After having the idea of lulling our audience into a dreamlike state at the beginning of our piece, we then started to search for, and decide what music we wished to use to achieve this.
Firstly, I downloaded a wide range of music that had been designed to induce sleep. After downloaded over fifty tracks, I began to listen to these to find the most appropriate and potentially most suitable songs to use. As we’ve decided that I will live mix through these songs through the beginning and end of the performance I decided that I needed a varied selection to work with. After collecting an enough appropriate tracks, we decided that we would use the works in progress to explore the affect it would have on the audience.
During the works in progress we received a positive reaction. Although it was audacious to leave the audience to just lie down and listen to music, the music definitely made the audience relaxed. Due to this, we decided that we would add this into our final production. As this was decided, I prepared an already mixed recording of the mixed sleep music for the performance, insuring that we would have it available to use if we were to change our idea of live mixing during the performance.
Mixed Sleep Music:
By Daniel Roberts
