, kind of transposing it into an electronic sound world. I derived my inspiration from early science-fiction novels by Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and its notion of a computer that dreams and possesses an independent consciousness (keyword ‘ghost in the machine’) was a theme that particularly resonated, which I’ve tried to bring out in the remodel.” – Alva Noto
“SLEEP is a kind of counter argument to what’s going on in the world. [My partner] Yulia and I have talked about it as protest music. It’s a sort of alternative proposition to how things could be or how things are… towards the world we’re living in and helps to shine a light on the things we can do better. The original thing which made us want to make this piece was a sense of being oversaturated – with data, with information – overstimulated… All of that is just worse now, there’s more of the same – much more of the same – and that makes the piece continually relevant.” – Max Richter

Listen to the Alva Noto Remodel: https://dg.lnk.to/TranquilityBase_Alv...
Listen to TRANQUILITY BASE: https://dg.lnk.to/SLEEPtranquilitybase
Listen to SLEEP: https://dg.lnk.to/sleep-8hours
Watch the SLEEP DOCUMENTARY: https://stage.plus/Sleep
Download the SLEEP APP: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/sleep-b.