In June 2017, Phonetic Orchestra presented A Single Stunning Gaze in the Place des Vosges at Serralves em Festa in Porto. Beginning in the late evening and ending after sunrise, audience members were provided with mattresses and moved between sleeping and waking states during the 8-hour performance..
Through the sleep concert medium, the listener has the opportunity to interact with the performers and environment in a more personal and singular way, and has the option to come and go (and sleep) as they please. The opportunity to stay for the full 8-hour performance also offers a very unusual and enlightening experience, reinforcing the roles space and time play in the shaping of music and movement.
Below, you can view documentation of a subsequent sleep concert entitled With Her Wanderings Over and Mine Just Beginning, presented at the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, in March 2018.
Through the sleep concert medium, the listener has the opportunity to interact with the performers and environment in a more personal and singular way, and has the option to come and go (and sleep) as they please. The opportunity to stay for the full 8-hour performance also offers a very unusual and enlightening experience, reinforcing the roles space and time play in the shaping of music and movement.
Below, you can view documentation of a subsequent sleep concert entitled With Her Wanderings Over and Mine Just Beginning, presented at the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, in March 2018.