Somnium

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Labels: Hypnos, Soundscape

DVD-video disc with music only, no picture (other than the menus). The DVD-video format was used because the storage of 7 hours of continuous audio on one side of one disc. It is a stereo (two channel) audio program.

"Somnium" is a single continuous track separated into three parts, a 7-hour sleep concert recording.

Assembled and edited from August 1999 to July 2000, using sound elements recorded between 1994 and 2000 by Robert Rich.

Instrumental sounds include analog and digital electronics, processed flutes and acoustic piano, lap steel guitar with Sustainiac Model B, chimes and bowed metal. Environmental sounds recorded by Robert Rich in California, Iowa, Minnesota, Washington and Mexico. Additional sounds include electric fish (Apteronotus leptorhyncus) recorded at Scripps Institute with the assistance of Calvin Wong, and processed environments from the library of Andy Wiskes. Authored at EP Visual in Philadelphia by Pete Meyers and Adam Peterson.

© 2000 Robert Rich

Liner notes include: Credits, Listening Tips, 'Somnium and the Sleep Concert' by Robert Rich and Technical Notes.